Scottish Fiction Radio Show - 10th September 2015

This week's show takes in another bunch of great new Scottish music including tracks from Bossy Love, The Insomniac Project, CHVRCHES, and Turtle.  Add another track to the Scottish Fiction Playlist, get some Beach House snuck in there too and you've got all the makings of a great show.

Add in the friendly chat and beautiful music of Bella and the Bear live in session too and that's just spoiling you!  With three live tracks, plus chat about the bands forthcoming new EP 'A Girl Called Bella', get stuck in and enjoy!

Seconds - When He Calls
The Insomniac Project - In and Out (of My Head)
Bella and the Bear - Little Boat (Live in Pulse 98.4 Studio)
Earths - Kangerlussuaq
Flakes - to dine by your side
Bella and the Bear - Sleeping Patterns (Live in Pulse 98.4 Studio)
Ben Howard - I Forget Where We Were - As chosen by Bella and the Bear
AROUND THE WORLD - Beach House - Sparks
PLAYLISTED TRACK - CARBS - Life Drawing
PLAYLISTED TRACK - Forever - Loose
PLAYLISTED TRACK - WOMPS - Live A Little Less
PLAYLISTED TRACK - HQFU - Dust & Dirt
Bella and the Bear - Magaluf (Live in Pulse 98.4 Studio)
CHVRCHES - Never Ending Circles
Yutani - All's Well That Ends Well
Turtle - Calculate
Bossy Love - Tell You What
Prehistoric Friends - Bermuda Triange

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Scottish Fiction Radio Show - 30th July 2015

There's something pretty special about live music on radio.  It's the aspect of doing this whole Scottish Fiction hoo-la that I enjoy the most.  So it was such a delight to get back to hosting Scottish Fiction Sessions as I welcomed Dec '91 into the studio for a chat and live music.  We spoke about music, travelling, our upcoming Scottish Fiction Presents gig, as well as all sorts of other nonsense.

Making up the rest of the show, there's a new Playlist addition from Tongues, music from Yutani, Turtle, and Holy Esque, and stunning Re-Mixing It Up track from Outblinker via Machines In Heaven. 

Turtle - The Floor
Be Charlotte - Face
Mt. Doubt - Asunder
Dec '91 - I'll Try To Let You Know (Live in Pulse 98.4 Studio)
Shona Brown - All I Have
Akela - Past Sunrise
Dec '91 - Bad Man (Live in Pulse 98.4 Studio)
AROUND THE WORLD - Girlpool - Before The World Was Big
PLAYLIST - SEØUEL - Fear Party
PLAYLIST - CARBS - Life Drawing
PLAYLIST - Tongues - Religion
PLAYLIST - Womps - Live A Little Less
Rachel Sermanni - Everything Is OK
Dec '91 - Catherine (Live in Pulse 98.4 Studio)
Holy Esque - Strange
Damn Teeth - I.D.N.F.I.N.M.
RE-MIXING IT UP - Outblinker - Pink (Machines In Heaven Remix)
Yutani - Mt. Minakami


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That's My Jam #56 - Turtle - Silent Weapon

Jon Cooper, the real name behind the musical moniker of Turtle, has been causing a bit of a frenzy amongst muso types with his spacious and luscious electronic music.  The trend continues with Silent Weapons  a track off his forthcoming second EP Colours.

Featuring whispy vocals, complete with mysterious lyrics, atop hazy electronica, the track really ignites in the final third with pulsing synths and floating guitars whirling round together in a seductive mating ritual.  It's a different dimension to the music of Turtle, intelligent and emotional leaving a real embedded connection with the listener.

Scottish Fiction Podcast - 2nd March 2015

This week's show is absolutely stacked with great new music which more than makes up for the fact that I can hardly talk.  Covering all bases there's music from Hector Bizerk, the new single from Foreignfox, hazy pysch pop from LYLO, a vocal led track from Turtle, rich instrumental from digitialanalogue and much much more.  Make sure to check out each artist if you like the cut of their jib.

Young Fathers - Rain or Shine
Jonnie Common - Binary 101
Kill The Waves - Vow
Lush Purr - Rut
Errors - Slow Rotor
Hector Bizerk - Skin and Bone
Mayor Stubbs - Abandon Ship
Sorren Maclean - Rows & Rows of Boxes
COVER LOVER - Rachel Sermanni - I Want You Back
Ashley Park - Long Good Night
Death Let Her - A Picture of the Times
Thirty Pounds of Bone - Ribbon
Trapped Mice - When I Sleep
digitalanalogue - ID 83846 (Don't Look Down)
Spinning Coin - Hanging Gown
Lylo - Separate and Sway
Turtle - Silent Weapons
C Duncan - And I
Mt. Doubt - Asunder
Foreignfox - Frostbite
UNIFORMS - Pink Couch
Pinact - Anxiety
RE-MIXING IT UP - Wozniak - Five Star (in violet remix)
Shona Brown - Your Silence Is So Loud
Tongues. - Anymore


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Scottish Fiction Podcast - 8th February 2015

Reppin' Aberdeenshire, and more recently Glasgow, my session guest on this show is the immensely talented, not to mention modest, Yusuf Azak.  His albums, most recently Peace in the Underworld and before that Native Son,  contain more ideas than many artists manage in an entire career, a style born out of experimentalism and free form.  In amongst chatting about his music, Yusuf performed three tracks live in the studio all of which are here for your listening pleasure.

Your new music fix can be sated with cuts from The Duke, Detroit, Baby Strange, Tijuana Bibles, Turtle, and C Duncan.  Hook in and enjoy!

Withered Hand - King of Hollywood
Michael Cassidy - 15 Years
Tijuana Bibles - Sun Chaser
The Insomniac Project - Shake Those Demons
Yusuf Azak - Silver Rose (Live in Pulse 98.4 Studio)
The Phantom Band - Tender Castle
RE-MIXING IT UP - Admiral Fallow - Paper Trench (Miaoux Miaoux Remix)
The Duke, Detroit - Iconic
Malcolm Middleton and David Shrigley - Dear Brain
Yusuf Azak - Go Native (Live in Pulse 98.4 Studio)
Lady North - Bum Jiggy - As chosen by Yusuf Azak
Baby Strange - VVV
Catholic Action - Somebody Made For Me
OSKAR - WILDINGS
The Twilight Sad - I Could Give You All That You Don't Want
Yusuf Azak - Eastern Son (Live in Pulse 98.4 Studio)
Turtle - Colours
C Duncan - Say
COVER LOVER - Pinact - You Gave Your Love To Me Softly
Atom Tree - Sinner
Prides - Higher Love


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Single Review - Turtle - Lavender

In a style quite befitting of his title, Glasgow-based producer Turtle (aka Jon Cooper) has surfed into 2015 atop a wave of growing interest.

Last year's Who Knows  EP, a curiously compelling marriage of ambient electronica and oddball chamber-pop, whilst turning the collective head in his direction asked more questions than it gave answers.  If anything, current release Lavender  serves to bolster this mercurial stock.  By the end of the opening minute Cooper has reasserted his adeptness in the art of subtle misdirection, as grandiose organ-based bellowing is gradually undercut by shuffling percussion and a soft but serpentine bass groove.  The introduction, with equal guile, of a cyclical vocal refrain means that by its conclusion Lavender  has flirted with the anthemic, without losing any grip of an enigmatic restraint which by now appears to be a Turtle trademark.

Amidst a parochial preference for the overwrought and the earnest it is perhaps unsurprising that Cooper cites influences from far and wide – Iceland's Olof Arnolds and Mum among them.  For those less familiar with esoteric Scandinavian electronica this reviewer is inclined to reference the more ethereal elements harnessed by early day Moby's blending of traditional and digital instrumentation.  Whilst it is of course only right to apologise to Mr Cooper if such a comparison is deemed unflattering, it is also salient to remind him that Moby is  doing really rather well for himself.

- Jack Wilson

Turtle - Lavender  is out now via Beatnik Creative and can be purchased here or via all good online music retailers.

Scottish Fiction Podcast - 26th January 2015

Blog favourite Michael Cassidy returns to Scottish Fiction as our session guest for a record 4th time, ahead of the release of his debut album My Electric Heart  on Monday 2nd February, a sentence which gives me a great deal of delight having waited for it's release to close on two and a half years.  Chatting about the album, and the launch gigs, it's the three live tracks; all taken from the album; which are the real treat.

The show is also packed out with new music from Kapil Seshasayee, Kathryn Joseph, Monogram, and a Song, By Toad booster pack of Supermoon, Garden of Elks, Numbers Are Futile and digitalanalogue.  Plus there's a Re-Mixing It Up track from a well known artist who I've never played on the show before.

Garden of Elks - This Morning We Are Astronauts
Tuff Love - That's Right
Kapil Seshasayee - Crimes
Eastcoastdefector - The Lonliness of the Lightspeed Astronaut
Michael Cassidy - Real Love - Live in Pulse 98.4 Studio
Supermoon - Klopfgeist
Kathryn Joseph - the bird
Seafieldroad - Don't Let The Winter Freeze Your Heart
CLASSIC TRACK - Teenage Fanclub - Mellow Doubt
Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo - Vulture People
Michael Cassidy - Everybody's Scared - Live in Pulse 98.4 Studio
Ella Fitzgerald - Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye - As chosen by Michael Cassidy
digitalanalogue - Cafe Royal
Monogram - Anno (mute)
Turtle - Universal Ra
very very small inclusions - Winter Solstice
RE-MIXING IT UP - Paolo Nutini - Iron Sky (Hudson Mohawke Remix)
Numbers Are Futile - Vice Over Reason
Michael Cassidy - 15 Years - Live in Pulse 98.4 Studio
Civil Elegies - The Answer, The Problem
Rollor - Pax Britannica
Poor Frisco - A Tick Ahead


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Scottish Fiction Podcast - 11th January 2015

2014 had so much incredible music that we can't quite cut the apron strings just yet, which is why on this first new Scottish Fiction show of 2015, we've plumped for playing a whole heap of our favourite tracks from last year.  A little late perhaps, but don't think of this as a definitive list (as I could easily fill another two hour show with great songs from last year) but as a selection of some of the music that floated our audible boat in 2014.  Tunes from Campfires In Winter, Prehistoric Friends, Monogram, Tuff Love, ULTRAS, Hector Bizerk and much much more are all nestled in this episode.

Vasa - Not A Cop
Conquering Animal Sound - The Next Day
Monogram - Romance
Foreignfox - Yoghurt
Skinny Dipper - Hospital Bed
Boygirlanimalcolour - JUPITER FIST
United Fruit - Open Your Eyes
The Phantom Band - The Wind That Cried The World
Book Group - Here Is Too Near
Campfires In Winter - We'll Exist
Stanley Odd - Son I Voted Yes
Hector Bizerk - A Pearl Paints A Thousand Pictures
Machines In Heaven - Feel Slow
Mogwai - Teenage Exorcists
Turtle - Lavender
Siobhan Wilson - Dear God
Gone Wishing - The Watchers
Behold, The Old Bear - Restless Day
Wozniak - Paper Hat
C Duncan - For
ULTRAS - This Is Where I Fall
Deathcats - Liquid Gold
Tuff Love - Slammer
Prehistoric Friends - Wisdom Tooth
Roxy Agogo - Crocodiles


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Scottish Fiction Podcast - 15th December 2014

Scottish Fiction gets Christmassy on this week's show as some Christmas tunes both old and new slip into the playlist along side new music from Errors, Collapsible Mountains, Turtle and Vasquez.  T'is the season and all that. 

Keeping things festive are my session guests Campfires In Winter, who joined me in the studio for a stripped back session ahead of their Christmas gig at Sloans on Wednesday 17th December.  The band played three tracks, including a never before heard exclusive, and chatted about their plans for an album next year.

Belle and Sebastian - The Party Line
The Son(s) - Christmas Song
Broken Records - My Beer Drunk Soul Is Sadder Than All The Dead Christmas Trees In The World
Campfires In Winter - We'll Exist - Live in Pulse 98.4 Studios
Collapsible Mountains - Hope
COVER LOVER - Randolph's Leap - One More Sleep 'til Christmas
Now Wakes The Sea - Bear
Errors - Lease Of Life
Campfires In Winter - Janus - Live in Pulse 98.4 Studios
Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers - Believe In Yourself - As chosen by Campfires In Winter
Lady North - Monster Wants A Kiss
Vasquez - Thumbmusic
RE-MIXING IT UP - The Phantom Band - Women of Ghent (Miaoux Miaoux Remix)
Turtle - Lavender
Campfires In Winter - White Lights - Live in Pulse 98.4 Studios
Deathcats - Sprint
Ballboy - Merry Christmas To The Drunks, Merry Christmas To The Lovers
Das McManus - Not My Words
Honeyblood - Biro
CLASSIC TRACK - Travis - Driftwood
Frightened Rabbit - It's Christmas So We'll Stop


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Scottish Fiction Podcast - 19th August 2014

We start off high octane on this week's show with the first cut from Bear Arms' new album.  Actually this week's show is a real musical journey, with a gloriously landscaped track from A Sudden Burst Of Colour, some sweet meloncholy from Skinny Dipper, and the exciting new single from Holy Esque.  All this and more within this very podcast.  Open it up and gorge on the feast of music.

Bear Arms - Courage
We Were Hunted - Safe And Sound
Roxy Agogo - Crocodiles
Holy Esque - Sovereign
A Sudden Burst Of Colour - Yume
Lilac Pin - Easy
Broken Records - So Long, So Late
Skinny Dipper - Hospital Bed
Eliza Shaddad & Turtle - Driftwood
Best Girl Athlete - Best Girl Athlete In School
The Great Albatross - Roots


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Scottish Fiction Podcast - 1st July 2014

Yo back up now and give a brother room, because I've got a lot of records to play and you know I need space man, get outta my space!  On this latest podcast from Scottish Fiction, your one stop shop for the best new Scottish music, you'll find a whole heap of post-rock electronica by way of Turtle, Our Smallest Adventures and Remember Remember.  I also unleash the new singles from Andrew Pearson & Lovers Turn To Monsters and Randolph's Leap.  Hows about that!

Franz Ferdinand - Stand On The Horizon
Sparrow And The Workshop - Valley Of Death
Andrew Pearson & Lovers Turn To Monsters - Another Dawn
Randolp's Leap - I Can't Dance To This Music Anymore
Remember Remember - La Mayo
Our Smallest Adventures - The Secret To Surviving Air Travel
Poor Things - Yes
Seas, Starry - Newark
Globules - Give A Little Love (Konx Am Pax Remix)
Turtle - Us


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Scottish Fiction Podcast - 27 November 2013

There have been so many bearded singer songwriters on the show this year, that it will become enshrined that all our live guests must have facial hair.  But when there's so many folk out there making great music, it's difficult to ignore.  The latest guest live on Scottish Fiction, was Owen McLaughlin, who goes by the name Gone Wishing.  He chatted about his music, influences, differences between band and solo work, and also picked the music for the first part of the show.  There's the chance to hear three live songs too, all from his forthcoming new EP 'The Fires Of Future Strangers'.  On the show as well, there's new music from Withered Hand, There Will Be Fireworks, Casual Sex, Turtle and much much more!


Withered Hand - Black Tambourine

The National - About Today - As chosen by Gone Wishing

Gone Wishing - Hands Weigh Heavy - Live in Pulse 98.4 studio

Gone Wishing - The Fires Of Future Strangers - Live in Pulse 98.4 studio

Ryan Adams - Do I Wait - As chosen by Gone Wishing

Gone Wishing - The Confidant - Live in Pulse 98.4 studio

The Van Pelt - The Young Alchemists - As chosen by Gone Wishing

Casual Sex - Nothing On Earth
Franz Ferdinand - Bullet
There Will Be Fireworks - Youngblood
Robbie Lesiuk - Fault Lines
DEATHCATS!!! - Surfing In My Head
Hagana - Fuzzy Punch
A Sudden Burst Of Colour - Let Go Or Be Dragged
Turtle - Who Knows
The Leg - Quantum Suicide
Randolph's Leap - Psychic
Daves Like These - Honey
King Post Kitsch - The Silver Screen


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