Artist: gargleblastrecords

Gargleblast Records Back at Christmas time those nice folk over at Gargleblast Records got right into the festive spirit by giving away a series of freebies, now they've decided to do it all again under the guise of Springfest. So far they've posted up three free downloads, ' There's a Phantom Hiding in My Loft ' by Martin John Henry, ' Black Albino ' by Desert Hearts and ' It Helps to See You Hurt ' (live) by De Rosa. <p><p&a mp;gt;&amp ;lt;a href=" http://gargleblastrecords.band camp.com/track/theres-a-phanto m-hiding-in-my-loft"&a mp;amp;amp;amp;gt;There's a Phantom Hiding in My Loft by Martin John Henry& lt;/a& gt;</p& amp;gt;</p> [...]

Pensioner Our very own Pensioner are very kindly offering fans the chance to snap up their cracking debut album Yearlings for free on their Bandcamp page. Be quick mind as this offer is only going to be available for a few more days. Aerials Up Those lovely Aerials Up kids are giving away a free download of arguably their best song, All Your Mothers Daughters here . IndianRedLopez As a Christmas gift to us all, Aberdeenshire's finest, IndianRedLopez have posted up their cover [...]

• The Very Most - Scotland

Id like to apologise in advance for the rushed nature of this weeks Freebies, too many Christmas nights out mean that I haven't had the chance to listen to everything this week. Still though there are some wee corkers in there, you'll just have to find them for yourself. Gargleblast Records In the spirit of all things Christmassy, Gargleblast Records have their very own advent calendar of free tunes to give away every day. So far they've posted up free tunes from the likes of De Rosa, to find out what todays freebie is [...]

Artist: Martin John Henry Album: The Other Half of Everything Place of origin: Bellshill - Lanarkshire, Scotland Label: Gargleblast Records Links: Facebook | MySpace Buy: Bandcamp

Let's get it out of the way right now, as the founding member of De Rosa Martin John Henry is at least partly responsible for two of my favourite albums, Scottish or otherwise, of the last ten years. You can make it three albums if you count the De Rosa Appendices. With that in mind it would be quite a surprise if I didn't like The Other Half of Everything, Martin's debut solo album. There's no surprises ahead then, I do like the album. Rather a lot in fact. Yeah, ok, let's throw measured critical analysis out [...]

• gargleblastrecords - Ribbon on a Bough
• gargleblastrecords - There's a Phantom Hiding in My Loft

Let's get it out of the way right now, as the founding member of De Rosa Martin John Henry is at least partly responsible for two of my favourite albums, Scottish or otherwise, of the last ten years. You can make it three albums if you count the De Rosa Appendices. With that in mind it would be quite a surprise if I didn't like The Other Half of Everything, Martin's debut solo album. There's no surprises ahead then, I do like the album. Rather a lot in fact. Yeah, ok, let's throw measured critical analysis out [...]

• gargleblastrecords - Ribbon on a Bough
• gargleblastrecords - There's a Phantom Hiding in My Loft