‘So I Cry Out’ by Gambles is as simple as music gets: a voice, a few guitar chords and a bucketload of raw emotion. It’s the sort of track that only an experienced artist could possibly have the self-assurance to…
#177 Gambles – So I Cry Out
Devon Sproule’s tour diary: yesterday in pictures
On the cliffs at Esheness.
At the falconry on the way west to Eigg.
Muddy red deer and eagle owl.
Thom’s favourite movie ever.
All by Paul.
#176 Country Parish Music – Lady Maisry
Introducing Country Parish Music by Country Parish Music Steve Collins, formerly of the Owl Service, has linked up with Welsh singer Rosemary Lippard for a lovely new project Country Parish Music. With a marriage of sounds that feel made for…
Album | Laura Veirs – Warp & Weft
The ninth studio album by the Oregon veteran marks a return to more conventional material after 2011’s Tumble Bee: Laura Veirs Sings Folk Songs for Children. If that project seemed a surprising departure for “Two Beers Veirs”, this rock-tinged set…
Devon Sproule’s tour diary | days 8-10 – Shetland and Yell
We’ve been lost in a world of mist for days! Everyone in Shetland said it was a shame but that’s probably just their habit. I think we all thought it was beautiful and mysterious.
Saw airplaney Fulmars all over the super-shrouded Eshaness cliffs today. Giant pointy Ganets above the wake of the ferry earlier this evening — especially cool after reading about them in the St Kilda book….
#175 Belle & Sebastian – The Wrong Girl
Today is Stuart Murdoch’s birthday, and although Wikipedia is more or less adamant that he’s turning 45, we all know that he’s really nineteen, scribbling in exercise books and pining away as he gazes out the window of a Glasgow…