is this music?  an independent music magazine from scotland
//20 August 2008

Biffy Clyro

Singles 2001-2005 (Beggars Banquet)

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. [...]


//19 August 2008

Unbunny

Snow Tires (Affairs Of The Heart)

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. [...]


//18 August 2008

Mr Luggs

Lugness (Topplers)

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’. [...]


//25 July 2008

Errors

It’s Not Something But It Is Like Whatever” (Rock Action)

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. [...]


//19 July 2008

Chris Bradley

Voices (Splashing Duck)

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. [...]


//15 June 2008

Modus

Sounds From The Kitten Casino (Modus)

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. [...]


//15 June 2008

Various Artists

Breakout Scotland (Breakout Scotland)

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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