A glorious debut from Broken Chanter, surely the Scottish indie supergroup precision-tooled to beat the world.
It has been quite a while in the pipeline but it is well worth it. A rollcall of personnel now: David MacGregor (Kid Canaveral), Gave Prentice (Ultras), Audrey Tait (everything) and Jill O’Sullivan/Delorean (Sparrow & The Workshop, Bdy_Prts) with producer Gal twiddling the knobs, missus.
This could be a contender for single of the year, the track gradually building up with parped synths and tremulous guitar lines, MacG’s vocals speaking about the modernisation of The Highlands, maybe nostalgic but there are some great couplets as the full band come crashing in…
“Repetition turns to obsession”
“and you lose sight of it”
Are there repercussions of mental health fallout, anyway Jill’s amazing subtle backing vocals do the tracks, the drums pounding, the guitars ringing, the bass ploughing – BM has heard this live a few times and it does not lose its impact, truly a song for Scotland in 2019, and counting…