Memo to self……make sure you’ve actually gone beyond the draft stage of a post before scheduling it…especially when you are using the previous entry in the series as the template and typing over things, while using cut’n’paste.
As chaval suggests in his comment, it looked as if someone like William Burroughs was guest posting a bit earlier!
Anyways…………..what I wanted to say was that this blog is very late to the party that is Vulture Party. And offers its sincere apologies.
The Falkirk-based band, consisting of Louise Ward (vocals, piano, synth), David King (vocals, guitar, synth), Dickson Telfer (bass, synth) and Roddy Campbell (drums, and percussion) have been making music since 2019, describing their material as ‘disquieting ALT POP for the socially conscious.’
The self-titled debut album was released on one of the Last Night From Glasgow imprints back in 2020, but their promotional activities were frustrated by the COVID restrictions imposed everywhere at the time.
A number of folk, whose thoughts and views on music are always worth taking heed of, suggested that I’d like what Vulture Party were doing, but I never got round to acting on things. I eventually caught them live as the opening act at an Adam Stafford gig in their home town in late 2021 and wasn’t disappointed. I picked up a copy of the debut album shortly afterwards, but never quite found the time to write about it.
It’s a beguiling listen, one that is far from easy to categorise. The suggestion of disquieting ALT POP for the socially conscious seems about right. This was the song with which they introduced themselves to the world:-
Last October saw the band release their second album, Archipelago, again via Last Night From Glasgow. This time round, I picked up a copy early on, but it was at a time when I had little or no spare time to give it a listen. Indeed, it took until Spring 2023 before I actually put it on the turntable, having forgotten all about it until doing a bit of long-overdue tidying up of albums – my only defence is that I had filed it away in the wrong place alongside ‘old records’ and not in the box where I store the newly bought things that should be listened to.
It’s an excellent listen offering a number of shifts in direction throughout, which most certainly means you can never accuse the band of being one-dimensional. The songs immediately feel bolder and more confident sounding than those on the debut, and without it ever feeling as if it is a completely commercial-sounding record, it has quite a few moments which make me think that they would go down well if given the opportunity to shine of decent sized stages at the summer festivals
mp3: Vulture Party – Blood Wolf Moon
You can check out a lot more at this bandcamp page. I think you may enjoy what you find.
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