Artist: Black Country, New Road Album: For The First Time Label: Ninja Tune Back in 2020 when festivals (remember them), were still a thing, I travelled down to a distinctly chilly Bognor Regis in January to attend the wonderful Rockaway Beach. Headlined by John Cale, The Jesus & Mary Chain and Fontaines D.C. it was […]
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It’s been a pretty hectic 2020 for Glasgow born singer songwriter Kerri Watt with lots of online gigs, recordings and releases but it was also supposed to be the year her debut album Neptune’s Daughter was released. However, due to the impact of Coronavirus it was put back a few months but it’s now been
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Into Music continue to squirrel away in the background, listening to an array of artists, from the established to the underground in our quest to bring you some top tunes. Speaking of which, the following have made an impression… Artist: The Pierce Kingans Album: Pierce and Love Label: Subjangle Subjangle Records have delivered some lesser known acts
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Artist: Taz And The Maniacs Album: Peace And Love Falkirk appears to be a hot bed of musical talent at the moment with the likes of Vulture Party releasing their debut album, the long overdue return of Arab Strap and now up and coming rockers Taz And The Maniacs who have just released their first
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Artist: Andrew Adkins Album: The Echoist Label: Elephant Seed Records Across the Cumberland River from Music City, East Nashville has become a haven for artists and songwriters like Andrew Adkins. After a decade as co-founder of bluesy power trio Mellow Down Easy and a spell with short lived rockers Lions for Real, Adkins decided to strike
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Artist: Blake Album: HMS Blake Label: Subjangle The South African record label Subjangle certainly seem to have their finger on the pulse, releasing an excellent and eclectic range of music in 2020 from the likes of The Crystal Furs and Alpine Subs. They’ve recently added Blake (the artist Julian Pugsley) to their roster and having given
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Artist: Emma Swift Album: Blonde On The Tracks Label: Tiny Ghost Records The stars were aligned when Emma Swift’s Bob Dylan covers project neared fruition. The project was begun shortly after Dylan had released his own covers album, Triplicate – yet another batch of Great American Songs, which even the most zealous of his aficionados
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Artist: Andrew Wasylyk LP: Fugitive Light And Themes Of Consolation Label: Angel Of The North Having cut his teeth in the indie/folk/rock band The Hazey Janes, Andrew Mitchell, under the alias Andrew Wasylyk has been extremely busy in 2020, releasing an EP with the Scottish poet and playwright Liz Lochhead which Into Creative reviewed here. Following
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Artist: The Roly Mo EP: TRM Label: 7 West Music Gallus: A sense or arrogance and style, swagger, braggish attitude and (mis)behaviour. Only a few can lay claim to being gallus but to that list you can add The Roly Mo on the evidence of their debut EP TRM. Containing 6 songs where the band’s confidence
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Artist: Liz Lochhead & Andrew Wasylyk EP: Still Life, Sweetheart Label: Blackford Hill Battling through the inclement Scottish weather and following a series of ferry cancellations, Liz Lochhead and Andrew Wasylyk descended upon An Tobar, Tobermory’s creative and cultural epicentre early in 2020. Ensconced in the studio along with producer Gordon MacLean they embarked on a
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