The Last Battle It's been quite a year for the Edinburgh folk act. Having garnered a bit of a buzz about them at the start of the year, they went on to sign to Scottish blogger 17 Seconds label and released one of the most critically acclaimed albums to have come out of this wee nation in 2010. To round the year off the band are setting off an a tour of the country (weather permitting/sadly they couldn't make it through to Glasgow). To celebrate their adventures the band have very kindly posted up their new single [...]
Last month we posted a couple of excellent tracks by The Vitamin Sees , now Stuart from the band has been in touch with this offering from another band he is involved in called Viva Stereo . Knee High Boots comes from the bands fourth long player, Roar Lion Roar and while it doesn't quite have the recurring visceral impact of The Vitamin Sees it still packs a mighty punch all of its own. Walls of guitar and heavyweight percussion leave aural bruises that will take some time to [...]
It's been a pretty amazing year for music around the UK, and following on from my top 10 of 2007 , here is my top 10 of 2008. 10 - Viva Stereo - Roar Lion Roar You've probably not heard much about this Scottish collective. However, their third album was a surprise favourite for me - anthemic, accessible, slightly My Bloody Valentine and yet still so gorgeous. Read more about Viva Stereo here . Favourite: Knee High Boots . [...]
Hmm.. Viva Stereo, how to describe...? Well if you take the standard Fence Collective template then this lot pretty much do not fit in at all. Fence have been expanding their boundaries a lot recently, but these lads have been in from pretty early on, as far as I know, and they do [...]
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