Track: OK Button – Verso
On new single ‘Verso’, OK Button bring challenging themes and breathtaking music together in perfect harmony. OK Button – Amber Wilson, Nass Donald and Adam Falkner – are gaining a reputation for creating dreamy synth-pop with refreshingly grounded lyrical observations on emotive issues such as loss, isolation, depression and anxiety. Their style of songwriting is …
News: Lost in Stereo share new track ‘Adrenaline’ and gear up for Download Festival appearance
Lost In Stereo get us buzzing for summer with the surge of new single ‘Adrenaline’. Pop-rock never goes away, does it? It’s one of those genres that can always be relied upon – a band with a big sound and catchy hooks can always get a crowd jumping, whatever their musical persuasion. Glaswegian four-piece Lost …
Album Review: Honeyblood – In Plain Sight
Stina Tweeddale goes solo and takes inspiration from her fears on Honeyblood’s epic third album In Plain Sight. We all have album releases that make us nervous – that make our hearts beat that little bit faster on first listen. They’re usually from an artist or band that you have high – maybe unreasonably – …
See: The Raptors – Your Dreams
The Raptors sink their teeth into a tour of their hometown in the video for latest single ‘Your Dreams’. This Glasgow-based four-piece were formed by Becca Murray (guitar and lead vocals) and Jane Lloyd (guitar and vocals) who were then joined by Jack Mata (drums) and Juana Adcock (bass and vocals). Latest single ‘Your Dreams’ …
News: Del Amitri Frontman’s Personal Collection Up For Grabs Here and Now
Justin Currie – frontman of Scots chart botherers Del Amitri – has unlocked his personal vault of memorabilia to raise money for a friend’s charity. Handwritten lyrics, a tour jacket and laminates, notebooks and a signed Fender guitar are just a few of the items that Del Amitri fans can get their hands on through …
Album Review: Siobhan Wilson – The Departure
Siobhan Wilson invites us to join her on an expedition through concepts of identity and independence on mesmerising new album The Departure. Siobhan Wilson is celebrating independence in many ways. Not only did she successfully crowdfund her new album The Departure (out on 10 May via Suffering Fools Records), but she is also releasing it …
Track: The Van T’s – Control
The Van T’s get set to dominate the airwaves again with powerful new single ‘Control’. ‘Control’ (out now via Big Indie Records and listen below), is another sucker punch of a single from The Van T’s. The Glasgow quartet – Chloe Van Thompson (vocals, guitar), Hannah Van Thompson (vocals, guitar), Joanne Forbes (bass) and Shaun …
Track: Aliens – Long Way To Run
Aliens demonstrate their collective power on new single ‘Long Way To Run’. Aliens is a music/film collective that began to take form in 2016 on the back of troubling world events – terrorism, Trump and Brexit, to name a few. Composer and producer Iain Harvie (of Scots rockers Del Amitri) and filmmaker, songwriter and singer …
Album Review: Idlewild – Interview Music
Idlewild explore variations on a dream with kaleidoscopic new album Interview Music. When Idlewild returned from a five-year break in 2015 with their anthemic album Everything Ever Written, it felt like reuniting with an old friend – as soon as you’re back in their presence for five minutes, it’s like you’ve never been separated. It …
See: Siobhan Wilson – Marry You
Siobhan Wilson departs from fragility and arrives in a fiercer place with the video for latest single ‘Marry You’. In 2017 Siobhan Wilson released her critically acclaimed album There Are No Saints. We adored it for its sheer beauty, but also the way it showed us a darker side to Wilson’s music that we had …