Drowned in Scotland: July-August 2011
In this month's tartan-tinted musical tit-bits we get the latest on the The Edge Festival, the Big Splash and King Creosote's quest for Mercury glory...»
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chimpychompy has written the following articles:
Memory Tapes - Player Piano
For someone who’s naturally inclined to back his way into the shadows, Player Piano is the sound of a man taking a significant step forward.»
Chad VanGaalen - Diaper Island
For a record so intentionally bare, Diaper Island is clogged with innovation and ideas»
Drowned in Scotland: May-June 2011
In this month's tartan-tinted musical tit-bits we hear about T Break tantrums, King Tut's Summer Nights shindig and Detour Scotland's Wee Jaunt around Auld Reekie... »
Psychedelic Horseshit - Laced
Ladling Psychedelic Horseshit in amongst the lo-fi blurting of Wavves and Vivian Girls rejects the grandiose ambitions sought and often scaled throughout Laced's duration.»
Cat's Eyes - Cat's Eyes
It’s hard to believe a member of The Horrors could have shaped such a powerful piece of work as Cat’s Eyes.»
Meursault, Conquering Animal Sound, Jonnie Common at Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh, Sat 02 Apr
A band that sounds like its time is now.»
Deerhunter, Lower Dens at Oran Mor, Glasgow, Scotland, Mon 28 Mar
Make no mistake, this is a band at the height of its musical powers; a band that’s not scared to push beyond comfort zones or boundaries. »
Drowned in Scotland - March 2011
This month's Scottish dispatch centres on the forthcoming festival season, Withered Hand's SXSW stooshy and Jonnie Common's new deskjob...»
Left With Pictures - In Time
In Time’s formation certainly piques interest, but its contents are far from rousing.»
Found - Factorycraft
It may sound like a disarming shunt in direction, but with Factorycraft, Found challenge the notion that progress revolves around a spewing of effects-board wizardry.»
Drowned in Scotland - February 2011
In this month's Scottish oeuvre we talk South By South West, a missed opportunity bySound from the Cities, Detour Scotland's new You Tube venture and the start of the festival season...»
Yuck - Yuck
Yuck is the work of a band in its infancy; too engrossed in worshipping musical deities to lay down its own ideas.»
DiS meets Maps & Atlases
Before a recent show in Edinburgh we caught up with Maps & Atlases' guitarist Erin Elders to find out a little more about the band’s turn in sound, how they prepared for a less-than-welcoming reaction and the challenges of being successful in the modern day music industry…»
Maps & Atlases, Gallops, Lady North at Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh, Sun 30 Jan
Over the past five years Chicago four-piece Maps & Atlases have escaped math rock’s claws and advanced as a band lacking any obvious hole for a pigeon to reside. »
Sea of Bees - Songs for the Ravens
A distinctly prosaic affair that places Baenziger in the same awkward corner as KT Tunstall – a highly skilled artist who doesn’t always make best use of her ability.»
when saints go machine - Fail Forever
Glistening with electro-orchestral compositions, When Saints Go Machine's debut Fail Forever is the sort of ambitious post-club fare that slithers effortlessly between dancefloor-cradling wooze and the heavy trance of a 7am comedown. »
Drowned in Scotland - January 2011
Our tartan-tinged hack looks forward to a new year on the Scottish music scene, including the resurrection of rock, the dawning of new local heroes and Stuart Murdoch's first novel... »
DiS meets Mitchell Museum
In October, as part of our Glasgow Takeover, we spoke to quartet Mitchell Museum about what makes the city so special...»
Drowned in Scotland: November - December 2010
Our local scribe talks us through the rise and rise of Frightened Rabbit, venue closures, Christmas party gigs and much more...»
Over the Wall - Treacherous
Over the Wall have produced a shining debut LP, brimming with the sort of effervescent melodies Scotland hasn’t created since the early Eighties.»
Glasgow Day: DiS meets The Phantom Band
Over the past two years, The Phantom Band have been one of the leading lights on the Glasgow scene. The sextet’s debut LP, Checkmate Savage, was much lauded when it launched in 2009 and their subsequent live showings have proved the Phantoms to be a band »
A Decade of Glasgow bands
To reflect on the last 10 years of music in Glasgow, we thought we’d put together a round-up of the best bands to come out of the city during those 120 months. So, as a fool proof way of sorting out the cream from the crap, we asked the people who’ve play»
Glasgow Day: Chemikal Underground
Ask anyone involved in the Scottish music scene what the foremost label in the country has been over the last decade and they’ll all give you the same answer: Chemikal Underground. Spawned by members of seminal Glasgow outfit The Delgados, Chemikal was »
Drunk and dirty: What makes Glasgow the country’s most exciting music scene?
On the face of it, Glasgow isn’t a natural cultural epicentre. Renowned for its hard drinking locals, the city’s roots are entrenched in the staunch Labour supporting shipyards of the Clyde and the part-football, part-religious tensions of the Old Firm. »
Keep an eye on: 10 Glasgow bands
Despite playing home to a disproportionate wealth of top-drawer acts over the past decade, Glasgow’s conveyor belt of music shows no sign of slowing. So, as a quick rundown of some of the best music coming out of from the city’s streets, I’ve put together»
The Great Depression - Forever Altered
The Great Depression may appeal to the more mournful of heart, but what lies beneath Forever Altered's cover is a set of tatty pages with very little content»
DiScover: Maps & Atlases
In anticipation of Maps & Atlases' autumn venture across the pond, DiS caught up with Erin Elders to DiScover if the math-rockers' numbers add up»
Pram - Prisoner Of The Seven Pines EP
In standing tall as a singular entity, Pram’s Prisoner Of The Seven Pines bears resounding testament to the strength of the work that lies within »
Simian Mobile Disco - Sample And Hold
SMD's remix LP Sample And Hold drizzles attention-spans with infrequent showers rather than engulfing them in a waterfall-like continuum»