A rummage through the loft shows that as suspected, this East Lothian outfit did indeed feature on an is this music? CD some 5 years ago. That piece of detective work along with the album notes (I’d say ‘sleeve’ but since the release comes wrapped in a haggis pizza box with a ‘nonconforming goods’ stamp [...]
Unless the youngster featured on the cover is a young ‘Sweeney’, the provenance of this debut album is unclear and indeed mysterious. And listening to the music doesn’t help much either. From the opening ‘Carried Away By Melody’ with its recorded-in-a-bucket sound and ludicrous squeaky toy percussion, it’s a bizarre ramble through several eras and [...]
An album needs to kick off with impact, and opener ‘The Baltic Sea’ does that for this debut - sounding exactly as you would expect Emma Pollock to sound had she been brought up in Stockholm
This Aberdeen 4-piece release a 5-track EP which shows them up as a versatile crew with, we guess, a wide-ranging record collection.
Newcomers on the psychedelic / folk / pop (delete as applicable) scene, Gaunt Story are actually old timers compared to the likes of Noah and the Whale or Mumford and Sons or whoever.
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