Scottish Fiction Podcast - 5th June 2013

 

It's warm, it's sunny, Scotland don't quite suck as much as football as they did two days ago, and there's a whole heap of music packed into the latest episode of Scottish Fiction.  Oh and there's loads of tadpoles too, but that's completely unrelated to anything else.

Contained in this two hours is a Re-Mixing It Up track from Giant Fang and Prides, a Cover Lover track from Rachel Sermanni, new music from Lovers Turn To Monsters, Birdhead, Quickbeam, Galleries, Primal Scream and many more.  There's also a short documentary looking at the future of record shops.  Enjoy!


Primal Scream - Invisible City
Capitals - Sinking Ships
Book Group - BOP
eagleowl - eagleowl vs. woodpigeon

Cover Lover - Rachel Sermanni - Ae Fond Kiss

Lloyd James Fay - From The Eyewall
Frightened Rabbit & Manchester Orchestra - Architect
Sparrow And The Workshop - Valley Of Death
Birdhead - Time Lag Accumulator
Safe Houses - Phyrrhic

Tweet-a-track - Le Thug - Swam - As chosen by @dodpod24

Sean Armstrong - Midnight

Documentary - Broken Records: Have Record Stores Had Their Day?

Lovers Turn To Monsters - Skeletor
Quickbeam - Mountains
Scarlet Shift - Clouds
Human Pyramids - Relapse

Re-Mixing It Up - Giant Fang - Aqualung (Prides Remix)

How To Swim - Midnight Steak

Galleries - Great Comets (of 1910)

Halfrican - Guillotine

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Scottish Fiction Podcast - 17th April 2013

With Record Store Day looming on the horizon, Saturday 20th April in case you wondered, there's some rather specific chat about RSD 2013 events in independent record shops both here in Glasgow and over the M8 in Edinburgh.  There's also a raft of tracks which will be available to buy on lovely vinyl and tape, including CHVRCHES, Randolph's Leap and Zed Penguin.

Elsewhere there's new music from The Pastels, Prides, Camera Obscura and Adam Stafford, plus a Mogwai remix for 'Re-Mixing It Up', a cover by The Fratellis and your choice of track in 'Tweet-a-track'.  Get stuck in!

The Pastels - Check My Heart
Collar Up - In Love And Disgrace
Randolph's Leap - Gina
Zed Penguin - This Town
CHVRCHES - Now Is Not The Time
The LaFontaines - Light Up The Background

Tweet-a-track - Idlewild - (I Am) What I Am Not - Chosen by @pathunknown

The Streams - LemonHaze
Steve Heron - Picturesque
Camera Obscura - Do It Again
Future Glue - Crooked
Poor Things - Morgan
Garden Of Elks - Surfer Boy

Cover Lover - The Fratellis - All Along The Watchtower

Bacchanal Party - Mandy
Panda Su - Maps
United Fruit - Taste I Can't Give Up
Primal Scream - It's Alright, It's Ok
Prides - Out Of The Blue
Book Group - Year Of The Cat
Adam Stafford - Ghostly Arms

Re-Mixing It Up - Mogwai - San Pedro (The Soft Moon Remix)

The Duke, Detroit - Kids
Capitals - Reliever
Woodenbox - Courage


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T-Break 2012 - Let The Ranting Continue...

I wish the T-Break stage at T In The Park could get announced more often.  It's a hugely entertaining day, because of all the ranting, raving, moaning and conspiracy theories that surround the announcement of the 16 artists playing the stage at Scotland's biggest festival.  (Blogger Favourite Son kindly rounded the best up on his Facebook page if you're curious).

So I'm late to the party, but if you haven't seen it already here's the lucky (or otherwise if you are convinced of dodgy deals going on) 16 artists who are playing the T-Break stage at this year's T In The Park:

Anderson, McGinty, Webster, Ward & Fisher
Bacchanal Party
Beerjacket
Blank Canvas
Brown Bear & The Bandits
Capitals
Chris Devotion & The Expectations
Crusades
Davey Horne
Nevada Base
Open Swimmer
Randolph’s Leap
Roman Nose
TeKlo
The Machine Room
The Mirror Trap

Follow the link for each band to find out more about them.  There's some we've not heard of, some we plain don't like, and some we think are pretty awesome!  In particular check out our Scottish Fiction Session with Beerjacket, our Scottish Fiction January EP featuring Blank Canvas, and I'm sure we've played tracks from Capitals, Chris Devotion & The Expectations, Crusades, Open Swimmer, Randolph's Leap and The Machine Room on the show before if you care to explore our Scottish Fiction Podcasts.

Single/EP Review - Capitals - Sinking Ships / Jealousy

More double A side frolics, this time coming from Edinburgh based duo Capitals with their singles 'Sinking Ships' and 'Jealousy' which were released on Monday 12th March via their Bandcamp on a pay-as-you-wish basis.

The comparisons with Radiohead don't end in their decision to follow the Oxford band's 'pay-what-you-want' release format.  First single 'Sinking Ships' oozes with Radiohead's over driven guitars and drumbeats, not so in a way that it's a direct rip off, as Capitals sound comfortably settled into a sound they can make their own.  It's impressive to note that while this song sounds packed full of the power from a full band, Capitals are in fact an electronic duo.  The production on this track is outstanding, and beefs up all the elements to add real power to the underlying gloom.  Vocally, there is a magnetism to Angus' voice, which the music plays to.  I really like this track, it's wormed it's way into my subconscious without even trying too hard!

Second single 'Jealousy' is a chip of a similar styled block.  A well constructed bassline and drumbeat pick the pace up a notch in comparison to 'Sinking Ships'.  Again, I'm drawn to a Radiohead reference, as there's a feel of 'Jigsaws Falling Into Place' that I can't shake.  It's a sound that I like though, so I've no quibbles with this.  'Jealousy', as the name gives away, has a darker current running through it, but strangely for me is the more 'radio-friendly' of the two tracks.  It does gloom-rock much better than some of the bigger name pretenders have pulled off in the past.

Download Capitals 'Sinking Ships' / 'Jealousy' on a Pay-What-You-Want basis here

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