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This month on Is This Music? we hear another staggeringly good selection of the best new music coming into the right honourable Stuart McHugh’s letter/inbox. Mitchell Museum, Cold Seeds, Kid Canaveral and Lupen Crook in amongst it.

Stuart plays an intriguingly diverse (if he says so himself) selection from locations as diverse as France and Larbert. Includes  a new project involving King Creosote; “One of the great English voices” according to John Peel; and perhaps Scotland’s most promising new band. Listen on…

Stuart McHugh celebrates the World Cup with a bunch of music from artists from non-participating countries (including Scotland). Er, apart from the Americans who close the show. Damn.

Tracklist

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Is This Music?’s editor Stuart McHugh throws together a healthy heady mix of the familiar (Shonen Knife,  New Pornographers) the unknown (Fear The FIves, Templehof), and the unusual (Jowe Head, Atari Teenage Riot). And something new from Teenage Fanclub this week too…

Tracklist

1. Shonen Knife – Super Group – Tomato Head / Damnably
2. We See Lights – Parachutes – Record Union
3. Atari Teenage Riot – Activate – DHR
4. Fear The Fives – Balkan Ekspres (myspace.com/fearthefives)
5. New Pornographers – The Moves – Matador
6. The Scottish Enlightement – Pascal – Armellodie
7. Wildbirds & Peacedrums- Under Land And Over Sea – Leaf
8. Jowe Head – Cake Shop Girl – Poppydisc
9. Teenage Fanclub – Sometimes I Don’t Need To Believe In Anything – PEMA
10. Tempelhof – Leaving Home  - Distraction single

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Stuart McHugh rounds up a batch of current and future releases, from the familiar (The National, Eflerklang) to the more obscure (Beneath Us The Waves, Vacuum Spasm Babies) and spanning the globe, from Brooklyn to Poland and back to Galashiels.

Tracklist

1. The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio – 4AD
2. Beneath Us the Waves – Elegy For Tramway – mp3
3. Super Adventure Club – SAC Attack – Armellodie
4. Being747 – Reigning Reptiles -Wrath
5. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Round and Round – 4AD
6. Deathpodal – Every Superstition
7. North Atlantic Oscillation – Some Blue Hive – KScope
8. Efterklang – I Was Playing Drums – 4AD
9. Vacuum Spasm Babies – Science Division – Shark Batter

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Stuart McHugh presents a Fence Homegame weekend special of sorts… This week’s show features a few bands who played at the festival (Benni Hemm Hemm, Fake Eyelashes and Love.Stop.Repeat) plus an exclusive (read: unique and decidedly lo-fi) excerpt from King Creosote’s ’8th Bit of Strange in 14 Years’.

Benni Hemm Hemm plays The Roxy, in Edinburgh on the Monday 29 March and Bloc in Glasgow on Tuesday 30 March. And please keep an eye on Radio Magnetic for more from Homegame in the coming weeks.

Tracklist

1. The Boy Who Trapped the Sun – Home – Chess Club
2. Love.Stop.Repeat – Remembering (Adem remix) – DeFence
3. Fake Eyelashes – Pentimento – Creeping Bent
4. Murder Ford Monument – Bones – MFM
5. Mutate – Sun Shines Through – Stray Recordings
6. Benni Hemm Hemm – Retaliate – Kimi
7. Miss The Occupier – Glue Me to Thee – download
8. Kingbastard – Seawater Fool – Firewater Fool – Herb
9. King Creosote – Trigger Happy I Am – Fence

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Stuart McHugh separates the wheat from the chaff in the landfill indie pile and sees the cream of new releases rise to the top in a sea of mixed metaphors. This edition of the is this music? Podcast includes a track from the brand new Emma Pollock album, and also a tune from Burnt Island amongst much more.

Those two come together (alongside Josh Pike) at Glasgow’s King Tut’s on Friday 19 March. Burnt Island‘s mini-album Music and Maths is launched at Glasgow’s Mono on Sunday 7 March with appearances by Aidan Moffat, Second Hand Marching Band and Benni Hemm Hemm. Also up this time round, the latest from Stow College’s Electric Honey signings Woodenbox With A Fistful of Fivers and Warp Record’s Gonja Sufi.

Tracklist

1. Emma Pollock – Red Orange Green – Chemikal Underground
2. The Paraffins – Something Good – Ear Spook
3. Burnt Island – Music and Maths – Chaffinch
4. Gonja Sufi – Ancestors – Warp
5. Pensioner – Goodbye Tension Hello Pension – self-released
6. Serena Maneesh – Reprobate – 4AD
7. Woodenbox with a Fistful of Fivers - Besides The Point – Electric Honey
8. Streets of Rage – untitled – unlabeled
9. The Wildhouse – Ficca – 17seconds
10. Scott MacDonald – Tabla Alba – www.scott-macdonald.com
11. Marble Valley – Artificial Pistols – Sea

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Stuart McHugh delves into the bulging itm? sack to find new and forthcoming releases from among others Efterklang, Panda Su and Errors. Listen in.

There’s also a track from The Unwinding Hours, the band formed from the ashes of Aereogramme, and who, following a debut at the Chemilal Underground 15th Annniversary party, have their debut headline show at Glasgow’s Stereo on the Friday 5 March.

Tracklist

1. Charlotte Gainsborough – Trick Pony – Because
2. Mascot Fight – Trawler (Losers Can’t Be Choosers EP) – Casette County
3. Panda Su – Eric is Dead – Peter Panda
4. Quasi – Repulsion – Domino
5. The Unwinding Hours – Tightrope – Chemikal Underground
6. Viv Albertine – Never Come – Ecstatic Peace
7. Shearwater – Black Eyes – Matador
8. Frightened Rabbit – Living In Colour – Fat Cat
9. Efterklang – Raincoats – 4AD
10. Errors – Antipode – Rock Action

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