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Music, Issue 588

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Radiohead

Radiohead - In Rainbows

18 Oct 2007

ROCK In Rainbows (www.inrainbows.com) So you’ve registered, paid what you thought your download might be worth (in our case £3.03 plus 45p admin fee – who are you calling cheap?), downloaded, burned, copied it and generally stuck it to ‘The Man’ in…

José González

José González

18 Oct 2007

He’s responsible for one of the biggest albums of last year, yet nobody seems to recognise José González as he sits sipping his beer in the corner of a hip London hotel bar. In fact, the Swedish singer-songwriter is so softly spoken that it is almost…

Iron

Iron & Wine

18 Oct 2007

ALT.COUNTRY Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Mon 29 Oct It would be difficult to find a location more at odds with the music of Sam Beam than the London hotel lobby I meet him in. Swanky, super modern and decked out in stark white clinical decor and…

Larry Coryell

Larry Coryell & Bombay Jazz

18 Oct 2007

JAZZ Tolbooth, Stirling, Sat 20 Oct This is the only Scottish date for a world-jazz quartet featuring the guitar work of Larry Coryell. It’s a rare Scottish outing for the American guitarist, who made his name in the first wave of jazz-rock fusion…

Found

Found

18 Oct 2007

ART POP The Caves, Edinburgh, Thu 1 Nov The latest musical ponies to be welcomed into the warm stables of Fence Records are the Edinburgh art pop collective, Found. According to band member Tommy Perman they’ve found themselves a good home. ‘I guess…

Also Released - Music

18 Oct 2007

• Various Off the Beaten Track (Mister Tramp) A dozen of Scotland’s most delicious new acts including Frightened Rabbit, Beerjacket, Evan Crichton and Galchen shine on this classy showcase from this potential-filled new label. • To Rocco Rot ABC123…

Ash

Ash

18 Oct 2007

ROCK Barrowland, Glasgow, Sun 28 Oct ‘There’s always been a fight within ourselves between wanting to rock out and also wanting to be totally pop,’ says Tim Wheeler, grinning. ‘So there’s always a real tension to what we do.’ And there, in a…

Blueflint

Blueflint

18 Oct 2007

Deborah Arnott and Clare-Louise Neilson, aka banjo duo Blueflint, play haunting bluegrass shot though with a yearning sadness and soothing harmonies. Influenced by old-time Americana they have added a full backing band (including Roddy Neilson, Ian…

Dirty Projectors

Dirty Projectors

18 Oct 2007

INDIE POP Rise Above (Rough Trade) Although the new album from New York singer-songwriter Dave Longstreth is pitched as a from-memory re-interpretation of Black Flag’s Damaged LP, there isn’t much here that will have old punks getting excited. With…

Exposure - Enter Shikari

Exposure - Enter Shikari

18 Oct 2007

Tomorrow’s music today. This issue: Enter Shikari This pioneering St Albans rave-metal outfit’s recent achievements really speak for themselves, but just in case you hadn’t noticed their incredible ascent to award-winning, genre-bending poster boys…

Hitlist - The best classical

Hitlist - The best classical & opera

18 Oct 2007

• BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Thursday Night Series Not long back in Glasgow from a tour to Prague, the orchestra stays in Czech mood for Dvorak’s richly melodic Symphony No 7. Nationalist sounds from closer to home are heard in Eddie McGuire’s…

Hitlist - The best rock, pop, jazz

Hitlist - The best rock, pop, jazz & folk

18 Oct 2007

• LCD Soundsystem James Murphy (pictured) is no stranger to these parts and this welcome return visit comes hot on the heels of their Stateside tour supporting Arcade Fire . . . Barrowland, Glasgow, Mon 22 Oct. (Rock & Pop) • Arcade Fire . . . who…

Idlewild

Idlewild

18 Oct 2007

ROCK A Distant History (Parlophone) Ask anyone who’s ever poured over Cure outtakes or Pulp B-sides. When you get to know a band’s back catalogue intimately, after time it’s the bits in between that hold the greatest fascination. After ten years…

Kuupuu

Kuupuu

18 Oct 2007

EXPERIMENTAL Henry’s Cellar Bar, Edinburgh, Mon 17 Sep There are Moomins on the poster, and something equally other-worldly about Kuupuu’s fractured folk tones. Having wafted all the way from Tampere, Finland, they sound still swathed in dawn mist…

Lockerbie Jazz Festival

Lockerbie Jazz Festival

18 Oct 2007

The Lockerbie festival is establishing a good reputation on the Scottish jazz circuit, and boasts another strong traditional-to-mainstream line-up this year, headed by the likes of saxophonists Jesse Davis and Tommy Smith, pianist Brian Kellock…

Mammal

Mammal

18 Oct 2007

ELECTRONICA 7VWWVW (KFM) Elusive Edinburgh foursome Mammal have been brewing this tasty stew of retro electronica for ages, but it’s worth the wait. Like The Magnificents in a chill-out tent or Boards of Canada jamming with Bob Moog, this mostly…

Martyn Bennett Tribute Show

Martyn Bennett Tribute Show

18 Oct 2007

Martyn Bennett was a driving force in modern Celtic fusion, who brought electronica and samples into the world of traditional music best-known for piping, fiddles and whistles. Sadly he passed away in 2005, and here his own band Cuillin, the Orchestra…

Mr Hudson

Mr Hudson & the Library

18 Oct 2007

The ultimate hybrid, Mr Hudson & the Library mix mournful piano with emotive vocals, acoustic guitar and grime. It’s not a marriage you’d imagine would work, but Mr Hudson creates a startling new sound as Chet Baker-inspired rhythms are underpinned by…

Northern Alliance

Northern Alliance

18 Oct 2007

LO-FI The Hand of God (Fence) Named after Maradona’s infamous goal against England in the ‘86 World Cup, East Lothian lo-fi shamblers Northern Alliance’s fourth LP might seem like a jingoistic poke southwards, but in substance it’s an inward looking…

Old Blind Dogs

Old Blind Dogs

18 Oct 2007

FOLK Four on the Floor (Vertical Records) Old Blind Dogs celebrated their 15th anniversary with a concert in Findhorn in April that featured the current quartet with several former members, including singers Ian F Benzie and Jim Malcolm. The…

Orchestra Baobab

Orchestra Baobab

18 Oct 2007

WORLD Faced with dwindling audiences in the 80s, the members of Orchestra Baobab slid away from the forefront of their native Senegalese music scene, and went their separate ways. World Circuit Records have always dreamt of reuniting the band…

Pat Metheny

Pat Metheny

18 Oct 2007

JAZZ Secret Story (Nonesuch) When Secret Story first came out in 1992, it marked something of a departure in the guitarist’s work. Reaction to it may well depend on what it is about that work that attracts you – the smooth fusioneer or the…

Prefuse 73

Prefuse 73

18 Oct 2007

HIP HOP Preparations (Warp) The beats! Its all about the beats! The essence of hip hop is the rhythms and the rhymes and this album proves that those boundaries are there to be tweaked, twisted and trampled. One Word Extinguisher, the 2003 album…

Reverend and the Makers

Reverend and the Makers

18 Oct 2007

INDIE POP The State of Things (Wall of Sound) So-called by friends because he loves preaching, ‘Reverend’ Jon McClure uses this début collection to fuse workaday Brit-culture musings with stomping indie dance beats. Throbbing, shouty and arrogant…

Roisin Murphy

Roisin Murphy

18 Oct 2007

ELECTRO Overpowered (EMI) A love or hatred of Roisin Murphy’s former band aside, there’s no arguing with the fact that this ex-Moloko vocalist currently makes some of the most sophisticated electro pop around. Boasting catchy melodies, demonic…

Sarah Chang

Sarah Chang

18 Oct 2007

GUEST PERFORMER Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Wed 24 Oct Glasgow’s International Classical series has some impressive names attached to it this season. Alfred Brendel, Kurt Masur, Ian Bostridge and Antonio Pappano are just a few of those who are in…

Sexy Kids

Sexy Kids

18 Oct 2007

INDIE Mono, Glasgow, Mon 8 Oct Glasgow’s Sexy Kids are so brand new they don’t even have a Myspace yet. But trust us, we’d tell you if we knew it. After all, they’ve blessed themselves with just about the last name you want to go googling in good…

Sons & Daughters

Singles & Downloads

18 Oct 2007

Pop music. What’s the point of it all? Why, quite clearly to ensure that the horrifying likes of McFly can continue to be the beneficiaries of monumental marketing campaigns when all their original fans are surely thinking about starter mortgages these…

The Fiery Furnaces

The Fiery Furnaces

18 Oct 2007

ART ROCK Widow City (Thrill Jockey) This is pretty much everything that’s wrong with music, packaged in a relentlessly tedious, overblown and self-important hour of aural torture. Much fêted in cooler-than-thou indie circles, this New York-based…

The Royal We

The Royal We

18 Oct 2007

INDIE POP The Royal We (Geographic) Brevity characterises Glasgow indie darlings The Royal We’s first (and final) album to the letter: it lasts just 15 minutes, contains only eight tracks, and roughly marks the band’s end, the sextet having already…

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