MUSIC | Records – Singles SINGLES SINGLES
GOLDEN TEACHER Buddy Morrow and his Spooky Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Friends Night EP Music to Scare Your Neighbours (Optimo) ●●●●● (Fingertips) ●●●●● More self-proclaimed ‘hypno-psych A jazz reissue, based on writings of voodoo groove’ and ‘fourth world Edgar Allan Poe. Expect a 50s drive- feakouts’ (these guys should be thru movie feel and a beatnik-styled employed as reviewers) from the English lecturer telling tales along to Ultimate Thrush/Silk Cut analogue spooky, doo wop jazz melodies. A jazz synth and drum machine-toting reissue, based on writings of Edgar collaboration that brought you Allan Poe. Expect a 50s drive-thru the perversely slamming ‘Dante & movie feel and a beatnik-styled English Pilgrim’. Lead track ‘Like a Hawk’ is a lecturer telling tales along to spooky, Leftfield’s Leftism-esque Afro-electro doo wop jazz melodies. A jazz reissue, jam by way of Dinosaur L, powered based on writings of Edgar Allan Poe. onward to a strange, hypnotic, Expect a 50s drive-thru movie feel phantasmagorical place by the thrill and a beatnik-styled English lecturer of feeling like it might all fall apart at telling tales along to spooky, doo wop any moment. jazz melodies. A jazz reissue, based Listen to 'Like A Hawk' at on writings of Edgar Allan Poe. Expect soundcloud.com/optimo-music. a 50s drive-thru movie feel and a See optimomusic.com for the beatnik-styled English lecturer telling official release date. tales along to spooky, doo wop jazz AR DROOPS Buddy Morrow and his Spooky Breakfast Bar Friends (Self-release, Music to Scare Your Neighbours soundcloud.com/ardoops/ breakfast-bar-mixtape-coming) ●●●●● (Fingertips) ●●●●● A jazz reissue, based on writings of A speccy Glaswegian guy out of an Edgar Allan Poe. Expect a 50s drive- electro band (Conquering Animal thru movie feel and a beatnik-styled Sound) doing comedy hip hop on the English lecturer telling tales along to side may inspire homicidal thoughts spooky, doo wop jazz melodies. A jazz in some, but that says more about reissue, based on writings of Edgar them than it does Ar Droops.The Allan Poe. Expect a 50s drive-thru first taste of Droop Diddy’s (Droop movie feel and a beatnik-styled English Dogg’s?) forthcoming debut mixtape lecturer telling tales along to spooky, is evidence of a flow as smooth as a doo wop jazz melodies. A jazz reissue, busted toilet flush. But you’ve got to based on writings of Edgar Allan Poe. love a rapper who pre-empts his own Expect a 50s drive-thru movie feel celebrity with an accompanying MTV and a beatnik-styled English lecturer Cribs-style YouTube video showing telling tales along to spooky, doo wop us round his Shawlands gaff, replete jazz melodies. A jazz reissue, based with, yes, busted toilet flush. on writings of Edgar Allan Poe. Expect 'Breakfast Bar' is taken from the a 50s drive-thru movie feel and a forthcoming mixtape PC WORLD beatnik-styled English lecturer telling MUSIC. tales along to spooky, doo wop jazz
NAKED Buddy Morrow and his Spooky Lie Follows Lie Friends (Song, by Toad) ●●●●● Music to Scare Your Neighbours Naked? But we’ve only just met. (Fingertips) ●●●●● Brand new on the Edinburgh scene A jazz reissue, based on writings of and featuring members of St Jude’s Edgar Allan Poe. Expect a 50s drive- Infirmary, Magic Eye and Edinburgh thru movie feel and a beatnik-styled School for the Deaf, this arty indie English lecturer telling tales along to trio’s debut single is all chiming spooky, doo wop jazz melodies. A jazz guitars, minimal down-tempo reissue, based on writings of Edgar electronic beats and Liz Fraser-style Allan Poe. Expect a 50s drive-thru ethereal gobbledygook vocals. It's movie feel and a beatnik-styled English somehow all held together with a lecturer telling tales along to spooky, lingering air of lustful tension: think doo wop jazz melodies. A jazz reissue, The xx on Viagra. Vocalist Agnes based on writings of Edgar Allan Poe. Gryczkowska’s intriguing relationship Expect a 50s drive-thru movie feel with pitch does becomes somewhat and a beatnik-styled English lecturer fractious as the song progresses, but telling tales along to spooky, doo wop this is an otherwise very auspicious jazz melodies. A jazz reissue, based arrival which is set to slowly quicken on writings of Edgar Allan Poe. Expect pulses. a 50s drive-thru movie feel and a For more info go to naked-naked- beatnik-styled English lecturer telling naked.com tales along to spooky, doo wop jazz STEFAN BLOMEIER Buddy Morrow and his Spooky Unexpected Journey Friends (Lux) ●●●●● Music to Scare Your Neighbours There are few sounds in music more (Fingertips) ●●●●● apt to inspire a frisson of Proustian A jazz reissue, based on writings of satisfaction than the cosmic, fickle Edgar Allan Poe. Expect a 50s drive- squelch and squawk of an analogue thru movie feel and a beatnik-styled synthesiser weighted down by a English lecturer telling tales along to good, fat four-to-the-floor kick drum. spooky, doo wop jazz melodies. A jazz And there’s plenty of both – indeed, reissue, based on writings of Edgar little else – across this EP of retro but Allan Poe. Expect a 50s drive-thru definitely not nostalgic acid house movie feel and a beatnik-styled English from Scotland-based Dane Blomeier, lecturer telling tales along to spooky, released via Zurich-housed electronic doo wop jazz melodies. A jazz reissue, label Lux. As the title suggests, based on writings of Edgar Allan Poe. there’s an impromptu, exploratory Expect a 50s drive-thru movie feel feel to these freakily freeform, dawn- and a beatnik-styled English lecturer splits-the-curtains grooves. This is telling tales along to spooky, doo wop music for the after-party’s after-party. jazz melodies. A jazz reissue, based See stefanblomeier.com for more on writings of Edgar Allan Poe. Expect info. a 50s drive-thru movie feel and a (All singles and EPs reviewed by beatnik-styled English lecturer telling Malcolm Jack) tales along to spooky, doo wop jazz
EXPOSURE EXPOSURE LOMOND CAMPBELL
You may know Ziggy Campbell from the Edinburgh-based collective FOUND. Now, under the moniker Lomond Campbell, he’s releasing his debut EP Only a City Apart. Here, Campbell talks about building whisky tasting machines and merging Glasgow with Edinburgh How did Lomond Campbell come about?
'King Creosote took a photo of me in front of the Lomond hills and decided to rename me Lomond Campbell. I used that pseudonym to support him on a couple of shows and found getting into character helped me get over the anxiety of performing. Lomond Campbell is everything I’m not: sophisticated, articulate, pleasant when drunk and possibly the owner of a small Hebridean island.'
Tell us about the recording process . . .
'I recorded the EP while I was building a whisky tasting machine so progress was a bit staggered. The Pictish Trail paid me a visit and I cajoled him into recording vocals for ‘Yesterday’s You & Me’. We were both grotesquely hungover and I made him sing in as high a register as he could. It sounded great but the look of anguish on his face between takes is something that will haunt me forever. It’s always satisfying to finish a record but I’m particularly pleased with this one. You can’t go wrong with an unflattering close-up picture of your own heavily bearded face on the sleeve, right?'
What does the rest of the year hold?
'This summer I’ll be recording a collaborative album with River of Slime which will come out on Chemikal Underground. We’ve been playing a few shows together and experimenting with electronic instruments from various eras. It’s quite unpredictable equipment and sometimes the sound takes on a life of its own. I don’t know if these are the best bits or the worst.' And lastly, a toughie! With the name of the EP in mind, which is the better city: Glasgow or Edinburgh?
'Ach, how can you do that to me? Edinburgh and Glasgow should just amalgamate into one megacity called Glasburgh. It would mean we’d lose Falkirk of course, but I think ultimately it would be worth it.' (Nina Glencross) ■ Neu! Reekie!, The Poetry Club, Glasgow, Fri 19 Jul; Henry’s Cellar Bar, Edinburgh, Sat 3 Aug; City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Thu 15 Aug. See page 84 for our review of ‘Only a City Apart’. Free 12” EPs will be given away at a secret house gig in Edinburgh on Sat 20 Jul. To reserve a space email 42music42@ musician.org Also available from Chemikal Underground and Fence online shops or to download from lomondcampbell.bandcamp.com
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