Sweet soul music, Iron & Wine, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Calexico, REM, Lloyd Cole & the Commotions, The Fall, King Crimson, Jeff Buckley, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Micah P Hinson, Joanna Newsom, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, Pavement, Echo & the Bunnymen, Neutral Milk Hotel, Wilco, Whiskeytown, Gram Parsons/Burrito Brothers/Byrds, Townes Van Zandt, The Clash, Violent Femmes, Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris, The Band, Hank Williams, Yann Tiersen, Camera Obscura, Tom Waits, Belle & Sebastian, Nick Drake, King Creosote, Arab Strap/Malcolm Middleton, Kinky Friedman, Don Paterson, Larkin, Lorca and the Spanish Civil War.
"...they display an uncanny ability to write what can best described as quiet, elegiac, and angelic acoustic pop songs ... Is it wrong for melancholy to make me so happy?" (Is This Music?)
"...not the cheeriest listen by any means but they were excellent, switching instrumentation to create different moods on the six songs they played..." (Manic Pop Thrills)
i don't remember if any of you guys still stay in glasgow but if you are, i thought you might like to know we're playing at the captain's rest on monday.
This Friday 26th June 8PM SecretCDs @ The Tron Hunter Sq £5
Lypsync for a Lullaby "Edinburgh's answer to Sigur Ros" "invigorating mix of light and shade. . . Big, big music!"
Foundlings "A fine blend of pin-point almost spoken word vocals and tales of journeys along England’s psychotic autobahns - the spirit of the age." ". . .a kind of My Bloody Valentine for Motorway City times and One More Grain disciples." "Stone Roses for Neu heads!"
The Foundling Wheel "It's beepy, it's insane, it's shouty. It's angry but clever. It makes me want to drive a motorcycle the wrong way down the motorway. Naked." "braiding chromatic sheets of singeing electro-bending between frayed laces of gleaming melody." "Experimental mental music for robots to have sex to"
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'Ask Me Again' is a song that if i was away from Homeland, it would make me homesick. It's a Scottish hug when low. with a hint of Early Cranberries sound, thrown in with REM. on a cold night, when you go inside a pub, plonk yourself down on an old leather seat in front of a fire+have a drink.
It's many things, but crud it sure is not. I like it. Well done:)
Hello, it's that time of the month again when we add more lovely music to our site. This month's happy foursome are The Barker Band in wistful mode, the summer of love-ish Old Californio, the anything but summer love-ish Christopher Rees and, wait for it..."Travelling Salesman's Young Wife Home Alone On Christmas In Montpelier, VT" from Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, which evenr if it was rubbish (and it's not) just had to be included for the names alone.
One of the Scotsman's Top 5 gigs for the week: "Rob St John, The Wee Rogue, Ben Wetherill Saturday 4 April, The Bowery, doors: 7.45 Think of the sound of silence. Now add to it a tender, corkscrewing vocal and a few pulse-stopping melodies and you’ve done it; you’ve pinned down Rob St John. The once singer/songwriter now fully functioning band is an exquisite aural pleasure that never fails to induce the tingle of goose-flesh across UTR’s oh-so-manly self. Set in the Bowery’s haunting halls and supported by The Wee Rogue’s brittle-boned mews and Hack & A Hacksaw collaborator Ben Wetherill, you’d be a fool to miss this one." Email us for a place on the cheap ticket list www.benjaminwetherill.co.uk
Itâs that time of the month and our site has four new tracks up for your listening enjoyment.
This monthâs box of delights include the swaggering groove of Blackie & The Rodeo Kings, the insanely catchy folk-pop of Antje Duvekot, the languid Great Lake Swimmers and, a little belatedly but better late than never, The Young Republic.
A particularly strong month, even if we do say so ourselves. Check them out, you won't regret it.
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