The return of Chvrches

About five years ago, I reviewed (Favourably) the debut EP from a band called Blue Sky Archives. It’s impressive to see just how far singer Lauren Mayberry has come. (And of course Iain Cook was in Aereogramme, the cruelly underrated Scots band of the 200s). Following on from a host of excellent singles and a great debut The Bones Of What You Believe, the band are due to release their justifiably anticipated album Every Open Eye on September 25.

The tracklisting for the album is as follows:

1.Never Ending Circles
2.Leave A Trace
3.Keep You On My Side
4.Make Them Gold
5.Clearest Blue
6.High Enough To Carry You Over
7.Empty Threat
8.Down Side Of Me
9.Playing Dead
10.Bury It
11.Afterglow

The lyric video for ‘Leave A Trace’ can be seen below:

Christmas Posts 2012 #13

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..and from one missed Scottish and Chemikal Underground act to another.

Tonight’s contribution comes from Aereogramme, who called it a day in 2007. Iain Cook and Craig B. now record together as The Unwinding Hours, who have featured on 17 Seconds.

Aereogramme -‘Asthma Came Home For Christmas.’ mp3

Trying to get my end of year lists together, it is not proving easy…

Christmas Posts 2011 #28

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Merry Christmas folks!

Have a good one, enjoy these – I will be taking down the links to all the Christmas songs once Boxing Day has been and gone.

See you soon,

Ed x

The Hives & Cyndi Lauper -‘A Christmas Duel.’ mp3

Basement 5 -‘Last White Christmas.’ mp3

Daniel Johnston -‘Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree.’ mp3

Half Man Half Biscuit -‘It’s Cliched To Be Cynical At Christmas.’ mp3

Elastica -‘All For Gloria (Peel session).’ mp3

Mew -‘She Came Home For Christmas.’ mp3

Aereogramme -‘Asthma Came Home For Christmas.’ mp3

Death Cab For Cutie -‘Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).’ mp3

Walkmen -‘While I Shovel The Snow.’ mp3

Dandy Warhols -‘Little Drummer Boy.’ mp3

Links taken down – it’s now after Christmas!

Christmas posts part 9

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The snow came back again today, leaving us to have a horrendous journey home from work.

Seriously unamused by all this now.

And it’s a year since our beloved cat Jake died.

Hmm…some music, methinks…

These tracks I have posted in the past, but not for some time, so hopefully these will be new to at least some of you!

Aereogramme -‘Asthma Came Home For Christmas.’ mp3

Mew -‘She Came home For Christmas.’ mp3

65 Days Of Static -‘I’m Dreaming Of A White Noise Christmas.’ mp3

Songs For Christmas XVIII

A Chemikal Underground special for you today!

First up, this is from the now-disbanded (sob!) Aereogramme:

Aereogramme -‘Asthma Came Home For Christmas.’ mp3

and two absolute classics from Mogwai (above):

Mogwai -‘Xmas Steps.’ mp3

Mogwai -‘Christmas Song.’ mp3

More to come… : ))

Six of One and a Dozen Of The Other


Well, the Jock’N’Roll albums poll may not have posted any results…yet – but I figured that you can never have too many reminders.

So here are six great Scottish bands, with two mp3s apiece. Enjoy!

Aereogramme – ‘Zionist Timing.’ mp3

Aereogramme -‘Wood.’ mp3

Arab Strap – ‘Cherubs.’ mp3

Arab Strap – ‘The Love Detective.’ mp3

Ballboy -‘Sex Is Boring (John Peel Session 21/3/00).’ mp3

Ballboy – ‘Sex Is Boring (John Peel Session 21/3/00).’ mp3

Delgados -‘American Trilogy.’ mp3

Delgados -‘Sink Or Swim.’ mp3

Sons and Daughters – ‘Johnny Cash.’ mp3

Sons and Daughters – ‘Dance me In.’ mp3

Teenage Fanclub – ‘What You Do To me.’ mp3

Teenage Fanclub – ‘It’s All In My Mind.’ mp3

As always, if you like what you hear, go and support the bands by checking out their MySpace sites and becoming their friends, buying the music from iTunes or Amazon or your local independent shop, seeing them in concert, and of course, voting for scottish acts at Jock’n’Roll

Hope you had a good Easter, Ed

The 100th post

(when I started writing the blog, I hadn’t got my cats. this is them, several months ago)

Well, and here we are! This is the 100th post I have done on the blog. Over the course of seven months, my interest in music, along with comments on teaching and hitting thirty have given me something to work on. Whilst I still dream of having as many readers as some of the other blogs, the feedback I have received has been flattering, and if I had as little rubbish to deal with at school as I do here, life would be easier!!

Thanks to my long-suffering girlfriend, and my family for their feedback, and friends and readers (of course, these are not necessarily mutually exclusive) who have helped this come along. I have learned more about computers along the way, and there’s probably fewer rants about it all now…

What I’ve done this time is just to pick ten great tracks, no theme, just stuff I love, and really hope you do too. As ever, if you like’em, do go and buy them.

Here’s to the next one hundred posts. Enjoy the music.