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eagleowl - The Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh, Fri 10 May 2013
22 May 2013
It only took ten years, but eagleowl’s first album finally hatches
Despite being Edinburgh and UK gig-playing regulars for almost a decade now, this was the night they launched their debut LP This Silent Year, an evening that saw the Fence-signed sextet eagleowl beam in all their slowcore majesty. Well thought-out…
EP review - Garden of Elks, 'Extended Play'
22 May 2013
Noise pop/college rock debut from a Glasgow band, starting to grow antlers
Fuzzy, relentless and slathered in Pixies and Sonic Youth influences, 'Extended Play' is a frantic debut affair which announces Garden of Elks as a band with genuine promise. Billing themselves as a ‘noise pop’ outfit, GOE are worthy of a place…
Burning Beaches, The Recks, Khushi and Velvet Stream to play ListLive in London
23 May 2013
The event is the first in a series of London gigs hosted by The List and promoters All Night Long
The List's first London-based live music event is only a week away, and we're pretty darn excited. With ListLive, we aim to embrace any genre of music as long as it's good, and for our debut outing in the UK capital, we've assembled four bands spanning…
Interview: Camera Obscura set for Rockness 2013
17 May 2013
Glasgow band whose recent history takes US recording sessions, cancer and pregnancy
‘It’s the ultimate test,’ begins Camera Obscura singer and songwriter Tracyanne Campbell, in describing how the band assessed the roadworthiness (literally) of new album Desire Lines. ‘The studio intern Michael had this crappy little car. Every time we…
Eagleowl - This Silent Year
19 Apr 2013
Languorous chamber-pop full of silence, distortion and exquisite humour
(Fence) Here are a few clues that this is a rare and unhurried debut album: it starts with a beat, and then the beat slows down; the instruments come in one by one; the opening words are ‘some other time’. The album’s centrepiece is in fact its…
Neil Young & Crazy Horse set for 2013 UK tour
15 May 2013
Neil Young and Crazy Horse visit UK for what is probably their last outing together
A grizzly bear of a man wrings sublimely heavy tones from a battered old Les Paul and a chain of massively overdriven amps while his seasoned companions sweat and toil to forge the most elemental of grooves: such is the lumbering majesty of Neil Young…
Public Service Broadcasting - ABC2, Glasgow, Wed 8 May 2013
23 May 2013
An overwhelming visual spectacle outshines the electronic duo's music
Despite having only released their debut album Inform-Educate-Entertain two days prior to this gig, the London based duo have already started to gather a steady cult following due to a slew of well received EPs and heavy exposure on BBC 6 Music. The…
New Scottish band Akord bring hard rock from the Granite City
1 May 2013
Zealous Aberdeen-bred band sweeping competition ahead of debut EP release
On the cusp of securing top spot at their third competition in as many months, the Granite City's noiseniks Akord have been rapidly attracting major attention from both sides of the border; all of which has been impressively amassed prior to the release…
Sparrow and the Workshop – Caves, Edinburgh, Thu 9 May 2013
22 May 2013
The alt.country/rock trio launch latest album Murderopolis with aplomb
There’s a party atmosphere to tonight’s gig at the Caves, the second of two launch parties for Sparrow and the Workshop’s new album, Murderopolis. Bunting and balloons festoon the stage; a bottle of whisky makes its way round the crowd; and both Sparrow…
Sweet Baboo - King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow, Tue 7 May 2013
15 May 2013
Charming set combines lyrical originality with self-deprecating humour
‘I go dancing and chancing my luck with all those girls - that’s why I’m bound for hell’, sings Stephen Black, aka Welshman Sweet Baboo, on catchy 2010 single ‘I’m a Dancer’. To look at this freckly face, rabbit-in-the-headlights expression and guitar…
Lorraine McIntosh, actor in stage production of Let The Right One In - interview
17 May 2013
The erstwhile Deacon Blue singer has a love for big dogs and Bruce Springsteen
First record you ever bought ‘Cavatina’ by The Shadows. Last book you read The Blind Man’s Garden by Nadeem Aslam. First film you saw that really moved you Shenandoah with Jimmy Stewart. Last lie you told ‘Oh, I can’t make that night, I’m…
Interview: The Pastels on latest studio album Slow Summits
15 May 2013
Stephen McRobbie on recent work and the Glasgow band's much-anticipated new material
When confronted with a promise he made last time I interviewed him for The List in 2007, Stephen McRobbie, aka Stephen Pastel, smiles and squirms a little. ‘There will be new Pastels music released this year,’ he had assured us, referring to his band’s…
Bong / Pyramidion - Untitled
19 Apr 2013
Beautifully executed split from the yin and yang of contemporary psychedelic rock
(At War With False Noise) Set controls for the heart of the Tyrant Sun, courtesy of Newcastle’s high lords of psychedelic sludge Bong and Glasgow/Edinburgh’s spry, mesmerising space-rock ensemble Pyramidion. Distinctly different in approach and…
Exposure: Haim set for 2013 UK tour dates
15 May 2013
Sweet, yearning, retro pop melodies from sister-heavy band
When Haim look towards their future, do they see anything between themselves and a torrent of riches and acclaim? We’ve checked, and we can detect nothing. Were we to be unimaginative, in fact, we’d say they have all the retroisms to one day go on to be…
King Creosote - Oran Mor, Glasgow, Wed 10 Apr 2013
23 Apr 2013
Fence Records stalwart's bittersweet railing over declining physical music sales
Following on from his low-key appearance on the fringes of Fence’s Gnomegame festival in Anstruther the weekend before, Kenny Anderson was playing the second date of a monstrous month-long UK solo tour here, the first coming the day before in Shetland.
Steve Mason - King Tut’s, Glasgow, Tue 9 Apr 2013
22 Apr 2013
Heady atmosphere evidence of deep personal and musical connection
The beered-up battalion swarming the venue are celebrating like a home game victory. Why wouldn’t they be on this Tuesday? (Insert obvious Thatcher comment here.) But it’s Mason’s danceable, wry mid-tempo indie that's the primary source of the crowd’s…
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
15 May 2013
A great sixth record, but not one which parades the fact before you
(4AD) The idea that much of the music here was written by guitarist Aaron Desner while bedevilled by bone-aching fatigue and sleepless nights following the birth of his baby daughter is a compelling one. It ties into the sense of a band shattered…
Sparrow and the Workshop - Murderopolis
15 May 2013
Third album from Glasgow rock-noir trio has psych-rock heart
(Song, By Toad) This album starts with the words ‘when love was the greatest thing’ - and it is all you need to unravel the third long-player from a Glasgow rock-noir trio who variously conjure The Bad Seeds, The Shangri-Las, Johnny Cash and Melanie…
The Fall - Re-Mit
15 May 2013
Suggests insistent inter-band chemistry despite there being no real surprises here
(Cherry Red) Whoa-whoa-whoa, etc! Don't ever underestimate Mark E Smith, The Fall's founder, writer, vocalist and sole surviving member since they formed 35 years ago. Some may dismiss him as a past-his-best drunken parody of many former glories, and…
William Tyler & Hiss Golden Messenger - Summerhall, Edinburgh, Sat 4 May
15 May 2013
Songs setting a dense emotional mood and strong sense of place
Despite the setting in a cool, dark, wood-panelled lecture theatre, sometime Silver Jews and Lambchop guitarist William Tyler and Hiss Golden Messenger songwriter and fulcrum Michael ‘MT’ Taylor brought a certain sense of the pastoral with them for this…
The Cat Empire add UK dates to 2013 World Tour schedule
23 Apr 2013
The ska-jazz collective are touring their fifth studio album, Steal the Light
Melbourne-based ska-jazz collective The Cat Empire will visit the UK on their biggest world tour to date. Celebrating the release of their new album, Steal the Light, the genre-defying band will visit a total of four continents and perform a total of 70…
Phoenix - Bankrupt!
19 Apr 2013
Post-breakthrough return is brash, unapologetic, full of pomp and self-assured tunes
(Atlantic) Bankrupt! begins with the brilliant bravura of ‘Entertainment’, a blitzkrieg of uptempo synths and guitars. It’s the kind of epic, contemporary new wave swagger that goes down just swell when performed in front of huge summer festival crowds.
Thirty Pounds of Bone - I Cannot Sing You Here, But for Songs of Where
19 Apr 2013
Album exploring location and identity via travelling odes and upbeat celtic folk knees-ups
(Armellodie) As you might suspect of an itinerant folk hoarder who takes his grisly nom de plume from the average weight of a dead man’s bones, Johnny Lamb appreciates the gravity of his songs. His third album, I Cannot Sing You Here... frames his…
James and Twin Atlantic announced for Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival 2013 line-up
18 Apr 2013
The fest will also host The Straits, Noisettes, Admiral Fallow, The Horrors and Dougie Maclean
Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival’s 10th anniversary with be headlined by Manchester indie rock band James and Glasgow rockers Twin Atlantic. James, formed in 1982, produced one of the Bella’s most celebrated performances in 2007. 12 studio albums…
Dethscalator - Racial Golf Course, No Bitches
17 Apr 2013
The depraved, baffling and stinkingly good debut album from the Hackney noise rockers
If an album title is a statement of intent, then we’re on upsettingly shaky ground here. Is Racial Golf Course, No Bitches a meat-headed attempt at offensiveness? A satirical statement on the intrinsic bigotry of the golfing classes? Just some…
