Scorpio Leisure – Audio Pleasure – Album review

The witching hour edges ever closer. The album launch gig (or should I say release gig – especially for Coco) for this majestic brooding masterpiece in Edinburgh’s Voodoo Rooms on 19th July looms large. I for one am expecting nothing less than a spectacular show from this singularity unconventional quartet who are currently one of Scotland’s most exciting music exports. To coin a phrase oft made by the bands manager “you should go”! 

Audio Pleasure is a uniquely bewitching album from a band like no other, each member brings something different to the mix from their varied backgrounds in several Scottish bands from across the decades.… Read the rest

GIFTSHOP – A Bunch of Singles – album review

It is fitting for my favourite Queens, NYC band with such a strong back catalogue of exquisitely infectious singles to finally release an album celebrating that fact. But Bunch of Singles isn’t just an opportunity for Giftshop to pull all their singles together into one place. As the first song on the album states it is More Than That, taking the compelling urgency demonstrated on their singles of the last few years and mixing in a handful of new songs packed with a crunching commotion and occasionally a hint of tender emotion, both of which are demonstrated on their cover of Radiohead’s anthem for the dispossessed and weirdos worldwide.… Read the rest