Meursault’s Off The Beaten Tracks Session
Meursault’s Off The Beaten Tracks session is online now. I wrote a wee piece to accompany the above video, which takes place beside the William Henry Miller Mausoleum in Craigentinny, which originally inspired the song. The article explains more, and it was fascinating to research. I can also be spotted somewhere at the back concentrating ...
Underappreciated Artists – Don’t Wait til They’re Dead
I was saddened by the deaths of Vic Chesnutt and Mark Linkous recently but haven’t written about it because I wasn’t as saddened as I should be. That’s because I didn’t really know their music as much as I should have, although in the case of Linkous I did have some Sparklehorse on cassette many ...
King Creosote’s 8th Bit of Strange in 14 Years
It really does feel strange posting an entire unreleased album by an artist on this blog as I’m usually pretty respectful about copyright and don’t post much that I don’t have prior permission (or at least implied permission) for. But this may be a new era of artist-authorised bootlegging, if Mr Kenny Anderson, aka King ...
Och The Week: Now Available at Song, By Toad
You thought I’d forgotten about ‘Scottish Music Sundays’ didn’t you? Well after the hysterically positive reaction to the first Och The Week I felt the title alone deserved a bigger audience, and so the next installment takes the form of a guest post for Song, By Toad. Here’s the link, you cannae miss it. OCH THE ...
Ten Tracks/Fanzine tie-in
Yes, if you’re on the Ten Tracks mailing list you’ll already be aware of this, but for those that aren’t, you can now get the PDF version of the Products of a Gaseous Brain Spring 2010 Catalogue free to download when you buy the I Hear a New World bundle over at Ten Tracks. ...
Musée Mécanique ‘HOLD THIS GHOST’ (album review)
Hold This Ghost feels like a proper record, a real collection of songs that works best listened to as a whole. Based around the songwriting partnership of Sean Ogilvie and Micah Rabwin, from Portland Oregon, Musée Mécanique are named after a collection of vintage amusement and musical instruments in San Francisco, aptly so because the ...
I Hear a New World is back! Featuring My Latest Novel, King Creosote, Musée Mécanique, David Tattersall (The Wave Pictures), Paper Planes & Broken Social Scene
So seeing as I’m trying to be as productive as possible as part of this whole ’100 Days to Get My Shit Together’ thing (no I hadn’t forgotten about it!) I thought it was about time I brought the podcasts back. This first, rather hurried one is mainly here to promote the Ten Tracks bundle ...
2009: The Ones That Got Away #5: Girls
I knew nothing about Girls before I listened to their album. I knew I liked it but I hadn’t listened enough to know how much in time for my top ten of the year. They’re simple songs really, Beach Boys, Buddy Holly, Elvis Costello, hell, Elvis-simple. Some of them do seem to be about girls, ...
2009: The Ones That Got Away #4: Kraftwerk: The Catalogue
Self-styled “Man Machine” Milo McLaughlin delves into The Catalogue, a box set of 8 remastered versions of classic Kraftwerk albums from 1975′s Autobahn to 2003′s Tour De France Soundtracks. Note: This was originally written in November previous to the release of the box set but was held back for the January 2010 issue of The Skinny Magazine ...
2009: The Ones That Got Away #3: Paper Planes – Doris Day
Can’t believe I didn’t listen to this one until now. This Glasgow band has all the ingredients that are likely to excite me: they count the likes of the Cramps, the Velvet Underground and Uncle John & Whitelock as their influences; they’re working with Lucky Number Nine and Say Dirty Records who have an excellent ...