Scotsman Ewan Cruikshanks just released debut album A Glasgow Band is a particular record. Setting off with an instrumental that sounds something like Sonic Youth warming up, it quickly moves on to different spaces and moods and never lets up over the course of its eleven tracks. Some Scottish flecked indie pop, bits of Glam, Elliot Smith and Teenage Fanclub plangent moments, Afro-Pop, even Neil Young style workouts, melodic but determinedly leftfield at all times with Cruikshanks distinctly Scottish vocals the only real common denominator.
The diversity of it is initially somewhat disconcerting but eventually becomes the record's most interesting characteristic. Cruikshank is undoubtedly a talent but a determinedly non-conformist one. A Glasgow Band is a neat and rather fascinating calling card and a distinctly more-ish one!
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