Macon Heights
Wake Up (The War Machine) (Savage Recordings)
Macon Heights – a name taken from Philip K Dick’s 1953 short story ‘The Commuter’ – strive to put into music the displacement and isolation Dick articulated in his iconic writing.
Single review
Sickones
Agility (Independent)
Since forming in early 2016, hardcore punk band Sickones have released music of an increasingly high standard
Mt. Doubt
Caravans on a Hill (Last Night From Glasgow)
Edinburgh’s Mt Doubt have gifted us a lot of great tracks the last few years
Good Dog
Floating / Bumblebee (Lost Map)
Good Dog is the latest moniker for Lost Map artist Susan Bear, a veteran of Pictish Trial, Malcolm Middleton
Twisted Melons
Start Of The End (Melomania)
What an interesting time it is to revisit Scottish three-piece The Twisted Melons and their EP ‘Start of the End’
Gerils
Director's Cut (copyright control)
A Dundee band with distant links to Spare Snare, this quite ancient material has unexpectedly emerged
Asthmatic Astronaut (feat Jackal Trades)
Spirit World (This Is Not Pop)
This is a track from a forthcoming Asthmatic Astronaut release and features Girobabies’ Mark McGhee doing his Jackal Trades thing
Starless
Paper (Last Night From Glasgow)
Coming soon is a pretty monumental album (‘Earthbound’) instigated by Paul McGeechan with the “Starless” moniker.
Randolph’s Leap
Petrichor (Olive Grove)
Adam from the Leap has been very productive in these surreal lockdown times