- Label: 'Last Night From Glasgow'
- Genre: 'Indie'
- Release Date: '13.5.22.'
Our Rating:
Album Club of course have one of those band names that will always be very hard to search for, they are named after the Album Club that was held at The Laurieston In Glasgow and ran by MJ McCarthy initially meeting to discuss music. The group feature a couple of The Delgadoes, a couple of playwrights and a journalist among others.
The album opens gently with Make No Bets with barely their vocals and sparse acoustic guitar this is a song of love and heartbreak with the male female vocals working wonderfully together.
The Hard Part is more forceful and a slice of power pop indie with loads going on in the mix as we find out what the Hard Part is and if there is a way through or not.
Different Hours is a ballad for a couple trying to make it work even though they are on different shifts as the accordion accents everything not covered in the lyrics or rather cool but basic bassline.
Transmissions don't come from the satellite heart but it does feel like a soft bulletin to intoxicate and draw you in till you get to the sort of rapped part about where babies come from that feels kind of spooky.
Fragile & Frail is just that a sparse frail acoustic love song with accordion and acoustic guitar and it's just gorgeous.
Leave Me Singing does just that in a very calm Scottish folk way over a more modern indie-folk tune. Walls is a poem set to an odd indie hop backing with semi-Spanish guitar as the relationship goes to hell and back and the tune builds into something even stranger.
Night Owls is hushed middle of the night acoustic strummed folk dedicated to staying up late and getting up to stuff.
Never Sleep Alone ought to be a football chant, but is instead in hock to Arab Strap lyrically, although the music if gentler as this song of the desperation of the late night hook up so you don't go home alone once more and what you'll do to get that late night bootie call, as all sorts of stuff happens.
The album closes with When You're Ready one more gently evocative tune to help keep you nice and relaxed and ready to go to the Album Club once more.
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