Music, Exposure

Exposure: We Were Promised Jetpacks

The Scottish music scene is enjoying a rich harvest of young bands with big sounds right now. Like their friends Frightened Rabbit and Twilight Sad, We Were Promised Jetpacks boast big tunes, wrenchingly vulnerable vocals over towering guitars and the…

Exposure: Withered Hand

Despite a lyrical admission to listening to death metal bands, Withered Hand makes pensive and pretty 'antifolk' music sprawling with all sorts of questions and quiet conversations while his Neil Young-ish voice mingles joyously with varied…

Exposure: Ingested

If you’re finding metal just isn’t doing it for you any more, why not delve into the brutal world of death metal, a hardcore body blow of sound accompanied by guttural vocals? This fortnight there’s a bumper bill of extreme noise with Manchester’s…

Exposure: Geordi La Force

Mixing intense, glitchy electronics with lush ambient atmospheres, mind-bending guitar shredding and a plethora of ridiculous song titles ('The Dog That Couldn't Piss'), Glasgow's Geordi La Force is one of the more interesting acts to crop up in recent…

Exposure: Sucioperro

Say hello to Sucioperro, if their exotic sounding name hasn’t crossed your path already. They’re the next band to follow in the Ayrshire footsteps left by the inimitable Biffy Clyro, which certainly ain’t any easy thing to do. Borrowing Biffy’s crashing…

Exposure: Zoey Van Goey

Clever, twee and always catchy, Zoey Van Goey have a gentle beauty about their music. It’s very reminiscent of early Belle and Sebastian, the mix of girl/boy vocals and light-footed, catchy pop tunes never failing to put a smile on your face. Forming in…

Exposure: Absent Elk

With their brooding melodies, Brighton contingent Absent Elk have been busy making a debut album worth shouting about. Their Youtube excursions have gained the band a following, most notably including Girls Aloud, who were so bowled over by the band’s…

Exposure: It Hugs Back

It Hugs Back hail from Kent, and will soon serve Glasgow some of their self-described 'soft-centered dream pop'. After touring with artists like Scout Niblett, Monade and New Pornographers, this tender-hearted foursome will now share the bill with…

Exposure: eagleowl

Edinburgh trio eagleowl are chief exponents of slow-burning, affecting, lo-fi folk, and are currently part of a close-knit collective of local musicians centred around DIY label, Fife Kills:. Based on a foundation of mutual support as well as an obvious…

Exposure: Sky Larkin

Bursting into life with bristling energy - like a sunnier Broken Social Scene with a British twist, and much less legs, or a slightly-less maniacal Dinosaur Jr - Leeds-based trio Sky Larkin are fast becoming a force to be reckoned with in terms of their…

Exposure: Citizens

Blurring punk and hardcore ferocity with clever riffage and instrumental experimentation, Glasgow trio Citizens are a particularly proactive component in the city's evolving underground musical landscape, with it's members also currently involved in…

Exposure: 65daysofstatic

Sheffield has given us its fine share of indie-pop (see Arctic Monkeys, Pulp, Richard Hawley), but in the murkier depths of the steel city lurks a more experimental noise rock, full of static and surprise, and blissfully free of kitchen-sink dramas.

Exposure: Unicorn Kid

At just 17, Leith-dwelling wonder-boy Oli Sabin, aka Unicorn Kid, has already had more than a million MySpace users tuning in to his manic brand of pop-eyed toy box techno. He played the London and Glasgow launch parties of teen TV drama Skins, and has…

Exposure: Thomas Truax

A mechanical mastermind, Thomas Truax manipulates random objects into his own bizarre and genius musical instruments, a vision as well as sound that cannot be missed live. While Nick Cave comparisons are understandable, theatrically and voice-wise…

Exposure: Trapped In Kansas

Trapped In Kansas are an Ayr-based quartet with their eyes set on exploring territories far beyond the Coastal town they call home, with intent to display their acute melodic sensibility and complex blend of airy jazziness with truckloads of intricate…

Exposure: Trembling Bells

Bewitching and beguiling, Trembling Bells are the Glasgow folk band whose music conjures up bonfires, nature and Britt Ekland dancing in the buff. For this is a band who forgo a pop rigmarole, harking back to traditional folk roots, telling stories and…

Exposure: The Dawn Chorus

They made the greatest album of 2008 you probably never heard, but it's not too late to love The Dawn Chorus. Taking influence from Bright Eyes and Wilco, their debut, The Big Adventure, is most blissful, fascinating alt-folk since I'm Wide Awake, It's…

Exposure: The King Hats

At first glance, and perhaps even first listen, youthful quartet The King Hats may seem like they're cut from the same cloth as many of the recent indie revivalists. However, live - as anyone who has witnessed the bands' stint at T in The Park or any of…

Exposure: Mark McAnaw

Scotland’s notoriously vibrant folk scene has always bred a conveyor belt of talented musicians willing to strip back to their Celtic roots, and Wishaw acoustic songster Mark McAnaw is gaining notoriety for his adept playing and contemplative…

Exposure: United Fruit

Taking notes from the rawness and haunting melody of grunge era noisemakers such as Sonic Youth, Pixies, and Shellac to name a few, Glasgow four-piece, United Fruit, are currently doing the rounds on the city’s underground scene and making a lasting…

Exposure: Detroit Social Club

Quite simply, Detroit Social Club are the best new band in Britain (even if their name suggests otherwise). They're Kasabian without the unmerited cockiness, the Stones without wrinkles, BRMC without the fade into obscurity. Lead man David Burn explains…

Exposure: Polly Scattergood

The crowds are still fawning over Adele, but already there's another Brit School alumni ready to take on the world, and this one actually has some interesting songs. Away from the tedium of her former schoolmate, Polly Scattergood has been adoringly…

Exposure: Polar Bear

You could call them experimental but we say they're weird and wonderful. Playing jazz for people who love Bjork as much as they do Coltrane, Polar Bear is like listening to many worthwhile if controversial conversations all at once. Drummer and founder…

Exposure: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

New York's The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart make dreamy, shoegazey, noise pop with boy/girl harmonies - like a Galaxie 500 LP album played at 45rpm, or a recording from the fictional Creation Records 1992 Christmas party that saw Ride and Jesus and Mary…

Exposure: Haight-Ashbury

Channelling the musicality and psychedelic nature of the late-sixties, along with a healthy dose of grungy noise and shimmering harmonies, Glasgow trio Haight-Ashbury - named after the district of San Francisco most commonly revered as the epicentre of…