Brendan McGeever - Vocals,
Edwin Cruden - Guitar,
Graham Stewart - Guitar,
Jim Macleod - The Bass,
Owen Williams - The Drums
Influences
Loveless, Seventeen Seconds, Dog Man Star, Machina, Hats, Definitely Maybe, Endtroducing, Music For Airports, On The Elipse, A Northern Soul, Spiderland, Beaucoup Fish, Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space, The Stone Roses, Revolver, The Holy Bible, Brighten The Corners, Vespertine, Modern Life Is Rubbish, Come on: Die Young, Xtrmntr.
Sounds Like
"Slint-like schismic guitars before moving on to other rockist patterns; punk, post, pose."
(The Skinny)
We as a band feel we have taken this particular venture as far as it can go and announce with heavy hearts that we have now ceased to be. We would like to thank everyone who came to see us over the past few years in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Thank you also to Alfonzo, Scott Taylor, Gavin Duvet, Ewan Gibson, HP, Mike Fowler, Joachim Huby, and all the others who have helped us out along the way. We are proud to have been supported at the Oran Mor by Paul Buchanan, and Valdimir Putin's favorite band Nazareth. We will continue to persue musical projects and will hopefully collaborate on things well into the future. We will post up the final two tracks that we have recorded in the coming days entitled "If I Was Losing" and "The Sea"
Our final gig is on the 26th July @ This Is Music, be good to see some faces.
North Atlantic Oscillation's "Hollywood Has Ended", from the forthcoming album Grappling Hooks, is featured in this month's Police Box compilation from TenTracks. It's here:
In case you haven't heard, TenTracks is a new music delivery service where you can buy exclusive 10-track compilations for £1, i.e. a mere 10p per track.
This month NAO are in the illustrious company of the excellent Found, Orkestra Del Sol, Fence Collective luminaries James Yorkston and King Creosote and exactly 5 others. Once again, that's £1 for ALL TEN TRACKS. Not bad, really.
euchrid eucrow are an alt.folk three-piece from Brighton, featuring members of both Bat for Lashes and British Sea Power. They create sparse soundscapes that flit between harmony and dissonance - at once yearning and wholly captivating.
Two highlights from the recent Retreat! festival complete the bill - Emily Scott (who also featured on the line-up at this year's Connect festival), and the Wee Rogue.
Manchester's Amida have been compared to both the Pixies and the Magnetic Fields - due in part to their ability to wrench catchy pop from dark subject matter. This is exemplified on their debut mini-album 'Arts and Crafts' which, rattling through six tracks in under 13 minutes, has been described as "a masterclass in pop economy".
Pushing shiny pop hooks to a lo-fi aesthetic, the Just Joans create tales of heartache and teenage longing in small town Caledonia. Is This Music described their debut album (Last Tango In Motherwell) as "frankly staggering", and probably the best album of that year. This was followed by two mini-albums on the rather lovely Wee POP label: Virgin Lips and Hey Boy, You're So Sensitive.
The Occasional Flickers' main songwriter Giorgos Bouras recorded debut album 'Scattered Songs' in his native Greece. But it wasn't until he relocated to Greece and put together a new live band that the music truly felt at home. Imbued with the lyrical wit of Belle and Sebastian, but delivered in the off hand style of the Pastels - they're the best Scottish pop band to ever come out of Greece. Or maybe the best Greek pop band in Scotland. Either way, they're not to be missed.
Rags & Feathers recently supported a Hawk and a Hacksaw in Glasgow, and rather brilliant they were too. Note perfect folk-pop, kinda like the Handsome Family by way of Fairport Convention.
Ziggy Campbell fronts Edinburgh folktronic popsters FOUND. His solo performances tread a similar path, but the stripped back set-up helps place more emphasis on intimacy and experimentation, helped by his collection of home-made instruments and vintage loop pedals.
Having already recorded and released two albums this year (Apple Tits for Destuction - which has "a 60s vibe", and Dance, which is "mainly all circuit bent instruments and drums"), and with plans for two more (one abstract war concept album, and one straight forward indie), Les Enfant Bastard could just be the most prolific, if not the most diverse, artist in Scotland just now.
@ Stills Gallery (Cockburn Street) 7pm-10pm tickets £4 on the door / cheap beer!
The Declining Winter is a new musical project led by Richard Vincent Adams, co-founder of leftfield musical pioneers Hood - influenced by Low, The Durutti Column and York City FC.
Skip your tea for the magnificent, synth-laden 7VWWVW (aka MAMMAL), and Doogie Paul of James Yorkston and the Athletes upright bass infamy.
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