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Q Without U

By Calum Craig • Jul 4th, 2010 • Category: jrwee, short players

Likeably wonky Scottish indie from the Glasgow 4-piece - thickly accented vocals, strident guitars and drums and a keyboard that sounds like a bank of theremins gaffa-taped together.



We See Lights

By Calum Craig • Apr 23rd, 2010 • Category: jralbums, long players

Quite where the nu-folk revolution goes next is anyone’s guess, but We See Lights’ press clipping suggests that they’re pretty well entrenched in the Scottish scene



Burnt Island

By Calum Craig • Apr 23rd, 2010 • Category: jralbums, long players

Math rock? That was - still is - a musical genre easily recognised by its complexities of riffs, its meandering melodies, each tune forever taking unexpected turns when least expected.



The Proclaimers

By Calum Craig • Apr 12th, 2010 • Category: jrwee, short players

If you were to plot the careers of the Reid Brothers on a chart, you’d get something all over the place, all peaks and troughs, and in the most unexpected places.



Johnny and the Giros

By Calum Craig • Feb 5th, 2010 • Category: jrwee, short players

Imagine if the 80s had bypassed Scotland.