//20 August 2008
Last year, Biffy Clyro’s fourth studio album ‘Puzzle’ took them into the big-time with a higher profile than they had ever had before. Yet this collection of singles from their time with Beggars Banquet gives an excellent insight into their earlier days. [...]
Snow Tires is Unbunny’s fifth album. It was originally released in 2004, but only now gets its’ European issue, through German label Affairs Of The Heart with two extra tracks from a long-ago deleted EP. [...]
Formerly prime mover in Celtic metal-bashers the Nyah Fearties, Mr Luggs has thanks to ‘public’ demand’ decided to compile his best work together following several albums which were, we’re told, heavy on the ‘filler’. [...]
It is strange to think of Errors’ first album as a debut in the conventional sense: they are a band so vividly and brilliantly etched onto Glasgow’s musical landscape, that it seems they have always been there. [...]
Chris Bradley’s Voices is described as being anticipated. It should be, even if you’ve never heard of him before. To describe him as a talented singer, songwriter and guitarist is rather like saying that Tiger Woods is quite good at golf, or that the Williams’ sisters are rather good on the tennis court: an understatement that doesn’t begin to get to grips with the facts. [...]
Mods: scooter riding, pill popping, soul music obsessing teenagers from the 60s. At least, that’s the plan. Unfortunately since a Mr Austin Powers popped up, any trace of a 60s nightclub influence in music has been met with disdain and more than a little scorn. [...]
Mists rolling over purple hills, a noble stag standing proud against a frozen landscape and a shedload of great music – just a few of the things that come to mind when one thinks of Scotland. [...]
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