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Album Review: Comply or Die – Depths
We love a bit of noise here at Aye Tunes, so today we are taking the short hop across the Irish Sea for some. Comply or Die are a three piece hailing from Belfast, Depths is their second album, and...
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Single Review: Cancel the Astronauts – Seven Vices
Edinburgh(ish) five piece indie popsters Cancel the Astronauts are back with a new single. Since they hold the dubious honour of having had me review all their releases to date, all two of them, I...
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New Release: Lovers Turn To Monsters – Pandas, Hearts, Blankets & Birds
Back in June Lovers Turn To Monsters, or Kyle as he’s also known, released his first “proper” album in the shape of Beyond Glasgow Howls. It was really very good, but at the time I forgot to say much...
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This Silent Forest – The Fight
Lost in the midst of my gig self promotion last week was this new single from This Silent Forest. It is too good to let pass by without mention, so I’m invoking the good old “better late than never”...
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Martin John Henry – The Other Half of Everything
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....
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Rob St. John & Ian Humberstone – Split 7"
Split singles can be funny beasts. The Gerry Loves Records team have put out a trio of great ones, yet over in a box in the corner there’s some shockers that I’ve clearly bought for just one of the...
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Black Books – An Introduction To…
I’m pretty rubbish at this blogging lark, really. Case in point, this post is about an EP I got way back in July, and only now am I actually getting round to writing about it here. Black Books come...
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Dolfinz – Teenage Doom/Nosebleed
This has been out for ages, but it’s good, so it’s getting flagged up, even if I am dead late.You might not have noticed, unless you paid attention to the amount of it that turned up in my end of...
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Loch Lomond – White Dresses EP
Loch Lomond have a Scottish sounding name, but come from Portland which is over there in that America. Their Scottish connections go further than the name though, it was a couple of releases on Song,...
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Rick Redbeard / Adam Stafford Split 7"
The men behind Gerry Loves Records have a knack for getting money out of me. Despite having a barely function record or cassette player, they’ve managed to get me to buy everything they’ve released so...
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