There isn’t enough sheer unabashed indignation in rock music these days. Oh wait, Cuddly Shark have a new album? Sorry, I take it back. Glaswegian trio Cuddly Shark are another braw addition to the Armellodie roster, first appearing in 2009 with their pleasingly pissed self-titled debut which offered all the hooks and none of the bait. So wahey, they’re finally set to unleash a new LP by the name of ‘The Road To Ugly’ and our first taster of this is “Body Mass Index” which has a hook [...]
Manchester again? Yes, Manchester again. Why Manchester again? Well I happen to be on the way down to London again for MORE MEETINGS! You know what the Cookie Monster is to cookies? Well I seem to be that to London meetings. Anyone would think I actually enjoyed trying to get work done on shitty East Coast Mainline WiFi, which is up and down like a whore's knickers (I got this expression from Mrs. Toad - don't blame me). Anyhow, on the way back I thought I would stop off in Manchester and visit my Granddad who [...]
Och aye, Armellodie Records are a braw wee label from Glasgow and like the Wu Tang Clan before them, they aint nuthin’ ta fuck with. They’ve released records from the likes of The Scottish Enlightenment, The Douglas Firs, Something Beginning With L, Le Reno Amps and more. They’re shockingly good people, they’re “ in it for the right reasons ” (blah blah) and they might just be your new favourite label. Armellodie founder, Al Nero, generously made time to take us through his Favourite Five... [...]
So, a single post after berating the bloggers of Scotland for getting stale and just writing about the same old cack all the time, I find myself posting about a band who would probably very happily throw that exact same accusation at me. And not, I must confess, entirely without justification. It's not like I don't know about Trapped Mice; they've been in touch before and Brian, the guitarist, is someone I count as a friend, and has indeed made many an appearance on the Song, by Toad Fresh Air Radio show. He's been in and out of [...]
So, erm... as the cultural black hole of the Edinburgh Festival lumbers towards us like a hungry giant, blithely trampling all before it as it stumbles clumsily towards the Magners tent to gorge itself on what can surely be chemically proven to be one of the world's nastiest ciders, I find myself wondering what the fine people of Edinburgh can do in the face of such a knee-trembling onslaught of shock and awful. Plenty, it turns out is the answer. So, after tearing my hair out waiting for the fucking Mixcloud uploader to start working again so I [...]
Continuing one with my theme of trying to introduce you all to something that isn't Scottish, here's a little piece about a talented fella by the name of Conor Mason all the way from Northern Ireland. Having just released his new album on one of my favourite labels, Armellodie Records, I caught up Conor to ask him a bit more about the album, how he ended up on a Scottish label and whether he recalled having to put with a very drunken Peenko at last years goNorth.... Hello Mr Mason, my name's Lloyd. I have very [...]
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 [...]
It's easy to say, isn't it, but oh so very hard to do: whatever else you do in the music business, never get into the habit of resenting other people's success. I had an absolutely awful temper as a kid. I don't think anyone I currently know has ever really seen me lose it, because it doesn't really happen these days. But I went through a couple of years of getting into fights, shouting at referees, smashing up things in frustration, and just generally giving too much vent to my feelings. Eventually I got myself sent [...]
Since 2009’s Tear It Open Le Reno Amps have clearly seen no need to tinker with their sound in anyway, instead channelling any urges for change into founding Armellodie Records and setting about making waves in the independent label scene. As is only fair when you have such a resource at your fingertips this new record is then in a sense self-released. Le Reno Amps - Appetite Much like it’s predecessor then the musical stylings are generally [...]
"I should warn you there's a wee set of titties on the cover, try and contain your excitement (is that a yacht in your pocket!?)" - Al, Le Reno Amps In terms of trying to sell a record to me, Al from Armellodie certainly knows how to grab my attention. Yes, the album has titties on the cover and yes that did excite me, but once I got over all the excitement of the album cover I was pleasantly surprised by this hidden gem of a n album. On what is their third long player, the boys from [...]
Having stowed out Bar Bloc last month for the first ever Barmellodie gig, the awesome Al from Armellodie Records returns to the scene of the crime tonight to do it all again. This time round he's roped in two of my favourite bands on his label, The Scottish Enlightenment and 30lbs of bone, plus a wee band called Randolph's Leap who you might have heard of. It all kicks off about 10-ish, with Al and my partner in crime, Halina from Glasgow Podcart spinning tunes right through until the wee hours of the morning. Not only do you [...]
Next Friday is a going to be a busy wee evening in Glasgow for gigs, at Stereo my good mate Jim has gone solo and is putting on his first ever 'Ayetunes Presents' gig with Boygirlanimalcolour, Kochka and Trapped Mice. Tickets are only £3 in advance and £5 on the door. After that's all finished it will be time to head up to Bloc for the first in the series of nights beng put on by Armellodie Records. Cleverly billed as 'Barmellodie', this 6-month residency sees the label putting on a [...]
Artist: The Scottish Enlightenment From: Dunfermline & Aberdeen Label: Armellodie Records Website: Myspace / Official The Scottish Enlightenment are [...]
This is 'alternative folk music' clearly enough, if you want to call it something, but there are times when just for atmosphere that sounds like very much the wrong term to describe this album. There's actually an air of early nineties indie to it at times, although that's possibly in the vocal, possibly in the actual song structures themselves. The style and emphasis of Johny Lamb's voice add to that impression as well as just the timbre of it, but don't ask me to pin it down any better than that though, because I don't think I could. [...]
This, boys and girls, is every bit as awesome as I expected. Get in ! Whenever you start listening to an album of which have serious expectations there is always the likelihood that it will disappoint. This one, I was careful not to over-anticipate for just that reason. Also, The Scottish Enlightenment's music isn't the kind of music to bowl you over, particularly, it just washes over you in an unhurried, unassuming kind of way, and it's usually only afterwards that you realise how much you've enjoyed it. There is a kind of bigness to [...]
Would you care to introduce yourself? Peenko when you call me, you can call me Al. Super Adventure Club - My Other Brain (from the album Avoid Zombies out now) What inspired you to start your own label? Vonda [...]
I must be the last person in bloody Scotland to review this album, but I have never really clicked with Super Adventure Club particularly, so I suppose it was inevitable that I showed very little urgency when it came to really giving Avoid Zombies* a proper, attentive listen. It's reminded me, in a slightly by-the-bye sort of way, of the value of labels and collectives too. Armellodie Records seem to be on a bit of a roll at the moment, and the fact that these Edinburgh to Glasgow transplants were working with Al was definitely something [...]
This is not only a bloody good EP, it is also the resurrection of an extremely promising band I feared might be slowly drifting into obscurity, as well as my introduction to a really exciting-looking new Glaswegian record label: Armellodie Records. One of the first Scottish bands I unearthed for myself when I started music blogging [...]
This is not only a bloody good EP, it is also the resurrection of an extremely promising band I feared might be slowly drifting into obscurity, as well as my introduction to a really exciting-looking new Glaswegian record label: Armellodie Records. One of the first Scottish bands I unearthed for myself when I started music blogging was The Scottish Enlightenment. They were about to releases their first single, Eyes, on Moojuice Records and I was really quite excited by their neat intellectualism, and guitar sounds which seemed cut from very classic indie cloth indeed - I am a [...]
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