Save As Collective presents CARBS (album launch), Phoene, Sham Gate at The Glad Cafe, 12/9/15

I’m feeling a touch fragile tonight, but I’ve had a kind of boyish joy over the incredibly listenable debut album from Glasgow duo CARBS this last week, and this seems to override the hangover enough for me to make the journey south to The Glad Cafe, for, would you believe it, the first time ever.

WOLF / PHOENE – SNOWBLIND

An audio/visual/all sorts collaboration: indeed, SNOWBLIND refers to a game and whole piece rather than the individual tracks – this is crunching electronica with take no prisoners beats but the most ethereal of wobbliness going on all around. Otherworldly and indeed creating a snowy hinterland it’s eerie stuff; though at the same time oddly comforting;