Podcast 2 Featuring Errors, Withered Hand, Cheer and Paul Hawkins)
By Milo | August 31, 2008
Podcast 2 (featuring Errors, Withered Hand, Cheer and Paul Hawkins)
Inspired
by the cosmic concept album of the same name by pioneering producer Joe
Meek, this brand new monthly column will highlight a selection of
unique and essential tracks by groundbreaking artists from Scotland and
further afield, all of which can be heard on the accompanying podcast.
Errors – Salut! France
Errors’
seemingly effortless, organic blend of live instruments and laptops
makes for a stupendously good live show. An updated version of Salut!
France is due to feature on their long-awaited debut album (almost
finished at time of going to press), but in the meantime this single
version, released on Mogwai’s Rock Action label last year, has lost
none of its uplifting, blistering modernity.
Withered Hand – Religious Songs
Not
many religious songs contain the line “I beat myself off when I sleep
on your futon” but the title track from Withered Hand’s new EP
(released on new label Bear Scotland) combines themes of faith, doubt,
sex and inexplicably uncomfortable furniture without blinking an eye. A
key member of the delightful but short-lived anti-folk outfit The Love
Gestures, he’s also recently played at the Fence Collective’s Homegame
festival in Anstruther and at a special Scottish Hobo Society event as
part of the (sob) last ever Triptych.
Cheer – Every Forest Has Its Shadow
Alec
Cheer is a Glasgow-based artist, animator and experimental film-maker,
and he brings this same accomplished, avant-garde sensibility to his
gorgeous ambient compositions, available from Benbecula Records. The
evocative title suits this hypnotic track perfectly, its subtly spliced
sounds like shafts of sunlight illuminating dense treetops.
Paul Hawkins – I Like it When You Call Me Doctor
A
highly disturbing tale of an underachiever with a burning need for the
kind of approval only proven medical authority can bring. From his
album The Misdiagnosis of Paul Hawkins, and also available on the first
compilation CD from Antifolk UK, it really begins to get weird when the
protagonist admits, “I got myself a uniform and hung around in
hospitals looking round for patients who looked lost.”
First published in the May 2008 issue of The Skinny and on their website.
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