August 2021

Watch the brilliant new video from Dean Owens for his new single “The Hopeless Ghosts” featuring members of Calexico, and Grant-Lee Phillips on harmony vocals. Also, don’t miss their live online show, available to watch now at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Tomorrow night marks the 100th online concert that Scottish singer songwriter Dougie MacLean will have performed since March 2020. The concert takes place within the Old School attached to his home and studio in the tiny village of Butterstone, Perthshire.

John Jenkins’ ‘If You Can’t Forgive, You Can’t Love’ is a summery hook-laden indie-pop free-flying balloon ride that makes you want to push the replay button and listen to the whole album all over again.

Barry Kerr, multi-instrumentalist, composer, singer and painter releases his new single Father’s Way today. Watch the accompanying video featuring Galway hurler Maidhc Ó Conghaile.

Monsieur Doumani, the much-acclaimed Cyprus-based trio, return with Pissourin, an enthralling and entertaining fourth album on which the intriguing traditional sounds of the Eastern Mediterranean merge with the contemporary.

One of the most intriguing albums to come out this year, the nine tracks of Wet and Unlucky leave us wanting far more from Tiger Saw and The Reasons Why. Who’d have ever thought that sadcore and country would merge so successfully?

“On Our Way”, the latest release from I See Hawks in L.A., is a spectacular offering that occupies a timeless space where ideas and influences jostle freely, unrestrained by fashion or fortune, contributing together a potent message for the moment.

Inspired by Andrew Wasylyk’s morning walks in a Dundee park, the music of “Balgay Hill: Morning in Magnolia” offers a deep sense of place, filling spaces of the mind and awakening the senses; it adds textures and tangency to discovering all the things you never notice during a busy day.

This autumn, Sam Carter will be touring his Home Waters album including a special online concert on 24th September, from which, as a special preview, you can watch Sam and the Home Waters String Quartet performing Hold Back the Storm.

In keeping with the theme of subconscious exploration, Karima Walker’s ‘Waking the Dreaming Body’ provides a beautifully hypnotic experience. Content in the duality of her music and not afraid to experiment, with this album, Walker has created her best work to date.

From its attention-grabbing opener, Dag Tenere’s “Iswat” is an entrancing EP. Despite the hypnotic raw guitars and steady rhythms coming to the fore, it also feels deeply layered and sophisticated. Short but excellent.

Broadside Hacks release new single and video, a re-imagining of ‘The Burning of Auchindoun’, featuring Dargah Lynch of Lankum and Edinburgh-based artist Rosa Zajac. Taken from “Songs Without Authors Vol.1”, to be released in September 2021.

Marisa Anderson & William Tyler deliver a diverse and shifting set of songs, using repetition, space, peace and alarm. Lost Futures is a finely composed and beautifully performed album from these two highly creative players.

Scotland’s accordion virtuoso Gary Innes releases a new single “The Hurling Man” to celebrate Ireland’s ancient and native sport Hurling featuring Don Stiffe, Sharon Shannon plus a whole host of other terrific musicians.