Articles by David McElroy

On 17 July, Star Wars, Wilco’s first album since 2011, appeared as a free download on their website. At only around 34 minutes long, it’s shorter than any of their recent albums, however it packs […]

Priest – Waiting For The End To Come Taken from the Orlando duo’s self titled debut album, Waiting For The End To Come shows Priest at their best. Taking their trademark synthpop (think Chvrches without […]

Having seemingly been in hiding for years, Richard D. James has become remarkably prolific with an album and 2 e.p’s within the last two 18 months under his Aphex Twin guise. Orphaned Deejay Selex 2006-08 […]

As regular readers probably know, I have a bit of a soft spot for Glasgow six piece The Insomniac Project. Combining disco, electronica and synthpop (think of LCD Soundsystem versus Giorgio Moroder), the band caused […]

Tongues are one of the bands I’ve featured on my ongoing New Bands 2015 series (right here) and they caught my ear because the superb Colours In The Dark and Anymore were two of the […]

Releasing a synthesizer led album which takes influence from the sounds and styles of the 80’s can be a tricky thing. A lot of this type of music ends up sounding like the crap end […]

Mystery is the debut e.p. by Edinburgh based singer/songwriter Gus Harrower who, despite only being the tender age of 16 years old, has produced an e.p. that displays fine songwriting abilities and an ear for […]

Having refined psychedelic rock for a new generation with his previous work culminating in 2012’s riff laden Lonerism , Kevin Parker a.k.a Tame Impala has taken something of a surprise step with Currents, producing a […]

Pesky are a seven piece from Cumbria made up of 10-12 year olds and they’ve just released their debut track Keep Me from their forthcoming ep Smells Like Tween Spirit which, I have to say, is really rather […]

Edinburgh’s Wozniak, whose superb Five Star featured on the first Almost Scottish Fiction ep, release their second ep, Auster the follow up to their superb debut e.p. Pikes Peak. Auster represents a leap forward for the band […]

5 June seen the release on Hotgem Tunes of the new e.p. from Machines In Heaven and, as with each of their previous releases, this e.p. is another leap forward for this increasingly impressive band. […]

Fiona Soe Paing featured as one of my New Bands of 2015 a while ago, a feature that was borne of my failure to pick up on her superb work earlier than this year. Rather […]

Jamie XX’s debut solo album follows the excellent Gil Scott Heron collaboration We’re Not Here which was one of 2011’s best albums. Like the first The XX album, it was innovative and a breath of […]

Tobin Prinz and Suzi Horn aka Prinzhorn Dance School return with their third album Home Economics, an album that boils down their sound to a sparse, at times primitive feel that, despite that, still manages to […]

As I’ve no doubt said before, Olive Grove Records is a label that keeps releasing outstanding music seemingly effortlessly. The label’s latest gem is Foreign Organ, the new album by Woodenbox which brings to mind […]

Michael Kasparis records under the name Apostille and this week released his debut album Powerless which is already one oF my favorite releases of the year. Its combination of old school sounding synths and pop melodies that recreate […]

Hot Chip return with a sixth album, recorded against a background of the band’s concerns about whether or not they remain relevant in today’s dance and electronic scenes. They really needn’t have worried however as […]

Before this gig, I’d never had the chance to see Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds live, so I was part over excited, part intrigued about the prospect of a Cave solo show. The show […]