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Machinedrum - sXlnd
27 Jan 2012
Inventive release taking in UK funky, smooth old-school house and sophisticated club tracks
(LuckyMe) A five-track EP rather than a full-blown album, there’s nonetheless a long player’s worth of sonic invention on the latest from Travis Stewart, running the gamut from UK funky to smooth old-school house with an understated Balearic edge.
Arab Strap - Nice ‘n’ Sleazy, Glasgow, Thu 17 Nov 2011
13 Dec 2011
Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton strip down their back catalogue
As if anyone would have called their band ‘William Harness’ anyway. That was the not-so-secret moniker Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton chose to add deniability to the fact they were getting the old band back together here, even if it was just for one…
Summer Camp set for UK tour
28 Feb 2012
Bitter-hearted take girl groups of 50s and 60s
Summer Camp: a duo so in tune with one another they respond to The List’s email questions as one entity. ‘How did you get together’, we ask them. ‘We’d known each other for ages,’ Jeremy Warmsley and Elizabeth Sankey tell us in stereo. Then Elizabeth…
Spector - King Tut’s, Glasgow, Wed 15 Feb
28 Feb 2012
Blending the anthemic and the generic to pleasing effect
‘What a pleasure,’ notes Fred Macpherson. ‘I thought Newcastle on Tuesday was something, but this...’ Wearing his hair gelled to one side and a pair of thick-framed black glasses, the suited singer recalls Buddy Holly or Crispin Glover as Marty’s dad in…
Tanlines - Mixed Emotions
22 Feb 2012
Brooklynite art-pop duo embrace the sound of 1980s pop on debut
(Matador) Brooklynite art-pop duo Tanlines, aka Jesse Cohen and Eric Emm, are contemporaries of Yeasayer and Health, and perhaps some positive pre-judging on that basis is required. After a batch of singles, splits and remixes, the pair fully embrace…
Trailer Trash Tracys - Captain’s Rest, Glasgow, Sun 15 Jan 2012
27 Jan 2012
Effects-laden shoegaze fog heavy on the exquisite melodrama
Not, as you might have expected from the name, a clan of bad-mouthin’, whisky-swillin’ Midwestern girls battering badly-tuned guitars and trying to resurrect the lost souls of L7 or The Distillers, Trailer Trash Tracys are instead three guys and a girl…
Pulp - It/Freaks/Separations
27 Jan 2012
Reissue of first three albums from 1980s originally released on Fire
(Fire) Testament to the 80s’capacity to incubate provincial bands until they’re ready for megastardom, Pulp’s first three albums on Fire were a career’s worth in themselves, although hardly anyone remembers. Containing, as all three of these reissues…
The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know
23 Jan 2012
Influence of post-punk and synthesisers lends more heart-shredding, austere edge
(FatCat) Bearing the uncertain honour of an ‘anti-production’ credit from Andrew Weatherall (it means general pre-recording guidance, it seems), this second album from The Twilight Sad is a surprising and substantial progression. The washes of epic…
Preview of 2012 - Emeli Sandé
6 Jan 2012
The Scottish chart-topper aims to release a hit album in 2012
Whenever Emeli Sandé gets a chance to stop and think, she says, the journey she’s already been on in her life still has her pinching herself. ‘To think that three years ago I was sitting in a lecture theatre in Glasgow learning about anatomy,’ she says…
Malcolm Middleton - Electric Circus, Edinburgh, Wed 14 Dec
6 Jan 2012
The ex-Arab Strap man isn't as miserable as he makes out
What better way to celebrate Christmas than with Mr Season of Goodwill himself, Malcolm Middleton, the man whose campaign to get ‘We’re All Going to Die’ to the 2007 Christmas number one spot will live long in the hearts of those who believed in it.
The Saturdays - SECC, Glasgow, Tue 13 Dec
6 Jan 2012
Polished pop performance that felt lacking in soul
With Little Mix winning this year’s X-Factor, you would think the positively elderly Saturdays (average age: 24) would be showing signs of abject desperation not to lose their crown as the current biggest UK girl group not in semi-retirement. But no...
The Lemonheads - Laughing All the Way to the Cleaners: The Best Of
5 Jan 2012
Expansive look at Evan Dando and co's back catalogue
(Rhino) Evan Dando is still going strong as the lone remaining member of The Lemonheads, although his days as a mainstream slacker rock heartthrob are long behind him. As this two-CD, 47-track collection demonstrates, though – perhaps too extensively…
François and the Atlas Mountains - E Volo Love
5 Jan 2012
Breezy, summery pop from the former Fencer
(Domino) Graduating, as James Yorkston and King Creosote did before him, from Fence to Domino, La Rochelle’s François Marry has produced an album here that’s worthy of the increased exposure. A set of breezy summertime pop songs which seem strangely…
The Hot 100 2011: 100-50
16 Dec 2011
The definitive list of Scottish creative talent
100: Gordon Ferris. Kilmarnock crime author makes good. The already packed Scottish crime writing field has finally found a bit of elbow room for another burgeoning talent. Joining the likes of Rankin, Brookmyre, McDermid and co is this Ayrshire-born…
Hot 100 2011 - No. 49 to 1
16 Dec 2011
The definitive list of Scottish creative talent
The Hot 100 is the definitive list of Scottish creative talent. From fashion designers to performance artists, everyone who has made a sizeable splash in 2011 has a place in this countdown. It’s for people who’ve created a buzz, but it’s also about…
Numbers discuss the club/brand's New Year plans
13 Dec 2011
Hogmanay celebrations in both Edinburgh and Glasgow lie ahead
It’s been another good year for Glasgow’s ever-growing clubbing export Numbers. So big, in fact, that they need a whole three cities to contain their send-off to 2011. First they’ll be warming up with a set at Edinburgh’s Sneaky Pete’s the night before…
Music-themed Christmas parties round-up
13 Dec 2011
Festive shindigs on offer from Song, By Toad, Phantom Band, James Yorkston, Fence and more
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas in Scotland’s indie village without a bunch of our favourite bands getting together to chip in for mince pies and mulled wine and treat us to / inflict upon us some of their most diligently practiced seasonal covers. Yes…
Jonnie Common - Hair of the Dog
8 Dec 2011
Common's debut Master of None yields a just-as-good set of muso-buddy remixes
(Red Deer Club) Jonnie Common’s debut album Master of None: a record so good he actually got two albums out of it. This remix package is more of an appendix to the original than a cohesive new creation in its own right, but its roll call of some of…
Single of the month: Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks’ ‘Senator’
15 Nov 2011
James Morrison feat. Jessie J, Erasure, Kelly Rowland, Vaccines and more also reviewed
At last, the collaboration we’ve all been waiting for! Yes, it’s James Morrison feat. Jessie J ‘Up’ (Island) ●● and it’s astonishing that they’ve come up with a lump of saccharine X-Factor duet fodder and not the greatest song you’ve ever heard. What…
The Shivers - Mono, Glasgow, Mon 7 Nov 2011
15 Nov 2011
Impressive, broad-ranging show from the US/Aussie duo
‘I really love Glasgow,’ says The Shivers’ Keith Zarriello, ‘it’s much better than London.’ Cue easy-won cheers and chants from the home crowd. ‘He loves the power, don’t give it to him,’ laughed his keyboard playing accomplice Jo Schornikow. Too…
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Wolfroy Goes to Town
15 Nov 2011
Compelling alt-country from Will Oldman
(Domino) ‘Stop all the moaning and bemoaning your fate / god isn’t listening, or else it’s too late,’ sings Will Oldham on ‘Time to Be Clear’, his voice like driftwood lapping at the shore. In all things heart-shattering and beautiful in the world of…
Johnny Foreigner - Johnny Foreigner vs Everything
10 Nov 2011
Bright-eyed punk-pop anthems toytown post-punk and wistful emo ballads
(Alcopop!) Ludicrously long song titles did no harm to the late, lamented Mclusky and Biffy Clyro in their early days, and Birmingham’s Johnny Foreigner attempt a similar route to notoriety with ‘If I’m the Most Famous Boy You’ve Fucked, Then Honey…
Django Django set for UK tour
9 Nov 2011
Band support Metronomy and release self-titled debut in 2012
‘We weren’t really a band when we started,’ says Dave Maclean of London quartet Django Django. ‘We had to engineer a band around us so we could play a gig. We were booked to play a gig at [Brick Lane venue] 93 Feet East and we just had to recreate our…
Slow Club - Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Mon 19 Sep 2011
21 Oct 2011
Folk rock twosome expand numbers but lose none of their charm
Despite Rebecca Taylor’s protestations, Slow Club looked to be in reasonable shape considering they spent the previous night out with Aidan Moffat in Glasgow. ‘It was like an Indiana Jones film before I went to bed,’ recalled Charles Watson ruefully…
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
20 Oct 2011
The usual ingredients from a seemingly unencumbered Gallagher
(Sour Mash) Given that Noel Gallagher hasn’t made a truly vital album since 1995 and his brother has already unleashed the underwhelming Beady Eye upon us, expectations perhaps aren’t stratospheric for the solo project the elder Gallagher has been…
