Scottish Indie Sampler Vol II. [GoldMold]

What is indie music? It’s a good question especially as for most of the mid-2000s it seemed mostly synonymous with four skinny white boys with electric guitars, releasing records on nominally “independent” labels that were in practice the arms length brainchildren of some of the world’s most powerful label groups, This compilation, volume II in

Lovely Ladies/KINGSARMS – Split [Gold Mold]

I’m not quite sure when I first heard KINGSARMS but for some reason I had it stuck in my heard they were a lot more chaotic. The first track on this new split however defied my expectations; ‘Goodluck Jonathan’ is without a doubt one of poppier songs to come out of Ayr’s independent music scene,