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SINGLES AND EPS
RANDOLPH’S LEAP I Can’t Dance to This Music Anymore (Lost Map) ●●●●● JAMIE XX All Under One Roof Raving (Young Turks) ●●●●●
EAGLEOWL & WOODPIGEON Lost Cat 003 (Lost Map) ●●●●●
A folksy companion to The Smiths’ Panic, this latest postcard single from Eigg’s Lost Map label establishes dancefloor refusal as a metaphor for all other kinds of reluctance, its rising fiddle and homespun orchestral motifs forming the perfect accompaniment to Adam Ross’s plaintive voice. Their label’s website describes Randolph’s Leap as a ‘32-limbed wonder from Glasgow’, and it’s also the ‘soundtrack’ to their first East End Social get-together at Bowlers Bar this month. Randolph’s Leap’s first ‘I Can’t Dance to This Music’ night is at Bowlers Bar, Glasgow, Sun 27 Jul.
Not content with Mercury-winning success with The xx and his remix collaboration with Gil Scott-Heron three years back, Jamie Smith’s latest solo releases have begun to unveil him as a producer of real individuality and style. His latest isn’t what you would
expect from the title, which is a late- night garage groove of steel drums and atmospheric vocal snippets extolling the virtues of rave culture, an echoing hymnal to basement clubs and pirate radio that’s more film score than floorfiller. jamiexx.com
Released as part of Lost Map’s Lost Cat series of hyper-limited special issues, this split cassette single between swoon-inducing Edinburgh gang eagleowl and their Canadian soulmates Woodpigeon will only be available at gigs and in very carefully selected record stores. It’s all about keeping things a little bit special, y’see? The senses-fogging, fiddle-crooning title track ‘Eagleowl vs Woodpigeon’ is from the former’s This Silent Year album, with other new bits they haven’t let us hear. Stream tracks at soundcloud.com/ lostmap/sets/lost-cat-003, eagleowl perform at Howlin’ Fling, Isle of Eigg, Fri 18–Sun 20 Jul.
ESA E.Roots EP (Burek) ●●●●● Now relocated to London, South African producer Esa Williams is well known around Glasgow for his percussion work with Auntie Flo and time served as one of the DJ team at Subculture. Recording here for Croatian label Burek, his sound across the first of these four tracks (‘Time of Planck’ and ‘Paradox Jaz’) is gorgeous, a warm minimal house crackle with little retro acid flourishes. ‘Placid Universe’ and ‘Drama Queen’ go longer on the layering of old synth sounds and are a bit less directly affecting for it. (Reviewed by David Pollock)
EXPOSURE
JONNIE COMMONWEALTH GAMES
With an album out this autumn and regular curatorship of the Save As Collective – alongside James ‘Conquering Animal Sound’ Scott, Julian ‘Miaoux Miaoux’ Corrie and Gavin ‘grnr’ Thomson – lone electro-acoustic troubadour Jonnie Common presents the third Save As night. With a name like that, the theme is unavoidable. We caught up with Jonnie to hear more. . .
Will there actually be games? There may be some between acts. We’re still working on it but plimsolls and participation won’t be mandatory.
Who’s playing?
Paddy Steer’s coming up from Manchester to headline. I’m dying to see him again and I thoroughly believe he’ll blow the minds of anyone who hasn’t seen him play before. Imagine a jazz drummer whose drum kit extends into a nest of homemade instruments, wearing a big alien-looking robot’s head that lights up when he sings. It might sound a bit daft but it really works. In the middle, we’ve got Joe Howe, formerly known as Ben Butler and Mousepad. I’ve known Joe for a long time and his music has a lo t in common with Paddy’s – they both have jazz roots while being extremely innovative with their use of electronic sound. They’re also both very talented musicians but neither strays into self-indulgence. Opening up will be Save As Collectee MC Almond Milk and his mischievous girlfriend DJ Nightmares, debuting tunes from his next comedy rap mixtape.
What can we expect from the evening? Something unique. Paddy and Joe are operating without blueprints. They’re probably the only two people I know who genuinely don’t sound like anyone else. MC Almond Milk’s wit is a razor-sharp snowflake and I’ll be DJing from an exercise bike in full PE kit. (David Pollock)
■ Glad Cafe, Glasgow, Sat 26 Jul.
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