This isn’t new - it’s poppy, guitar driven songs complete with upbeat drums, melodic punky bass lines and a singer that sounds like what you would expect from the impossible lovechild of Ian Curtis and Morrissey. [...]

Rock ‘n’ ghoul music. Songs about having “holes in your neck,” “coughin’ in the coffin,” and seeing no reflection, kind of sum it up, really. [...]

In the beginning The Little Kicks’ gig at Barfly looks like it could go horribly wrong. [...]

My Bloody Valentine deafened half the population of Scotland earlier this year with an astonishing comeback set at the Glasgow Barrowlands. And it seems the magnificent Twilight Sad have put paid to the ears of those still able to hold a proper conversation. [...]

On first listen, this is so laid back it literally sounds like it was recorded lying down. Held back, understated, and a little lounge, ‘Ten Pound Bag’ is an inoffensive, acoustic affair but with an underlying sense of ‘cool’, a bit like a far better Turin Brakes with a drum machine. [...]

More Scots accents (hurrah) as the, er, three-piece reference Mogwai, Yo La Tengo… and Pat Nevin. All promising before we’ve even started [...]

LGM are a Edinburgh 3-piece, making meat’n'potates rock. It’s obvious on ‘What You’re Looking For‘ that they do it well [...]