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Scottish new music round-up: January 2021
As a reward for surviving 2020, treat your ears to some new music courtesy of Bunkhouse, James Yorkston, Berlin Anatomy, Alex Amor, Comfort and Josephine Sillars Feature by Tallah Brash | 07 Jan 2021
I can’t believe I’m writing this, but it’s 2021 (insert celebratory emoji here)! We only bloody well made it through 2020 – phew! – and the extra good news is, there’s lots of lovely new Scottish music coming your way this month to help get you through what could otherwise be one of the bleakest months in the calendar.
Starting in Glasgow, three-piece act
Bunkhouse, who were brought together in late 2019 by “a desire to push pop into strange places”, are doing exactly that on their self-released, self-titled debut (29 Jan), where fuzzy garage-rock collides with joyful organs, Casio drum beats and droll lyricism. Weird lyrics like ‘Cheeky little, cheeky little, cheeky little breadcrumb’ and ‘Hello whinge
Gallus - Eye to Eye A searing razor-sharp riot of quirky post-punk mastery from the Glasgow quartet, who take their name from the pub at which they met. They say the lyrics are about how polarised society was becoming in the run-up to the General Election, but then as we got closer to lockdown we saw how the pandemic was polarising people even further . ...
Letters From Mouse- Dunkin A wilfully wobbly and floaty machine-pop with light beats that drifts into the subconscious from the underground electronic music producer from near Edinburgh. LFM also presents The Magic Window on madwaspradio.com, apparently.