Nelson Stanley, Logo Magazine, June 2004 [3/5]

Here’s an unfortunately named seven track mini-album of grainy, Sparklehorse-ish melancholic bedsit pop from this marvellous Scottish trio. Hammond organ swirls like smoke into winter air on ‘Say Hello To The Dolomite Hills’, before a gentle, rhythmic cloud of guitars, bass and drums counterpoint the Edinburgh-sized heartfelt chorus, and you wonder what they put in the water up there. Sometimes the musical ideas don’t match up to the raw potential of the songs, with ‘Year of the Underdog’ in particular sounding like half a good idea in search of a song, but ‘Let’s Form A Union’ is worth the price of the album (£5, I believe, from www.fencerecords.com) on its own; it’s full of longing and grit.