‘I Hope It Breaks Your Heart’ is not simply the name of the lead single from Lotte Mullan’s Claw Marks EP, it seems to be her mission statement. A slightly abrasive tactic for a new artist in trying to win…
We’ve talked before about Farewell J.R’s ability to evoke all of the feels, and it’s in evidence here again in new track ‘Held By A Shiver’. It’s mournful and oppressive in the best possible way. Farewell J.R’s new EP And…
It’s hard to say exactly what sort of music Douga make, and if this is not necessarily by design, it’s no real accident either. Former Plank! drummer Johnny Winbolt-Lewis has formed this foursome of like-minded experimentalists to explore his love…
When I first listened to Bird in 2011, the band played delicate, dark folk songs with layers of backing vocals and looped acoustic guitars. Three years later, they’ve added at least one member and upped the bass, producing an album…
Al Spx, aka Cold Specks, will return with her sophomore album Neuroplasticity in August. If the title is a bit more of a tongue twister than debut I Predict A Graceful Explosion, the music has ticked up a few notches…
In 1937 Neil Gunn sold his house, quit his job and went off in an old converted lifeboat for a summer to inspire his writing; voyaging around the west coast of Scotland. He wrote about the various communities on the…