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best album
- Aereogramme - Seclusion (Undergroove)
more of a mini-album with their usual mix of searing rawk and
cinematic scapery with appropriately, a film complete with soundtrack
on the CD
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 The Aphrodisiacs - This is a Campaign (SL)
following umpteen demos, Lanarkshire's finest 80's influenced
3-piece make their broody pop debut
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 Ballboy - The Royal Theatre (SL)
A new lineup and a triumphant return mixing witty lyrics and
big masterpieces
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 Calamateur - The Old Fox of '45 (Autoclave)
stark and stunning, 10 ice-cool numbers from a one-man-band with
an epic sound.
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 The
Delgados - Universal
Audio (Chemikal Underground)
back-to-basics album as the Glasgow foursome ditch the strings
and get back to Domestiques (almost)
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 Dogs Die in Hot Cars - Please Describe Yourself (V2)
perfect pop debut from Fife's latest export
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 Franz
Ferdinand - (Domino)
little that's not been said already about the biggest thing since,
um, Travis.
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 Fuck-off
Machete - My First
Machete (Lost Dog)
stylishly moody collection of pop rock
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 Half Cousin - The Function Room (Gronland)
oddly, on Neu!'s label, the low-tech sounds of Orkney
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 International Airport - Reunion of Island Goose (Domino)
fabulously complex collection of underground pop nuggets
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 Le
Reno Amps (Vanity
Project)
Remarkable mix of acoustic punk rock chucking in influences from
the world over.
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 Laeto - Zwoa (2MF)
long-awaited follow-up to their last-century debut this is a
collection of metal-tinged epics.
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 The
Magnificents - This
is The Magnificents (KFM)
fantastic art-electro barrage of throbbing tunes and squalls
of noise.
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 My Legendary Girlfriend - Wrong End of The Telescope (Press
Hat & Cigar)
best release yet from top underground Scottish indiepop act
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 Sons
and Daughters - Love
The Cup (Domino)
next big thing with swaggering country-tinged mini-album re-release
snapped up by Franz's label
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 Spare
Snare - Learn To
Play (Chute)
True veterans of the Scottish indie scene, who get more and more
'hi-fi' with every release.
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 Squander
Pilots - Things Happen
To Us ()
long-awaited set of broodingly danceable electronic torch ballads
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 Trashcan Sinatras - Weightlifting (Picnic)
first album in years from the godfathers of jangly Scottish indiepop
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 theonewhoflew - Corporate Love Song ()
second self-released collection of bittersweet acoustic pop gems
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 The Sky at Night - Hope For Dummies ()
debut sparse set of chillingly orchestrated alternative melodies
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