Articles by Scott Reid

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  Belle and Sebastian

  I'm A Cuckoo

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2004

  This new EP from Scotland’s Belle and Sebastian contains the irresistibly campy title track, the second single from last year’s Dear Catast...

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  Blue Orchids

  Mystic Bud

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2004

  Sometimes an album’s title can describe its sound far better than any string of lofty adjectives or obscure comparisons. You could probably...

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  Chester Copperpot

  The Kings of Kirby

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2004

  Chester Copperpot (yeah, it’s a Goonies reference) seem to have a lot in common with the Wrens. Both are comprised of 30-somethings making...

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  Music Lovers

  Cheap Songs Tell the Truth

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2004

  If one were to judge the Music Lovers’ debut EP based purely on its opening track’s first 20 or so seconds, it’d be easy to write them off...

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  Pagoda

  Dearly Departed

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2004

  Drenched in echoed guitar, soft distortion and lightly expelled vocals, Dearly Departed is the debut full-length from Washington DC’s Pagod...

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  The Heavy Blinkers

  The Night and I Are Still So Young

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  Six years and four albums into a career of channelling their love for the Beach Boys to a degree only matched by Sean O’Hagan’s High Llamas...

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  Jet Johnson

  Micropolitan

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  Jet Johnson is primarily a vehicle for Nordic singer-songwriter and bassist Caroline Nesbø, accompanied here by guitarist Gavin Baker and d...

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  P:ano

  The Den

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  For some bands, the notion that "bigger is better” seems infallible, regardless of the songs covered underneath. The Den, P:ano’s sophomore...