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There’s very few videos that have ever reduced me almost to tears. One is ‘Hurt’ by Johnny Cash (if that doesn’t make you wanna weep, you have no soul). The other is this by Hiatus.

This track is called ‘Insurrection’ and features vocals from the legendary dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson (absolute legend -actually met him him at the Edinburgh Book Festival in 2002!). This track remembers the Brixton Riots of 1981. Both Hiatus and Linton Kwe

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si Johnson call Brixton home. Though the area has changed over time, when people go on about 1981 being the year of the Royal Weddin

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g of Charles & Diana, they should remember that the folks in many cities had more pressing concerns: Unemployment, racial harassment, police harassment, inner cities burning…plus ca change la meme chose, as the French say.

This video looks like it’s from news footage of the time, and if this doesn’t make you burn with righteous indignation…God help you. The Tory politician Norman Tebbit had the insolence at the time to say that ‘My Father didn’t riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.’ (Screw you, Tory scum.) My A-Level Politics teacher used to say that ‘Riots are the ballot box of the poor.’ She was unquestionably right.

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Album review – Jonny

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Jonny -‘Jonny’ (Turnstile)

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s did do backing vocals for Teenage Fanclub’s most recent album, Shadows. Given the acts with which they are most associated, the album generally feels more Euros-driven than Norman. With the exception of the tracks ‘Circling The Sun’ and ‘The Goodnight’ which feel much more like Norman and ver Fannies.

Overall, this is a very good, solid album. ‘Cave Dance’ is the album’s standout track, starting as a Super Furry Animals-style knees-

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While this album offers no real surprises, and doesn’t reallyrate as being amongst the best projects that eitehr has been involved in, it is nevertheless a pleasant listen an

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Jonny is out now on Turnstile.

This EP doesn’t contain any of the tracks from the album, but it’s free and it’s very lovely indeed.

presenting…exlovers

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exlovers reflect that an elephant would have been just a bit, too, y’know, obvious…

Is guitar pop dead? Not as far as I’m concerned. And the nineties revival seems to be just around the corner…

exlovers are just about to release thier fourth single. Released on Young & Lost Club, ‘Blowing Kisses’ and ‘Moth-eaten Memories’ are two grogeous tracks that say nineties all over again…and yet feel utterly fresh, exciting and necessary.

exlovers were formed by Peter, the singer along with guitarist Chris, singer Laurel, bassist Danny and drummer Brooke at the end of 2007. This single is utterly more-ish, I can’t stop playing it, and I don’t find myself thinking about how or what it reminds me of, rather just what a great single and b-side. In fact, I’ve found over the last two or three weeks I often play the entire thing back to back several times. There’s an album on the way, too, recorded at Rockfield Studios with Demian Castellanos and Jimmy Robertson, which will be out later this year.

Stream the single below -and download the b-side for free!

Blowing Kisses Single by exlovers

They’re midway through a tour now -and the dates remaining are as follows:

February
Thursday 24th Bath Moles
Saturday 26th Brighton Jam
Monday 28th London The Lexington

March:
Wednesday 2nd Birmingham HMV Institute
Thursday 3rd Glasgow King Tut’s
Saturday 5th Oxford The Cellar

As ever, let me know what you think!

Album review – Luxury Car

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Luxury Car -‘When I Was Good.’ (Biphonic Records)

Having released both the Swimmer One and Seafieldroad albums last year, 2011’s first release sees Biphonic continuing to build upon their reputation as purveyors of fine, Scottish electronic pop. Luxury Car is songwriter John Robertson (guitars, keyboards, vocals) and Kieran Heather (bass), and was recorded with John’s brother William.

A seven track album with many excellent moments, this is more experimental than either Swimmer One or Seafieldroad. There’s a gorgeous melancholia present here, particularly on ‘I Play The Guitar.’ It’s also a wonderfully atmospheric album, with a lot of unusual

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ote in an earlier piece on them: ‘Think The Blue Nile. Think Boards Of Canada. Think Errors…and think it in the same act.’

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gain. The only thing that seems a little odd is the placement of ‘Shame’ at the end of the album. After six tracks of electronica, it almost seems a little incongruous to have a piece that’s solo acoustic guitar and vocal.

No matter. This is a fine piece of work.

****

Luxury Car – When I Was Good (sampler) by Biphonic Records

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Get ready…for this!

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Kurt Vile (as opposed to Kurt Weill!) was one of those names that I had become increasingly aware of of the last few years, but his latest, forthcoming album, Smoke Ring For My Halo has already had a number of plays at and around 17 Seconds Towers.

While the phrase ‘singer-songwriter’ has become something which i have started to dread, Mr. Vile totally transcends the image of the average singer-songwriter. No anodyne, glossy mush; instead this is a collection of songs infused with his own spirit, which doffs its’ cap to folk, alt. country and even the blues, but without descending into the

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Kurt Vile -‘In My time.’

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Presenting…Letters

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Edinburgh five-piece Letters have certainly got parts of the blogosphere in a tizzy already.

They are: Mikey Ferguson (Lead Vocals/guitar), Georgie Williamson (Cello/Vocals), Kerr Donaldson (Drums),

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Dougie Fuller (Bass) and Ed Ellis (Guitar, Vocals). They just released their first, free-download only single ‘Grand National/Pipe Dreams’ last week. The Pop Cop declared them ‘the hottest new band in Scotland’ on his blog, before they’d played a gig. Their debut gig was the launch for the free single, which saw them supporting the Last Battle at Henry’s Cellar Bar (a great night, by the way!). They’ve also been championed over at Kowalskiy, for whom they gave this rather

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Let me know what you think…

17 Seconds Records update!

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First up, on March 21, we will release a new EP by The Wildhouse, entitled Good Morning, Captain.

It’s a four track release featuring four new songs:

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Download ‘Palatine’:

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The Wildhouse play Drouthys, Dundee, on March 3.

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Fiction Faction have a couple of gigs lined up for March in Glasgow. They join the bill at the 13th Note on the 2nd March with The Heebie Jeebies, Bwani Junction, and Johnny Reb. Additionally, they are supporting Scanners at the Captain’s Rest on March 29.

Album Review – Ringo Deathstarr

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There’s a lot of shoegazing going on here, with nods to My Bloody Valentine, Lush and Ride, as well as to more grungier icons like Dinosaur Jr. The song titled are classic shoegazing, too -‘Kaleidoscope’ ‘Day dreaming and recent single ‘So High.’ So is it simplu a pastiche of classic albums like Bug, Loveless and

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For an album by anyone, it would be good. For a debut album, it’s mightily impressive. Ringo Deathstarr have lived up to the promise of that debut EP and produced one of the albums of the year.

****1/2

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Album review – Megaphonic Thrift

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Megaphonic Thrift -‘Decay decoy.’ (Club AC30)

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It’s music to lose yourself in, in the best possible way. There’s tracks like ‘Candy Sin’ with its’ walls of feedback, interspersed with more reflective guitar work. Ultimately -irrespective of whether there’s a

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..and this is an excellent album.

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Album Review – Zoey Van Goey

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This is not to write the album off; on the contrary, there’s a lot to recommend here. It does however see them expand their musical palette beyond the parameters of their earlier release. First single ‘The Cake And Eating It’ nods to post-punk guitar freakouts and ‘Escape maps’

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features some military drumming. There’s also a continuing of their wonderful humour, in this case the brilliantly titled ‘You Told The Drunks I Knew Karate.’ In this song our heroes are chased right the way across Glasgow from the Great Western Road to the East End by a gang of drunks. Rather like ‘Two White Ghosts’ on their debut, it’s irreleveant whether it’s actually true or not; it is, however, utterly believable and the highlight of the album.

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Propellor Versus Wings is out now on download Chemikal Underground and released physically on February 28.

***1/2

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Zoey Van Goey play the following live dates:

Saturday 19th February: Zanzibar Club, Liverpool
Sunday 20th February: The Slaughtered Lamb, London
Monday 21st February: Gaslight Club, Leeds
Saturday 5th March: Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh