Released this Valentine’s Day, Fair Mothers’ collection of quiet, melancholic epistles to love on Separate Lives was something special. Granite-etched...
Scottish label Song, By Toad Records are celebrating their 10th birthday with a series of shows, with the first featuring the...
Siobhan Wilson has announced details of her new album There Are No Saints out 14th July 2017. The video for ‘Paris Est...
For our final Track Of The Day of 2016 we’ve gone with a suitably Christmas song, specifically this one by...
An unusual band name; a personal throwback to my more youthful days of...
Fair Mothers released one of the best under-the-radar Americana-folk albums of 2016, Through Them Fingers, Yours and Mine. It was blessed...
Album dedications don’t usually give you much of an idea about what to expect from an album. Then again, Adam...
It is difficult, nay nigh on impossible to listen to Split 12″ Vol . 6 without thinking about Robert Fisher....
Over the last couple of years, the blog and label Song, By Toad has put out a number of split...
A drum machine beat that thuds like a heartbeat, shrouded in a gaze flecked distorted mist: that’s pierced by Clio’s...
After 10 years of running the Edinburgh label as a space for outsider folk and beyond, in September 2018 the...
As tortuous routes to getting a debut out there go, Zed Penguin, the brainchild of Matthew Winter, takes some beating....
In 2014, Neil Pennycook announced that he was retiring Meursault and bowed out with a final performance at Edinburgh Queen’s...
Donnelly, once he has happened on a promising riff, proceeds to squeeze and shred every last ounce of melody from its pores, and curiously, it is this no-holds-barred approach which make the record so absorbing.
Independent Label Market have announced that they will be holding their very first market in Edinburgh on Saturday 11th October at The Pleasance Courtyard in partnership...