Spare Snare
By Bernhard Bessing • Jul 10th, 2010 • Category: jralbums, long playersTruly indie ‘veterans’, the Dundee five-piece have made their seventh studio album something of a ‘back to basics’ effort.
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The Purrs
By Bernhard Bessing • Jul 10th, 2010 • Category: long playersYou know when Alan McGee declares a band to be the best he’s heard EVER - these senior moments which usually involve an act who’ve studied Wheeler 18 to the last clodhopping riff
Bear Bones
By Bernhard Bessing • Jun 4th, 2010 • Category: jrwee, short playersA very Scottish-sounding band, Bear Bones take both the legacy of Postcard and Belle and Sebastian and - alongside contemporaries like Broken Records and My Latest Novel - make a thickly-accented folk sound, one that swaggers and swings, like a Glaswegian full of Dutch courage.
Meanwhile, the lyrics reveal a darker tone -“let’s get up [...]
Katy Bar The Door
By Bernhard Bessing • Jun 4th, 2010 • Category: jrwee, short playersOlder readers may remember this lot - though any similarities to the band which existed at least six years ago will be I suspect long-since forgotten since those pre-broadband days.
French Wives
By Bernhard Bessing • May 31st, 2010 • Category: jrwee, short playersPossibly one of the more ‘tipped’ bands at present, this is the debut single from a 5-piece which is, in some ways typical a Glasgow act
