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8 May 2008

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (4AD) This was recorded in a remote cabin in the wilds of Wisconsin and it sounds like it. A gloriously minimal and spectral solo debut from Justin Vernon. Jack Marchment - Corydon and Manjrekar (Benbecula) Inspired…

Jay Haze - Love

Jay Haze - Love & Beyond

(3 stars)8 May 2008

TECHNO SOUL (TurningSpork Records) Jay Haze aka Fuckpony is one of few producers providing something unique in the minimal scene besides Ricardo Villalobos. Love focuses on the sci-fi house sound ‘of the now’. The standouts on the double vinyl version…

Madonna - Hard Candy

Madonna - Hard Candy

(4 stars)8 May 2008

POP (Warner Bros) While acts much younger than her construct entire careers around trading on former glories, Madonna clearly doesn’t give two figs for nostalgia. Eleven albums on and pop’s most famous magpie and queen of reinvention is as sonically…

Parka - Attack of the Hundred Yard Hardman

Parka - Attack of the Hundred Yard Hardman

(2 stars)8 May 2008

BAGGY (Jeepster) One day, that baggy comeback is going to arrive, and will a band like Parka be leading the charge? Probably not. For all their verve and enthusiasm, the Glaswegian group (now based in London) sound just like the times they emulate…

Session A9 - Bottlenecks and Arm-Breakers

Session A9 - Bottlenecks and Arm-Breakers

(5 stars)8 May 2008

FOLK (RAJ Records) Session A9 are not the only four-fiddle ‘supergroup’ on the Scottish folk scene, but like both Blazin’ Fiddles and Fiddlers’ Bid, they have evolved their own distinctive approach to the format. That sense of individuality is down to…

The Gussets

Singles & Downloads

8 May 2008

Get ready, kids, it’s New Morrissey Single of the Fortnight time! And this one’s a stormer, all taut and driving, and laced with that familiar austerity which, you suspect, hides a well of uncertainty somewhere just below the surface. And it’s got these…

The Heavy Circles - The Heavy Circles

The Heavy Circles - The Heavy Circles

(3 stars)8 May 2008

ROCK/POP (Dynamite Child) Twenty years after the funky quirks of ‘What I Am’, Edie Brickell’s voice retains its girlish appeal: dreamy soaring, slacker tantrums and all. This time round, though, it’s her husband Paul Simon’s son Harper who is setting…

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24 Apr 2008

The Ossians - The MacPherson Tapes (45b) Akin to Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront, this long lost Edinburgh quartet ‘coulda been contenders’ had they not ended up imploding in a hail of rock’n’roll misfortune. This is the recently uncovered album that…

Capercaillie

Capercaillie - Roses and Tears

(3 stars)24 Apr 2008

FOLK (Vertical Records) Capercaillie have done very nicely with their particular fusion of traditional music with more contemporary influences, and it is hardly likely that they are going to suddenly throw all that aside in pursuit of some radical new…

dEUS - Vantage Point

dEUS - Vantage Point

(4 stars)24 Apr 2008

ROCK (V2) Belgian artrockers dEUS have a large cult following, but this fifth album deserves a wider audience. Expansive and eclectic, Vantage Point sees the fivesome refining their mix of powerfully emotive themes with leftfield, intelligent rock…

Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight

Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight

(4 stars)24 Apr 2008

INDIE (FatCat Records) Graduating from underground heroes to a mainstream proposition often, unfortunately, requires a little softening around the edges. No signs of this where Frightened Rabbit are concerned, however. While the Glasgow-based foursome…

Isobel Campbell

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Sunday at Devil Dirt

(2 stars)24 Apr 2008

COUNTRY/FOLK/BLUES (V2) Campbell and Lanegan’s Mercury-nominated debut was a one-trick pony, but it was a pretty cool trick. Campbell’s wispy whimper and Lanegan’s bourbon-soaked growl blended refreshingly over some old school folk and blues, but it…

Jonathan Harvey

Jonathan Harvey - Body Mandala

(4 stars)24 Apr 2008

CONTEMPORARY (NMC) Jonathan Harvey was Composer in Association with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra from 2005-7, and was a central figure in the recent IRCAM weekend in Glasgow. This CD includes two compositions written in his Glasgow residency…

Miyagi - Lucky Face

Miyagi - Lucky Face

(3 stars)24 Apr 2008

RETRO ROCK (Miyagi Music) Some of us demand originality in these days of ‘same-old, same-old’. Edinburgh’s Miyagi (a quartet with only one sold-out EP – Dragonfly – behind them) fall into many categories, none of them standardised pop. To pigeonhole…

Neil Cowley Trio

Neil Cowley Trio - Loud . . . Louder . . . Stop

(3 stars)24 Apr 2008

JAZZ (Cake Music) Pianist Neil Cowley and his cohorts, bassist Richard Sadler and drummer Evan Jenkins, appear in Scotland this month as part of the last Triptych festival, and rate among the hipper items on the current UK jazz scene. Lauded for…

Phil Harding

Phil Harding - The Story of Beginners

(3 stars)24 Apr 2008

SINGER-SONGWRITER (Wb Records) Over 30 years in the making, prolific pop producer Phil Harding finally marks the release of his debut solo album. From working with the likes of Stock, Aitken & Watercrap during the nauseating 80s, The Story of…

Portishead

Portishead - Third

(4 stars)24 Apr 2008

ELECTRONICA (Island) No one ever really expected Dummy MkII did they? For trip hop – the smoky sub-genre Portishead inadvertently helped create – is a distant, smouldering ember but Third is glorious, odd and timeless, a record of clanking, throbbing…

De Rosa

Singles & Downloads

24 Apr 2008

Independents, ie self-released records and downloads, are the current music industry trailblazers, but talk of ‘independence’ may account for the broad Scots accents on at least some of the current local releases. Comrade Down – 1/3 of former John Peel…

Tindersticks

Tindersticks - Hungry Saw

(3 stars)24 Apr 2008

SOUL (Beggars Banquet) Tindersticks have always understood that the essence of great soul music was a tall (occasionally tragic) tale set to something grand sounding and have amassed a back catalogue of heartbreaking, often breathtaking…

Boys Noize

Various - Bugged Out presents Suck My Deck Mixed by Boys Noize

(3 stars)24 Apr 2008

ELECTRONICA (New State Music) Boys Noize is the wholly apposite nom de plume of Berlin native Alex Ridha who, for his first ever mix CD has set ticking a whole crate of techno smart bombs for our delight. He mercilessly cuts up tracks by Kitsune…

Charles Webster

Various - Defected Presents Charles Webster

(3 stars)24 Apr 2008

ECLECTICA (Defected) If Charles Webster doesn’t sound like a typical superstar DJ, well that’s because he isn’t. He is a true cult hero of dance music and this triple CD package gives us a considered showcase of the breadth of work Webster programmes…

Ally Kerr

Ally Kerr - Off the Radar

(3 stars)10 Apr 2008

SINGER-SONGWRITER (Much Obliged Records) Off the Radar is the second album from one of Scotland’s brightest rising stars, Ally Kerr, whose debut set Calling Out to You from 2005 was hailed by critics from as far afield as Tokyo; the Glaswegian can be…

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10 Apr 2008

USSA - The Spoils (Fuzz Artists Inc) Jesus Lizard’s Duane Denison and Ministry’s Paul Barker join forces in a new four-piece which is reminiscent of their previous endeavours but throws in added Killing Joke-esque bombast. Damn fine. Quentin Harris…

Crystal Castles

Crystal Castles - Culture Castles

(5 stars)10 Apr 2008

INDIE/RAVE/GRIME/PUNK/ELECTRO The so-called new rave scene has been responsible for spewing out a load of old meaningless tosh since it was coined by desperate music journalists two years ago, but its latest wrong comes in the form of the debut album…

Gnarls Barkley

Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple

(3 stars)10 Apr 2008

POP (Warner Bros) The completely addictive nature of their debut single ‘Crazy’ set the bar just a tad high for Danger Mouse and Cee-lo Green (for they are Gnarls Barkley). The chances of lightning striking twice was remote but they’ve shown their…

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