Video: The Man Who Took On Love (And Won) - The Low Miffs and Malcolm Ross

....is give an instant thumbs-up to a debut record by a new act. But this album, which I bought just three hours ago, is so fucking astonishingly brilliant that I'm making an exception. I can't do better than give you this extract from the sleevenotes, written by poet, actor and raconteur Tam Dean Burn:- soars and swoops like none has done since that other wee man the one with the whippets Here's what their press release says....and for once there's [...]

This is the video for the Low Miffs' new single The Man Who Took on Love and Won. I think they are brilliant. The band had suffered a bit of an interruption to their upwards momentum by the time I first discovered them a year or two ago, having lost a manager and a musician, and momentum is a bloody elusive quality in the music industry. They're obviously made of more determined stuff than a lot of bands though, because theire debut album is now on the verge of being released and if this song is anything to [...]