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Lost Robots - No

Lost Robots - No

(4 stars)5 Feb 2009

EXPERIMENTAL No. Or yes if you’ve an ear for moody, noodly, semi-improvisational soundscapes. If you haven’t, then you’ll think this debut no more than a racket. However, those attracted to more esoteric aural adventures will be rewarded. ‘Beryllium…

Crystal Stilts - Alight of Night

Crystal Stilts - Alight of Night

(2 stars)5 Feb 2009

INDIE You know Crystal Stilts are hip because they’re from Brooklyn, right? Well, here’s some news for you: whatever your locality, you still need to write a decent melody every now and then. The fivesome’s striking image, and the mean and moody…

Aidan Moffat & The Best-Ofs - How to Get to Heaven From Scotland

Aidan Moffat & The Best-Ofs - How to Get to Heaven From Scotland

(4 stars)5 Feb 2009

LOVE SONGS Lovable little Mr Doom and Gloom, or as he puts it, ‘Glasgow’s alcoholic lo-fi miserablist’ set out to write an album of positive love songs and this, the result, shows Arab Strap’s one-time frontman in playfully sentimental but happily…

Teitur - The Singer

Teitur - The Singer

(3 stars)5 Feb 2009

ORCHESTRAL POP Unashamedly ambitious and epic, this is the first album from the Faroe Islands singer-songwriter to be released in the UK, his third overall. It’s a sumptuous and elegant piece of orchestral pop, a melancholic concept album as much…

Balkanarama

Balkanarama

5 Feb 2009

Balkan nights of gypsy jazz mashed with folk and klezmar tunes are always riotous affairs. This month Balkanarama have live music from Black Cat and Jani Lang Band as well as Balkan beats DJ DD (from Turin), all topped off with Hungary’s Kalam Balogh.

Hint

Hint

5 Feb 2009

Mixed Bizness have yet another special guest this fortnight with a set from Ninja Tune’s Hint. Known for his downtempo, chilled out take on beats and breaks he’s ploughed his own furrow that’s been labelled ‘ruralbeat’. Of late he’s been upping the BPM…

Novalima - Coba Coba

Novalima - Coba Coba

(3 stars)5 Feb 2009

WORLD FUSION This third release for the Lima-London collective Novalima furthers the adventures in Latin form, Afro-Peruvian percussion and electronic tweaks that spawned 2005’s award-winning Afro. Coba Coba, however, bears all the hallmarks of a…

Desire Lines

Desire Lines

5 Feb 2009

Edinburgh University’s Talbot Rice Gallery is closing for refurbishment and has invited various artists to choose a public site on campus in which to create work that reaches out to students, staff and the public. The gallery will produce a guide to…

Golden Hour – Paper Cinema

Golden Hour – Paper Cinema

5 Feb 2009

Be enchanted as Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World is brought to life by the Paper Cinema company. They will be using a cast of hand-drawn marionettes to act out a fairytale version of Professor Challenger’s expedition into the Amazon rainforest.

Twitter - Twestival

Twitter - Twestival

5 Feb 2009

Are you one of these new-fangled cyber-punk internet hippy people? Well, you may be interested to learn that Edinburgh-based users of the young person’s website Twitter, whatever that is, will be gathering together at an event jocularly called a…

Charles Avery The Islanders: An Introduction

5 Feb 2009

If you value true escapism in art, grab this final opportunity to catch the highly recommended introduction to the work of Mull-born artist Charles Avery. Inspired by his upbringing on the island, Avery’s ongoing project explores the flora and fauna of…

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

5 Feb 2009

The manipulate Visual Theatre Festival continues with the return of 1927’s multi-award-winning darkly beautiful journey through sinister visual landscapes, which takes in weird cross-dressing twins, homicidal sisters and gun-toting gingerbread men. The…

Paperweight

Paperweight

5 Feb 2009

This offbeat two-hander won plaudits at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe for its detailed insight into the daily minutiae of office life. The piece tracks the attempt of two workers to battle tedium through childish pranks and endless tea-making, and is set…

The Gussets

The Gussets

5 Feb 2009

Where will we get our fix of fishnet-and-Goretex referencing all-female punk thrills from now on? It’s the last gig for Edinburgh’s Gussets and we’re hoping for some throbbing, man-eating, hedonistic thrills as they bow out in their own inimitable…

Secret Machines

Secret Machines

5 Feb 2009

Dallas prog-rockers Secret Machines released their self-titled third album last month, at once familiar-sounding and yet their spaciest, most epic and Pink Floydian effort so far. Ben Curtis left on good terms to join School of Seven Bells, (playing…

Ray Lamontagne

Ray Lamontagne

5 Feb 2009

The once semi-reclusive, gravelly voiced grizzly bear of Americana folk has come a long way from early gigs where he used to keep his eyes shut throughout. Last year’s Gossip in the Grain was praised as his most open album to date. Royal Concert…

Late of the Pier

Late of the Pier

5 Feb 2009

A shouty, glammy rush of youthful noise, sitting somewhere between Klaxons and Friendly Fires. New rave might be old news, but these Castle Donington boys remind us why we first fell in love with it. Oran Mor, Glasgow, Sun 8 Feb.

Todd Gordon

Todd Gordon

5 Feb 2009

An evening of sweet nothings from the Scottish jazz singer, who brings his smooth, baritone tribute to Johnny Mercer, Moon River to the Days of Wine and Roses. Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Sat 14 Feb.

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