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PAOLO NUTINI Scream (Funk My Life Up) (Atlantic) ●●●●● MACHINEDRUM Fenris District EP (Ninja Tune) ●●●●●
GOLDEN TEACHER Party People/Love (Optimo Music) ●●●●● PAWS Tongues (FatCat) ●●●●●
For the first ten seconds, the comeback single from Paisley’s favourite son is highly promising, with a vaguely South Asian convergence of atmospheric windchime sounds and squealing rap intro effects. But that’s the best bit – we’re soon into the territory of Give Out But Don’t Give Up-era Primal Scream B-sides, in which Paolo chugs out a game of rawk bingo (‘shotgun’, ‘hallelujah’, ‘gasoline’ rhymed with ‘smokin’ ma green’. . . house!) over a horn- encumbered slice of pub gospel. ■ Playing King Tut’s, Glasgow, Fri 28 Mar; Barrowlands, Glasgow, Sat 29 Mar. See list.co.uk for an interview and album review, and read a Q&A in the next issue of The List. Revisiting the imagined sonic landscape of his excellent concept LP Vapor City, American producer Travis Stewart here welcomes us to the seedy underbelly of the city, the red light area known as Fenris District. It’s well evoked by the lead track ‘Back Seat Ho’, an insistent slice of rap beats and soaring, futurist D’n’B timings. There’s also a crunching remix of the same track by Rustie, the expansive arcade machine shuffle of ‘On My Mind’, ‘Neujack’s almost too persistent vocal cut-up and a dark dub remix of ‘Eyesdontlie’. ■ machinedrum.net
Swoons all round for Glasgow’s no-wave afro-disco shamans Golden Teacher, whose ability to do no wrong finds itself resolutely untested amid this latest release on their perfect partner for life Optimo Music. First up is ‘Party People’, whose squelchy, hi-hat rattling debt to P-Funk is firmly stated when the reverb-soaked, Liquid Liquid-indebted vocal hollers ‘P-Funk!’. It’s not just that they’re good, but that they veer through styles with boundless confidence: ‘Love’ is a grinding electro rhythm that winds its way back through early-90s Berlin and Snake Plissken’s New York to meet Kraftwerk in their youth. ■ Playing Late Night Counterflows with Heatsick and Joe McPhee at the Art School, Glasgow, Sat 5 Apr.
A taster for their forthcoming second album Youth Culture Forever (pictured above, and due for release on Mon 2 Jun), Glasgow power trio PAWS (now featuring sometime writer of this parish Ryan Drever, following the departure of Matthew Scott) are back with a winning slice of Sonic Youth-style guitar chime, drum clatter and vocals that sound like they were recorded in the keg room under the bar of your local boozer. This is a good thing, believe it or not. It’s understated but air-punchingly lovely. ■ wehavepaws.com; watch a video for Tongues at vimeo.com/87423155 (Singles reviewed by David Pollock)
MUSIC FAMILY TREES SCOTLAND’S INDIE-POP SCENE
Mapping out the local music scene in Scotland, one sub-genre at a time, we continue our series of Family Trees with the twee-pop, C86 and melodic rock acts on the go just now. Spot any missing members, or just formed a new band with one of them? Go to list.co.uk to add your comments. Words: Malcolm Jack
S TA R T H E R E
BELLE & SEBASTIAN
RICHARD COLBURN
BOB KILDEA
FORMER MEMBER CAMERA OBSCURA
BMX BANDITS
TRACYANNE CAMPBELL
LEE THOMSON
SARAH MARTIN
STUART MURDOCH
CHRIS GEDDES
STEVIE JACKSON
C O
L L
A B.
COLLAB.
DUGLAS T STEWART
F O
R
M E
R
M
DAN WILLSON
E M
B E
R
THE VASELINES
FRANCES MCKEE
EUGENE KELLY
THE PASTELS
STEPHEN
MCROBBIE & KATRINA
MITCHELL
NORMAN BLAKE
GERARD LOVE
R E C O R D L A B E L B O S S E S
WITHERED HAND
L A B O R A T O R C O L
MALCOLM BENZIE
ALUN THOMAS
FRASER HUGHES
TEENAGE FANCLUB
RAYMOND MCGINLEY
PATRICK DOYLE
E S
G A
GAVIN DUNBAR
N A
M
NIGEL BAILLIE
CAREY LANDER
FRANCIS MACDONALD
KENNY MCKEEVE
VERONICA FALLS (LONDON BASED, BUT SOME MEMBERS FROM GLASGOW)
ROXANNE CLIFFORD
MARION HERBAIN
. B A L L O C
JAMES HOARE
CORRECTO
PAUL THOMPSON
FRANZ FERDINAND
RICHARD WRIGHT
DANNY SAUNDERS
ALEX KAPRANOS
NICK MCCARTHY
BOB HARDY
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