The Loon was a bit of a minor masterpiece, albeit one which started to wobble a little and run out of steam in the latter third of the album.
Walk it Off is a disappointment really - more of the same, but without much of the urgency and drive that made The Loon so good. [...]
The Long Blondes’ last album wasn’t bad, I thought. There were some excellent, catchy indie-pop songs with plenty of bounce and a bit of wit and sparkle to elevate them above the crowd, but all in all it was a decent album rather than a really good one.
This is one step down from that. [...]
Well well well, another week, another flutter through the pages of Edinburgh’s virtual classifieds for the finest tuneage known to man. Or at least, Edinburgh man. And woman. For this week.
Tuesday 8th April: Alex Cornish at The Ark.
Me old pal Alex will be playing at The Ark on Tuesday, so for Scotland’s finest dose of [...]
I bloody love Elbow. I don’t like all of their music, and I am not always a committed lover of their albums, but I love a bloody good chunk of it and as a band I reckon they genuinely are the dog’s bollocks. They emerged from Manchester at about the same time as [...]
