ONR (feat Sarah Barthel of Phantogram) - Must Stop A Killers-style R Rated epic with one of the most barbed pop lyric of the year in “must stop falling in love with every girl/boy who f cks me” . ONR is the psuedonym of the man behind some of Scotland s best tunesmiths and former frontman with the underrated Dumfriesshire combo Finding Albert. ...
Tommy Ashby - Blood Wolf Moon Borders-based singer-songwriter Tommy Ashby who has a PhD in psychoacoustics notched up more than 2m streams of this gorgeous and reflective indie-folk song. ..
Callum Beattie - Some Heroes Don t Wear Capes The Edinburgh-raised singer-songwriter says it is the most personal song he has written and is around how his dad, who was the first to introduce him to songwriting, brought him up on his own. It has since been reworked as a tribute to key workers during the Covid pandemic. That new take features in the latest NHS Professionals video for International Nurses Day.
McRoy - No Fronts Paisley s fastest rapper in Scotland spits out the R Rated rhymes while a cutting grime vs rock churn loop ala Death Grips gets under your skin. ...
Casual Drag - Johnny The Edinburgh garage-rock trio s third single is a ferociously fascinating fuzzbomb of a post-punk rant which Idles would be proud ..
Colin MacLeod ft Sheryl Crow - Old Soul The Lewis crofter, previously highlighted on this annual list, teams up with the nine-time Grammy award winner who has championed him in this bewitching slice of Americana about feeling you have been born in the wrong time. From a new album Hold FAst due out on January 29.
Scottish new music round-up: December 2020
We discover new releases from Lost Map Records, Paradise Palms Records, Belle & Sebastian and more, and take a look at what you might have missed in November Feature by Tallah Brash | 10 Dec 2020
While 2020 has been a massive steaming pile of shit, a lot of good has still come out of the last nine months since life was turned upside down by the coronavirus, and although the arts have been hit particularly badly by the pandemic, musicians across Scotland have, against all odds, continued to harness their creativity, and this month is no different.
As well as the arts being hit hard, so has the hospitality industry, but Edinburgh s