Scott Baxter

Ivan Moult “Longest Shadow” (Bubblewrap Records, 2018)

May 8, 2018 Scott Baxter 0

Throw a dart in the air of any hamlet, village, town or city in the UK and the chances are it’ll land on the head of an introverted and melancholic singer-songwriter with an acoustic guitar, a […]

Woods End “II” (Independent, 2018)

April 5, 2018 Scott Baxter 0

Brendan Behan said ‘critics are like eunuchs at a harem; the know how it’s done, they’ve seen it done every day, but they’re unable to do it themselves.’ While I’d stop short of referring to myself […]

The President Lincoln “Pilgrims and Aliens” (Nine Mile Records, 2018)

February 15, 2018 Scott Baxter 0

The Gaffer generally, and understandably, prefers reviews to not be written in first person. I suppose the prospect of being even partly responsible for unearthing another Everett True would actually be a burden too heavy for […]

Malachi Vale “Swan Song” (Maisonnette, 2017)

August 15, 2017 Scott Baxter 0

Machai Vale is the pseudonym of Marc Gagnon, a Montreal native whose previous recorded output was with alt-punk-country-swing (it says here) outfit, Pipo Fiasco. Having no idea what alt-punk-country-swing is, it was hard to know what […]

Pete Fij/Terry Bickers “We Are Millionaires” (Broadcast Recordings, 2017)

August 14, 2017 Scott Baxter 0

Second album from ex-Creation artists who flirted with success in the late 80s and early 90s with Adorable (Fij), House of Love and Levitation (Bickers) and who, through the education of life and its attendant struggles […]