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De Rosa

By • Jul 1st, 2009 • Category: features

itm? talks to De Rosa’s Martin Henry about electronica, depression and Scottish identity



Luma

By • Sep 26th, 2007 • Category: short players

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.



Al Lewis

By • Sep 26th, 2007 • Category: short players

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.



Alex Cornish

By • Sep 26th, 2007 • Category: long players

For a home-produced album, Until The Traffic Stops is a remarkably polished affair.



Various

By • Sep 26th, 2007 • Category: long players

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.