Calum Wood
She Wynds On: Snow Roads EP (Magic Park)
Someone at the Scottish tourist board has commissioned musician Calum Wood to write a set of tunes as part of an initiative to attract more tourists to the Cairngorms.
Album review
The Hector Collectors
Remember The Hector Collectors... You Won't Believe What They Sound Like Now! (Puzzled Aadvark)
BM owes a wee bit of a debt to these guys (it is called “declaring an interest” if you are in public office
Haiku Salut
There Is No Elsewhere (Prah)
It would be only too easy to run out of verbs when describing the third album from Haiku Salut.
L-Space
Kipple Arcadia (Last Night From Glasgow)
‘Dream pop’ is this quartet’s self-imposed genre, and for once the description couldn’t be more apt.
City and Colour
Guide Me Back Home (Dine Alone)
Every song here is greeted with a knowing whoop or an enthusiastic cheer.
Steven Page
Discipline: Heal Thyself, Pt. II (Fresh Baked)
It is a true refreshment to hear someone so in love with the idea of singer-songwriter as protester and voice of a generation
Richard Thompson
13 Rivers (Proper)
Round our house, a new album from Richard Thompson remains An Event.
