De Rosa
By Dan Coxon • Jul 1st, 2009 • Category: featuresitm? talks to De Rosa’s Martin Henry about electronica, depression and Scottish identity
itm? talks to De Rosa’s Martin Henry about electronica, depression and Scottish identity
Lanarkshire five-piece Luma have the kind of swelling guitar sound that naturally lends itself to live performance, and you can’t help feeling that ‘Blue Peter Garden’ fails to do them justice.
A sugary, summery slice of laidback pop, ‘Waiting For You’ is how Jack Johnson might sound if he’d grown up in Bristol and North Wales, rather than surfing off the coast of Hawaii.
For a home-produced album, Until The Traffic Stops is a remarkably polished affair.
It must have been blatantly obvious to even the most casual of observers that we were going to love this compilation album. Promising to bring together ‘twelve of Scotland’s best new artists’, it’s clear from the first glance that they’re not talking about Paulo Nutini or Amy Macdonald.