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Athlete review, The Arches, Glasgow, Sat 30 July

Athlete - The Arches, Glasgow, Sat 30 Jul 2011

Acoustic indie pop given another airing for fans

(3 stars)26 Aug 2011

Athlete’s ‘The Hits - Stripped back’ promised an intriguing evening from the once Ivor Novello winners, an intimate atmosphere tethered together with fairy lit piano and a couple of chintz floor lamps on stage. Folkly foursome My First Tooth opened…

Admiral Fallow

Admiral Fallow

Indie-pop-folk triple bill with Fallow, Over the Wall and Kid Canaveral

(3 stars)25 Aug 2011

Admiral Fallow have landed a rather good indie-pop double bill to kick them off this evening. West coast duo Over the Wall are first on, and as a result don’t have a huge audience amassed to watch them (especially considering this is a sell-out gig).

Profile: Best Coast

Profile: Best Coast

Californian surf-pop duo set for Edinburgh date

24 Aug 2011

That name rings a bell... Refresh my memory? Gladly. It’s a boy/girl duo of Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno, with Ali Koehler on drums. What does their music sound like? A sad look back at a really incredible, life-changing, but ultimately…

The Drums - Portamento

The Drums - Portamento

Second helping of summery indie pop from the darlings of the hipster set

(4 stars)24 Aug 2011

(Island) On this, their second album, The Drums have made no effort to grow out of summery guitar riffs and meaningless lyrics full of innocent joy. In fact, these 12 sprightly indie-pop tracks are so similar, and so slight, that Portamento could be…

Eat sleep breathe: Joan as Police Woman

Eat sleep breathe: Joan as Police Woman

The singer-songwriter divulges some of her eating habits

24 Aug 2011

What time is breakfast? Depending on the night before, 9 or 11.30. Tea or coffee? Rooibos tea. The doctor swore me off coffee even though I die inside every time I smell it... Smoking or non-smoking? One after the show. Thankfully I don’t long…

King Creosote and Jon Hopkins set for UK tour

King Creosote and Jon Hopkins set for UK tour

Duo take Mercury-nominated Diamond Mine on the road

24 Aug 2011

The List must confess it has to stop taking cues from the John Motson school of interviewing. ‘So, Kenny Anderson aka King Creosote, Fence Records founder and self-made recording artist who’s been working away in relative obscurity for many years now…

Exposure: Alpines

Exposure: Alpines

'Night-pop’ London duo support CSS

24 Aug 2011

This girl/ boy duo from SW London have us hooked with their moody single ‘Cocoon’, a dose of ‘night-pop’ with more than a little hint of Portishead about it. It’s hopefully a taster of more to come from their debut album in 2012. We caught Catherine…

Rod Jones & The Birthday Suit set for UK tour

Rod Jones & The Birthday Suit set for UK tour

Idlewild guitarist learns drums for second solo album

24 Aug 2011

When Idlewild took indefinite leave in 2010, it appeared guitarist Rod Jones would follow singer Roddy Woomble down the folk route. After all, 2009’s A Sentimental Education suggested a man at one with his acoustic guitar. When he sat down to write and…

Eat, sleep, breathe: The Moth & The Mirror

Eat, sleep, breathe: The Moth & The Mirror

Stacey Sievwright from Glasgow band on food and drink preferences

24 Aug 2011

What time is breakfast? I don’t do breakfast. I do brunch. It’s my favourite meal and I would happily eat it all day, usually sometime after midday though. Tea or coffee? Earl Grey. Smoking or non-smoking? Sometimes I’ll sneak a wee rolly but…

Cant – Dreams Come True

Cant – Dreams Come True

Grizzly Bear multi-instumentalist and producer Chris Taylor emerges from bedroom-pop hibernation

(4 stars)24 Aug 2011

(Warp) Recorded in 10 days just a whisper away from where Grizzly Bear recorded Veckatimest, Dreams Come True is the first major foray into solo-dom by the band’s member-producer Chris Taylor. Written with George Lewis Jr AKA Twin Shadow (who last…

PJ Harvey set for 2011 UK tour

PJ Harvey set for 2011 UK tour

Dates include Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

24 Aug 2011

Since releasing her caustic debut, Dry, in 1992, PJ Harvey has been hailed as a powerfully emotive and dazzlingly uncompromising artist, equally capable of shaking your bones and getting stuck in your head. As ambitious as she is forward-thinking…

The Jayhawks - Mockingbird Time

The Jayhawks - Mockingbird Time

Winningly upbeat and hope-filled return

(4 stars)24 Aug 2011

(Decca) Marking a long-awaited reunion of the band’s two principal songwriters Gary Louris and Mark Olson – the latter of whom acrimoniously left to live in the desert with his folk-singer wife (now ex) Victoria Williams in 1995 – Mockingbird Time…

The Rapture - In the Grace of Your Love

The Rapture - In the Grace of Your Love

Operating with one or both feet off the dancefloor

(4 stars)24 Aug 2011

(DFA) Don’t go into this third album by New York’s sometime disco-punk mavericks expecting the uplifting Chicago house keys of comeback single ‘How Deep is Your Love?’ and you’ll be fine. That the second and most recent of their club-friendly earlier…

Slow Club - Paradise

Slow Club - Paradise

Celestial landscape of indie doo-wop, camp-fire folk and glimmering soul

(4 stars)24 Aug 2011

(Moshi Moshi) If there is a more enjoyable example this year of buoyant tap dancing than on the video for ‘Two Cousins’, then I will eat my hand-made Slow Club hat. The video’s startling choreography and the song’s nostalgic, glorious swoon-pop are…

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Hysterical

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Hysterical

Splashy disco beats, floaty synth-strings and wounded puppy yelping

(3 stars)24 Aug 2011

(V2/Co-op) Brooklyn’s CYHSY were trailblazers for the internet-savvy, straight-to-fans DIY indie generation with their self-titled, self-released 2005 debut album. After a cool response to 2007’s Some Loud Thunder and a four year-interim during which…

Barn Owl - Lost in the Glare

Barn Owl - Lost in the Glare

Hypnotic, elegantly sparse instrumentals

(4 stars)24 Aug 2011

(Thrill Jockey) Their bird name might accidentally attract a few wrongly-footed fans of twee pop, but the San Francisco duo of Evan Caminiti and Jon Porras don’t really have much in the way of choruses or sing-song melodies. Instead, like another…

Ganglians - Still Living

Ganglians - Still Living

A beautiful thing, but a couple of years late for the beach party

(3 stars)24 Aug 2011

(Souterrain Transmissions) This is an undeniably solid and harmonious surf-pop album from Sacramento’s Ganglians. The only snag is, it just feels like several albums you may have already heard – and probably loved – before. The second album from…

Beirut - The Rip Tide

Beirut - The Rip Tide

Delicately composed and personal music which occasionally lacks bite

(3 stars)24 Aug 2011

(Pompeii) For such a unique artist with a truly intercontinental approach to music, taking inspiration from the lineage of North American alternative indie rock and the instruments and styles of Eastern European music, there’s a lot that sounds…

The Waterboys - An Audience With Mr Yeats

The Waterboys - An Appointment With Mr Yeats

Scott’s music and Yeats’ words make for work of social resonance and artistic wonder

(4 stars)24 Aug 2011

(Proper) There is such a vivid sense of chemistry between Waterboys frontman Mike Scott and literary icon WB Yeats it is hard to believe that the twain never met. This would have been some feat, of course, what with the legendary Irish poet having…

Penguin Prison - Penguin Prison

Penguin Prison - Penguin Prison

Crisp, revitalising debut album that is both retro and relevant

(3 stars)24 Aug 2011

(Stranger) Penguin Prison have just gone and nailed that curious talent of producing music rooted in retro sound, whilst also making it utterly relevant. This self-titled debut album features swathes of synth flooded in 80s sheen, but there’s enough…

The Rapture - In the Grace of Your Love

St Vincent - Strange Mercy

Contemporary classicism with sharp beats, woozy synths and a personality of its own

(4 stars)24 Aug 2011

(4AD) Annie Clark, aka St Vincent, is an oddball pop whizz in the tradition of Kate Bush or Todd Rundgren, spinning gorgeous melodies from unconventional structures and inspired arrangements. Her voice is exquiste, but never merely pretty. Clark…

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Mirror Traffic

Expansive treat from ever-original American artist produced by Beck

(4 stars)16 Aug 2011

(Domino) There’s a fine line between playing to the crowd and finding your groove, and sometime Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus appears to be walking it. His new album bestrides most genres known to man, bouncing between the familiar (the cheery…

Warpaint

Warpaint set for UK tour

Rock depths and pop heights are reached by the LA foursome

16 Aug 2011

Warpaint’s dream-warped modus operandi goes something like this: they lure you into an indie-rock reverie, nag at your heart-strings with gauzy nostalgia, interweave magic with silvery guitars – and then they haul your ass onto the dancefloor. Take…

Adam Stafford - Build a Harbour Immediately

Adam Stafford - Build a Harbour Immediately

Debut soloalbum from Y’All Is Fantasy Island frontman

(4 stars)16 Aug 2011

(Wise Blood Industries) Falkirk’s Adam Stafford is a youthful cult-pop polymath whose various endeavours embrace music (he fronted Y’All Is Fantasy Island and helms DIY imprint Wise Blood Industries), video directing (The Twilight Sad’s ‘Seven Years…

Mirror Mirror - Interiors

Mirror Mirror - Interiors

Brooklyn duo's trippy and downbeat intelligent pop

(3 stars)16 Aug 2011

(RVNG Intl) This Brooklyn’s duo’s penchant for intelligent pop is obvious, with melody always at the fore. While the title track of their second full-length album is more trippy and downbeat than the majority of the record, ‘Sublime Objective’ is a…

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