Iain Petrie
By Paul Finnie • Oct 11th, 2008 • Category: short playersSounding strangely like some ’80s Paul McCartney reincarnation it’s hard to accept this kind of music as something written in recent times.
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Ross Drummond
By Paul Finnie • Oct 11th, 2008 • Category: demonstrationAcoustic Ross Drummonds inventive solo strumming culminates in two powerful demo tracks with their memorability built on the non stop double tracked vocals making up for the absence of other instruments.
Ten Storeys High
By Paul Finnie • Oct 11th, 2008 • Category: long playersEdinburgh’s acoustic four piece Ten Storeys High’s debut album glides on a cool dusk breeze from start to finish through eleven well balanced and immaculately produced tracks.
Injuns
By Paul Finnie • Oct 5th, 2008 • Category: short playersA dark, moody acoustic free flowing track, ‘Jake Of Monterey’ transforms from a worryingly low-key opening of slow voice and lone guitar into a pumping Bowie’esque art heavy mix of guitars and multitracked vocals.
The Zutons
By Paul Finnie • Oct 5th, 2008 • Category: short playersHaving previously seen and heard a tidy live acoustic version of this track my ears were suitably primed for the full-on full band cut and with major label backing this isn’t going to be anything less than polished, driving pop. I was right.
