Lucky Dip #1

Firstly, an explanation and a disclaimer. Dauphin is made up primarily of reviews, of releases and of live shows. But I have eight emails in my inbox just from today and I don’t want to review each song in there, and before I get through them all there will be more tracks to review, and the cycle will continue. I’m usually okay at getting through stuff, but I don’t want this blog to become a chore, or something I have to do rather than I want to do. I know, poor, whiny me. So instead of producing crap reviews, or ignoring people who contact me, I’m going to start up a new feature.

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Wolves of Winter

I’ve been listening to a track by Wolves of Winter, an act I covered back last year. It’s their new single, The Thaw, and it’s pretty nice. You can download for free from their Bandcamp page here, or below via the embedded player. You can view the original post here.

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Rick Redbeard & Adam Stafford

There’s a new split single out on Gerry Loves Records. It’s got two tracks from Rick Redbeard (actually an alias; he is the frontman of The Phantom Band) and two tracks from Adam Stafford. You can listen to it here or below. The single is out on the 25th of June but I think you can buy it off the website now.

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Nocturnal Wandering

If you go on the website of King Post Kitsch, you can get a free EP. A free EP! My favourite kind.

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The Winter Tradition

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Way back last October I saw a band called The Winter Tradition play at Electric Circus as part of the Oxjam festival. Back then I said that:

The Winter Tradition are a four-piece folk group who were great live. They had to compete with a half-full room of people talking over the music, which was annoying but it’s bound to happen in somewhere like the Circus (the layout sort of facilitates it)…so yeah; soft folk vibes interlaced with rougher-hewn vocals that are closer to Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly than the pop-folk of Mumford et al.”

Since then, they’ve released a new single, in support of their album Gradients which is due out in June. The single, San Diego, was released about five days ago. The video for it is below.

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Thank You So nice

I have been listening to a band called Thank You So Nice lately. They’re releasing their new single for free online, here. They’re also playing Henry’s Cellar Bar on June 1st, the details of which are here. The single is the first to come from their forthcoming album. Make Love Not Money.

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The Long Lies

The Long Lies are a Glasgow-based indie rock band. Their debut single, released on the 18th of June, is called Trouble.

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Boxes

Boxes aren’t Scottish, they’re from Brighton, I think. That’s kind of irrelevant because their debut album, Stickers, out on the 11th of June, is quite good. It’s a side project from one of the guys in Athlete, a band I’m pretty sure I completely missed out on. Am I missing out on much? Either way, Stickers is great.

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Song of the Day #66

Hello chaps. Today’s Song of the Day is The Storm by Sonic Hearts Foundationtheir debut single, which came out exactly 23 days ago.

I really like this – the video and the lingering phantasmal guitar remind me a lot of The Horrors and, in particular, the mesmerising video for Sea Within A Sea.

They’re friends with fellow Glaswegian band Strawberry Ocean Sea, who are playing their first ever gig in Edinburgh very soon (details here), at Sneaky Pete’s.

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Song of the Day #65

Today’s Song of the Day is Ode to an End by Edinburgh band Capitals. The video is “A video of hazy memories, made for a song about memories.”

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