Yearly Archives: 2010

Factory Kids, Chris Bradley, Dirty Cuts…another 17 Seconds Records update

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It’s been a fantastically busy month around these parts. Following on from The Dirty Cuts’ ‘2 Page Spread’ single, the Factory Kids EP, The Wildhouse’s fi

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rst two albums being re-issued…well, what more to report?

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Tim and Christina, AKA the Factory Kids will issue their second EP, through us on April 5. The follow-up to EP1, which is also known as the You Used To Call Me Baby EP, will be One EP. Hey, Peter Gabriel made four different albums, all called Peter Gabriel, so what’s your point?

The EP will feature five tracks:
‘One’
‘I Won’t Tell You Again.’

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‘New York Subway Song.’
‘Holiday Crease.’
‘Valentine.’

…and the band have graciously allowed us to give ‘Holiday Crease’ away as a free mp3.

Factory Kids -‘Holiday Crease.’ mp3

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The Dirty Cuts’ ‘2 Page Spread’ has now been available for a month and getting some very nice comments. It was played last week by Vic Galloway on his Radio Scotland show, and it’s now available on 7″ from quite a few places: Avalanche in Glasgow and Edinburgh, Rub-a-Dub in Glasgow, Mono in Glasgow, Rough Trade Shops in London, and Underground Solush’n in Edinburgh. There are more t

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o follow. It’s quite cool, though, if you walk up Cockburn St. in Edinburgh you have Unde

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rground Solush’n at the bottom and Avalanche near the top and they both have the single in the window. Awesome…

If you still haven’t heard the band, shame on you, you may download the b-side for free.

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irty Cuts -‘Lips.’ mp3

Chris Bradley’s single ‘Waltzing’ is out today on download, he

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Finally, there are lots of live dates happening, please check the myspace. We also have two nights at Tigerfest in Edin

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burgh, which promises to be awesome, and yours truly is helping to run it. More details to follow…

Album Review – The Dawn Chorus

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The Dawn Chorus -‘The Carnival Leaves Town’ (Jelly Maid Music)

Jellymaid Music, based in Portsmouth, England, have been responsible for putting out a couple of gems. Last year it was The B Of The Bang’s Beginning. Middle. End and The Autons’ Who Do You Think You Are Kidding?– and this year it is the sophomore album from the Dawn Chorus.

Much as I loved ‘The Hope Will Kill Us’ from from the band’s debut album The Big Adventure, I wasn’t blown away by the parent album. But since this album arrived in my in-tray, it has enjoyed several listens and a definite thumbs up from yours truly. Comparisons have be

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en made with Gogol Bordello – not because they actually sound anything like them, but because of the spirit of the album. It truly is the spirit of a Carnival; arrival, show and departure all.

There’s thankfully no press release sporting a lot of crap about a thread running throughout the album, so it works both as an album in its’ own right and with some standout tracks. These would have to include ‘Carnivalesque’ (featuring Frank

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Turner which they’re chuffed to bits about) and ‘The Guilt.’ Is it a ‘concept’ album? Who knows? I

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t’s a hell of a lot of fun.

Musically, comparisons could be made with the likes of The Coral’s first album – the fact that some of these songs could be sea shantys, and rather like that first album, they’re throwing everything in there and making something wonderful. Broken Records, for the way the seem to be inocorporating bits of other ‘folk’ music (for want of a better label) and making something that is distinctively theirs. And like labelmates The B of the Bang, the feeling that they understand that a rimeless pop song does not mean it has to sound like another 1960s rip-off.

The band have grown considerably over the last couple of years, and hopefully this album will win the plaudits it so richly deserves.

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The Carnival Leaves Town is out now on Jelly Maid Music.

Go here to download the mighty ‘carnivalesque’ for free. All they ask for is your email, which seems pretty reasonable.

The Dawn Chorus website/The Dawn Chorus myspace

Presenting…David Scott & the Smokescreen!

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…AKA 17 Seconds Records’ latest signing.

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ssistants and Meat Whiplash) and Riverhead. Now based in Kentucky, he released his album Love Is Life Is Death Is Peace, Release Me last year.

We will be re-releasing it this year, and David is planning to come to the UK to do some dates.

For now, enjoy this very fine track as a free sample of what to expect.

David Scott & The Smokescreen -‘Black Death.’ mp3

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Album Review – The Unwinding Hours

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Fifteen years into their existence, Glasgow’s Chemikal Underground label continue to put out music that makes you realise just how essential they are to the development of music in Scotland and further afield. It may even make sense to speak of there beinga ‘Chemikal Underground aesthetic’ and the latest release from The Unwinding Hours is a welcome addition to a fine catalogue that includes some of the greatest albums of the last fifteen years, period.

That’s not to say that the debut from the Unwinding Hours is going over old ground. Far from it. As has been documented over the last month, The Unwinding Hours is a project from Iain Cook and Craig B of the much-missed Aereogramme. Nut to dismiss this simply as Arereogramme part 2 would be to miss the point. The Unwinding Hours are a great act in their own right, and the whispers about how good this album is are getting louder and louder.

It starts off with the fantastic ‘Knut’ which has beeen doing the rounds as a free download for sometime now. The greatest track of the year so far, it is i

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being followed by a succession of songs that sound exactly like it. ‘Tightrope’ is gently anthemic and ‘Solstice’ has hints of electronica. Yet still the power of the full-on from a whisper to a scream crescendoes makes its’ presence felt, as does the beautiful sadness that hangs over

Perhaps what makes this album so special is that rather than being conceived as a result of a few jams or hastily written songs, it had a slow and gentle gestation period. Bizarrely, when Craig started writing the songs he wasn’t even ex

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pecting a commercial release. Now there are tentative plans for a second album.

On the evidence of this, yes please, and in your own time, guys. If this isn’t a frequent appearance on the end of year best-of lists, then people have no ears.

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The Unwinding Hours -‘Knut.’ mp3

The Unwinding Hours is out now on CD and download on Chemikal Underground. The vinyl will be available from March 15.

The Unwinding Hours’ website/The Unwinding Hours myspace

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The return of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

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Back in 2002, on the NME Bratbus tour in Glasgow, I saw Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. They performed a set so intensive and brilliant that I was moved to decide I was going

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they blew me away and had I been writing this blog then, their debut would have topped the album chart that year.

Since then…well, I never loved the successive albums as much as the first but there were unquestionably moments of genius along the way. The main thing about BRMC was seeing them live (apart from the

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Anyway, they are back to kick a serious amount of arse if this track is anything to go by, taken from their new album Beat The Devil’s Tattoo.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club -‘Conscience Killer.’ mp3

Album Review – Ruth Theodore

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Ruth Theodore -‘White Holes Of Mole Hills.’ (River Rat Records)

The follow-up to her critically acclaimed album Worm Food, this demonstrates that Ruth Theodore is unquestionably a talented performer and someone who is certainly determined to challenge perceptions of what a female folk-singer might be like. This album has some fantastic arrangements on it a

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nd a delivery that gives the impression that on a stage she is absolutely spellbinding. The guitar playing is pretty powerful, too.

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eally translate to the first part of the record, and I must confess to having had to listen to this album in chunks rather than being able to take it all in one sitting. It is, at times, a little too clever for its’ own good. In trying to play with the idea of conventional songwriting – no bad thing in itself, and a fairly laudable aim – it can make it a little hard to approach this as an album. Mercifully short on the histrionics that let down many singer-songwriters (we feel your pain – literally -IN OUR EARS), it’s so impassioned and dreamy tha

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t there are times this record could make the most twee of twee-pop kids want to grate kittens.

There are many performers who tread the very thin line between kooky and creative. Thing is, for my money, I love Kate Bush and Bjork, and have a lot of time for the likes of Joanna Newsom and Tori Amos. And depressingly, the song that appeals the most is that comapar

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tively stripped down ‘The Evolution Of Mr. Charisma.’

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**1/2

Ruth Theodore’s myspace

Album Review – Efterklang

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Efterklang -‘Magic Chairs.’ (4AD)

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rom the opening track ‘Modern Drift’ the scene is set: simple and effective pop melodies that are joyous yet with an underlying current of sadness underneath.

Like many of the best albums, this is an album that begs for repeated playing. This is not because it’s hard to get into – on the contrary – but because the subtlety of the musical layers means that each successive play reveals some

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Rather like fellow Danes Mew, Efterklang appear to be playing a genre of music that we might almost be tempted to call post-rock pop, if it wasn’t for the fact that the concept sounds so much like citrus mixed with dairy. But it’s the inventiveness of post-rock – a fairly anti-single type of music mixed with the structure of a good classic pop song -and few musics are as single friendly as pop music. Fans of Broken Records (now labelmates of Efterklang) may find much

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to enjoy here as well, in terms of music that is orchestral, yet a thousand miles away from the syrupy MOR that usually implies.

Oh, sod it, it’s a bloody great album. Just make sure you hear it!

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Efterklang -‘Modern Drift.’ mp3

Efterklang’s website/Efterklang’s myspace

The Wildhouse album (re-)releases!

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Yup, the Wildhouse re-release their debut and sophomore albums through 17 Seconds Records today. Hyenas and Poet:Sain

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A round up of some great new Scottish music

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Just as it says on the tin, folks. The fact that I’m doing this together should not be taken as me trying to do the bands concerned down by featuring them together, but rather that I’m trying to spread the word.

X-Lion Tamer you almost certainly know by now. He did a session for Vic Galloway on Radio One the other night, including three of his own songs and a cover of ‘Starsign’ by Teenage Fanclub. Like all the best acts, the three songs of his own that Tony plays ‘I Sais Stop’ ‘Neon Hearts’ and ‘Life Support Machine’ are hugely diffreent to what they sound like on his EP. Peenko Blog are hosting it here:

X-Lion Tamer on Peenko blog

I’ve featured Mitchell Museum on here before. They are soon to release their debut album The Peters Port Memorial Service and are giving away some older stuff for free, six tracks i

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n all, via their Bandcamp page. This six track EP is called ‘We Lost First Prize.’

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A few weeks ago, I mentioned Annie Stevenson, who have now made their demo available to download for free from their Last FM page. Four tracks in all, and very good it is too!

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Galleries were also played on Vic Galloway the other night, and if you haven’t downloaded their free EP shame on you!

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Oliver Stays are a new band formed from the ashes of Jocasta Sleeps, Drive-By Argument and Atlas Skye. They’ve only been together since November but their myspace shows that this is a band with promise, make sure you hear them now! Jim over at Aye Tunes is also championing them.

Oliver Stays’ myspace

The Kays Lavelle are soon to release their debut album – entitled Be Still This Gentle Morning – this track is available as a free download and it’s ace. One of my favourite tracks this year. As John Peel used to say, ‘this track fades in slowly.’

The Kays Lavelle -‘The Hours.’ mp3

Thanks due to Aye Tunes, Peenko and Song, By Toad for all keeping me on my toes when it comes to new scottish music!