Welcome to the Scotsman Sessions. With the performing arts sector still impacted by the pandemic, we are commissioning a series of short video performances from artists all around the country and releasing them on scotsman.com, with introductions from our critics. Here, from a living room in Leith, Gloria Black and Callum Govan – aka synth pop duo Maranta – perform their single My Man
Scottish new music round-up: May 2021
With A LOT coming out this month, we ve done our best to highlight some of the new stuff we re most excited about, including Carla J. Easton and Simon Liddell of Frightened Rabbit s glorious new project Poster Paints Feature by Tallah Brash | 05 May 2021
There are a few big hitters this month from scene veterans like Sharleen Spiteri s
Texas and Justin Currie’s
Del AmItri, while Idlewild frontman
Roddy Woomble returns with his latest solo record,
Lo! Soul. But there’s also a heck of a lot of other stuff coming out this month, as the return of live music begins to look like more of a possibility in the not-too-distant future.