1. There Will Be Fireworks – There Will Be Fireworks 2. Pictish Trail – Secret Soundz Vol.1 3. Kid Canaveral – Shouting At Wildlife 4. The Savings and Loan – Today I Need Light 5. Star Wheel Press – Life Cycle Of A Falling Bird 6. King Creosote – […]
1. Frightened Rabbit – Pedestrian Verse 2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away 3. There Will Be Fireworks – The Dark, Dark Bright 4. The National – Trouble Will Find Me 5. Quickbeam – Quickbeam 6. Boards Of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest 7. […]
The release of “Tigermilk” was very much a watershed moment for Avalanche so here are the top 12 best selling Scottish albums since that historic day when originally it was only available from ourselves, Missing and FOPP. As you can see it is a clean sweep at the top for Belle and Sebastian with “The […]
You will of course be able to buy the album on the day. This is one in-store you should not miss.
When one of your favourite indie bands signs to a major and one of your all time favourite artists releases an album it is always a worry that something might go horribly wrong. There was it turned out no need to worry and both Frightened Rabbit and Nick Cave produced albums of outstanding quality. […]
After the media attention last time I’m very wary as to how I couch my words. Certainly the problem then was people didn’t read all the statement and in some cases just read the first paragraph. So what is happening ? My break in the lease for the Grassmarket shop was this November and I […]
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Today kind of summed up the days I have these days. First customer was a young girl at university in Lancaster but from near Portland, Oregon whose friend had been in the shop last year and insisted she should come up. She bought posters and vinyl and we chatted about Portland’s support for independent shops. […]
I’ve always had a problem in that a customer would buy The Savings and Loan album and come back wanting “something as good”. I would give them the Star Wheel Press album and they would come back again. Sometimes it would be the other way round but always at that point I had nothing in […]
So finally it’s here and what everybody will want to know is is it as good as the first album and was it worth the wait. The first answer is easy. It could never “feel” as good as the first album as no second album ever can if it follows a genuinely stunning debut. This […]
