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Glenn Donaldson and Jem Fanvu's divine duo are back
Back in the mists of lockdown time, Vacant Gardens emerged like heartworn souls… Vacant Gardens is an interstellar recording project that combines celestial, shimmering guitar courtesy of Reds Pinks and...
SOPHIE - Nothing More To Say
Repress of SOPHIE‘s mercurial Debut on original label, Glasgow’s Huntleys & Palmers. Photo was taken by the label’s Andrew Thompson at the Huntleys & Palmers finale event in 2017. While...
Hungry Beat: The Scottish Pop Underground Movement
The immense cultural contribution made by two maverick Scottish independent music labels, Fast Product and Postcard, cannot be underestimated. Bob Last and Hilary Morrison in Edinburgh, followed by Alan Horne...
Belle & Sebastian have A Bit Of Previous
Belle And Sebastian‘s tenth studio album, we’ve been looking forward to this one. As far as friends of Monorail go, it doesn’t get closer or more dear than this. A...
Duncan Marquiss's Wires Turned Sidways In Time is a Caledonian Cosmische Masterpiece
Comes with ‘Suspended Labyrinth’, 2021 Duncan Marquiss, inkjet print on archival paper, edition of 100 (reproduction of original drawing, pencil on paper). The Phantom Band guitarist, Duncan Marquiss‘s instrumental solo...
Massage: Jangle heaven is a place on earth
This is special stuff. Massage is the group headed by ex-Pains Of Being Pure At Heart-er Alex Naidus and Andrew Romano who together weave webs of glinting jangle and big...
Hectorine: Hectorine's gently psychedelic, bucolic songs are a wonder to behold.
Sublime. A couple of years ago the San Francisco and Oakland indie scenes opened up like two blooming flowers in the sunshine when we fell for a group called Cindy....
Vashti Bunyan's Wayward, Diamond Day
The line between autobiography and self-mythologising blur on Vashti Bunyan’s legendary debut, Just Another Diamond Day. It’s a mythology that is unravelled in her eagerly anticipated autobiography, Wayward: Just Another...
The Spirit Of Place: Folklore Tapes' forgotten histories
FTX-Mixwhole This is truly special. We’re really excited to team up with one of our favourite labels, Folklore Tapes, run by David Chatton Barker. Folklore Tapes has been responsible for...