Deer Leader
Crocodiles (Last Night from Glasgow)
It’s the quiet ones you have to watch…
Single review
Kleopatra
Machina EP (labelname)
This latest four track EP by Glasgow’s Kleopatra takes her to new heights of dramatic electronica.
Kinbote
Hiermalis (Lost Map)
This single is the lead track from a forthcoming album, also on Lost Map Records, and it is very fresh and interesting.
Jameel Mason
Quarantine Mami (download)
Jameel Mason is the New Jersey rapper who is taking the world by storm
The Son(s)
Silver Fingers (Olive Grove)
This outfit hail from the East of Scotland and have a very melancholy vibe,
The Filthy Tongues
Pandemic Pete (Blokshok)
This is the second Filthy Tongues Covid offering and it is if anything better than the previous one (‘Gasmask Blues’). A dark, brooding treatise of our times, it encompasses plague dread, conspiracy theories and some really great riffing by the Filthies. There are Bowie references galore, Martin Metcalfe’s vocals sounding more sclerotic and ravaged than […]
Redolent
Aspartame (download)
This is an evocative piece of guitar-pop which soothes and excites in equal measure.
Starry Skies
I Want You to Know (Fox Star)
This is another ripping tune from Warren McIntyre and his Starry Skies…
Calboa
Admission (calboa)
Hull solo rocker Calboa is flying high with a track which is ear medicine for anyone who seeks the more cheerful and upbeat records in modern indie.