Album of The Week
TALISK are among the most in-demand folk-based groups to emerge from Scotland in the last decade or more. The chart-toppers have toured the world, stacking up major awards for their explosively energetic, ground-breaking and enthralling music. Three hugely accomplished musicians, three craftsmen with a bold and captivating approach to album and live music – […]
Contemporary traditional Scottish/Irish trio APE HOUSE fill their self-titled album with a lively, energetic and expressive sound. Lachie Robinson (guitar/vocals), Wallace Calvert (concertina/cello) and Craig Harrison (fiddle/bodhràn) came together through Trad sessions in Glasgow, where they all studied as students. No longer all living in the same city, and away from the relative freedom […]
With her second album, Perth singer-songwriter BETH MALCOLM delivers an intriguing musical coming-of-age story. Initially commissioned by Celtic Connections and developed in association with Perth Theatre And Concert Hall into a stunning, three-act multimedia performance, FOLKMOSIS embraces traditional and new songs, film and the spoken word. It’s a story that bends and twists against […]
For his second album, Glasgow-based Lewis McLaughlin is venturing into uncharted sonic territories, crafting a daring and audacious soundscape that remains true to his narrative-driven songwriting style. Working again with long term collaborator Andy Monaghan(Frightened Rabbit), ‘A Hope In Fear’ delves deeper into themes of self-discovery and resilience. The band, featuring Lewis and Euan […]
The Fretless are captivatingly vulnerable, introspective and transformative on this, their sixth full-length studio release – and they are “immensely proud” of it. The four-piece, award-winning band – Trent Freeman (fiddle/viola); Karrnnel Sawitsky (fiddle/viola), Ben Plotnick(fiddle/viola), and Eric Wright (cello) – wanted the album to be experimental in nature and it successfully captures magical […]
Mairearad Green and Rachel Newton are both well established and celebrated Scottish musicians – they are also cousins. This the first piece of music they have made as a duo, despite having played music together both informally and professionally over the years as part of various groups and projects. They have come together to […]
Esteemed Scottish traditional and Gaelic singer and multi-instrumentalist Ewen Henderson is set to release his thought-provoking new album Lèirsinn – Perception this month (October 18). It features pairs of compositions based on real locations, from two different perspectives: the imagined and the experienced. Half of the album was recorded at his home studio with […]
For their tantalising debut album, Auld Springs New, Morag Brown and Lewis Powell-Reid have distilled the music they’ve been brewing for over a decade. The duo play a rich rand rewarding repertoire of acoustic instrumental music from Scottish traditions along with many others and this shared intuition and love of spontaneity allows them to freely move between melody, […]
Indie, folk-rock, and psych-pop band TRUE GENTS boldly and imaginatively weave together swirling melodies, driving rhythms and the essence of the Scottish wilderness in their music. It’s an inventive approach that’s won them many admirers since they were formed by school friends Euan Nicol and Toby Jeffery in 2006. There’s a haunting highland atmosphere […]
Simon Kempston is ‘one of Scotland’s very best songwriters’ (The Sunday Herald), a composer and leading finger style guitarist based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His new album, My Dreams Are Theirs is our Album of the Week. My Dreams Are Theirs is an exquisite reflection of one person’s creative talents, of which there seems no boundaries. […]
