Rock Stone
By Clarke Geddes • Nov 12th, 2007 • Category: long playersRock Stone’s new album ‘Always Kisses’ is largely the work of Adam Stone; a self confessed ‘hopeless romantic’ who makes prolific, heart on the (plaid) sleeve bedsit-pop.
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Electric Drugstore
By Clarke Geddes • Nov 12th, 2007 • Category: short playersCelebrating the launch of renowned Glasgow club Firewater’s new label (handily named under the same moniker), their debut single is from Glasgow five-piece Electric Drugstore.
Maximo Park
By Clarke Geddes • Oct 31st, 2007 • Category: gigsSeeing that every date on this tour is sold out, Maximo are obviously no longer scraping beans from their Bedroom walls. But the main effect it seems to have had isn’t on the music, oh no, ‘Our Earthly Pleasures’ assured their jittering lit-pop was still in fine, crestfallen form.
The Teenagers
By Clarke Geddes • Sep 26th, 2007 • Category: short playersGet Bill Murray on the phone! ‘Starlett Johansson’ sounds like Kraftwerk’s Ralf Hutter pretending be Terminator over a sloppy, sordid 80’s synth pastiche.
The Coral
By Clarke Geddes • Sep 26th, 2007 • Category: short players‘Jacqueline’ sees The Coral coming of age, not only in that it sounds a tiny bit like Ocean Colour Scene but also because in today’s flouro-ravaged ‘indie’ scene it sticks out like a well-gnawed thumb.
