Features
AUK’s Chain Gang: Dàimh “The Rough Bounds”
The connection here is as much about the music as it is the places where they were made as it is (sort of) the Scotch whisky. The writer of last week’s AUK Chain Gang song, ‘Dram […]
Articles by Alasdair Fotheringham
Album Reviews
Misophone “And So Sinks the Sun on a Burning Sea”
No matter how (un) crowded the market for throwback lo-fi surreal ‘folk’ music, Misophone shine in a league of their own. If ‘And So Sinks The Sun on a Burning Sea’ were a film and not […]
A Night to Remember
A Night To Remember: Jason Molina & Ron Sexsmith, Granada, Spain, 23rd June 2007
Full confession: when I went to this concert, I had no idea who Jason Molina was and I was only interested in Ron Sexsmith because I’d been given one of his albums, played it once, liked […]
Album Reviews
Andrew Farriss “Andrew Farriss”
Clean-cut pop ditties laced with deftly produced, occasionally mawkish Americana. Memorably insipid. When the co-founder and primary songwriter of a band as famous as INXS makes an Americana album, it’s fairly predictable that even mainstream media […]
Album Reviews
Son of the Velvet Rat “Solitary Company”
Bleak but compelling desert tomb-stone Americana engraved with whimsical European folk-noir. OK, let’s get the ‘Is-that-really-what-they’re-called?’ reaction out of the way, given that a band name as strikingly odd as Son of the Velvet Rat feels […]