#SongOfTheDay selections from @UandCEdinburgh's twitter account between January and March 2020 - mostly features bands with gigs in the Lothians or tracks by bands from the Lothians - it pretty much documents what was happening in Edinburgh & The Lothians' music scene before the coronavirus put a temporary halt to live music.

#SongOfTheDay selections (Jan-Mar 2020)

INDIE/June 2020

Jan 20 - Top new tracks for indie lovers

Save Me A Seat

Single 1 from the 2nd Instalment of Kapil Seshasayee's Desifuturist trilogy of albums.

The Item Girl - Kapil Seshasayee

Felt

Raincoat

Fingier Records is the new Acid Jazz Records subsidiary label, dedicated exclusively to the Soul, R&B, Boogaloo and Raw Funk productions from the Argentinean producer Kevin Fingier.

The relationship between Acid Jazz and this prolific young producer started with his early Reggae band Los Aggrotones, with whom he released their last album Right Now in 2019. He has also produced and worked with many Reggae artists from the 60s such as Derrick Harriott, Pat Kelly, The Cimarons and Cornell Campbell to name just a few.

After many years DJing and promoting Soul & Mod culture in Argentina, the co-founder of the Buenos Aires Soul Club decided to give a twist to his versatile production career and start to produce Soul and R&B recordings.

To achieve this, he gathered together a house band called The Kevin Fingier Collective and experimented with recording techniques used fifty years ago to get an analogue sound that’ll take you to straight to the 60s.

For the first single Kevin brought back the legendary Northern Soul singer Gerri Granger, to sing on the A-side track Don’t Wanna Cry No More – a Soul/Funk tune with a huge R&B influence. On the flip side there’s a killer Mod Jazz instrumental called Sunglasses After Dark Part 1. Pre-order here > http://bit.ly/2SK0ddN 

Look out for future releases by following @fingier_records on Facebook & Instagram.

The Kevin Fingier Collective Ft. Gerri Granger - Don't Wanna Cry No More

Debut EP out January 17th 2020 via Howlin' Banana.

Pop Crimes - Goes

Big Red Button is the third single from Fragile Creatures forthcoming second album, Punk Yacht. It will be released digitally on January 17th 2020. The album will follow in April.

Here is a vdeo of the band performing the song live: https://youtu.be/fxdPY3kaKgg

They play the Amersham Arms in New Cross on November 16th.
They play the Mesmerist in Brighton on November 23rd.

Punk Yacht will be launched at the Hope & Ruin, Brighton, on April 30th 2020.

Lyrics:

Put your finger down on the big red button
All your stars have inhibitions
Held in check by their big ambitions
Self-destructive demolition

You live a little lie, live a little lie all the time
(Life's too short to waste my time)
You live a little lie, live a little lie and then you die
(It's not what you say it's what you hide)

The big red button
The big red button

Ooh, you're gonna lose
You got every little thing confused
Why'd you even try today
Whispered doubts unfaced
My future's been erased
Why'd you even get out of bed today?

Gathered up fragments of the life you shook
You'd do anything to turn back the clock
Pressed dried flower in the pages of a book
The scent's still pure if you'd open up

You live a little lie, live a little lie all the time
(Life's too short to waste my time)
You live a little lie, live a little lie and then you die
(It's not what you say it's what you hide)

The big red button
The big red button

Ooh, you're gonna lose
You got every little thing confused
Why'd you even try today?
Every little thing you say
Gets taken the wrong way
I only ran a mile
Instead of coming to your aid
Why'd you have to run away?
Why'd you tell me half the tale?
In time things will be okay once again

The big red button

Big Red Button

Flood

Featuring guest vocals from Isa Pill and guest guitar from Eric Di Martino!

Silver Tipped Cane

It was recorded at Hempstead Road Studios w/Steph Carter (ex gallows)
(Set for release March 2020)

TOVA are an off-kilter four-piece rock band from the UK. Blending the in-your-face swagger of Enter Shikari and Highly Suspect with the live energy of IDLES, TOVA’s niche blend of influences immerse their rapidly growing audiences in a frenzy of intensity and emotion.

Gun Dogs

GunDogs

Recorded and produced by Scotty Anderson of Magic box, Dundee
Filmed by Troy Nelson of Magic box, Dundee

The Ryder

Kaptan - Whatever You Want

In the light

In The Light

Glass Jar Dreams

New music from OffWorld. 
Written and recorded after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson and the subsequent protests sparking the Black Lives Matter movement. The track features dialogue from emergency service radio heard during the confusion of the following days, they sadly mirror what is happening today and has been happening since then. 
#Black Lives Matter.

The Ryder

New mode