Limbo

Battery Face Industrial growls, groans and howls fill the air. Battery Face start as they mean to on. They mix riffing so heavy it sounds like two bulldozers wrestling, synth with a ferocious bite, Paganini level virtuoso guitar playing, and punk yelling Rotten would be proud of. Brutal and uncompromising. The songs crackle and fizz […]

Scuzzy Edinburgh rockers Edinburgh School For The Deaf return to Limbo for the third time, headlining this special showcase night for fledgling Scottish label Strange Fish with support from fellow Limbo alumni Plastic Animals, now expanded to a five-piece and gathering momentum as an alt. rock combo, and Glasgow-based newcomers Battery Face, who have been […]

Plastic Animals Plastic Animals build layers of sound. A bass dances. A guitar wails. Distorted howling. It cascades onto everyday pop songs to give them a character all of their own. One intro feels like paragliding over Iceland; the soundscape suggesting huge, abrupt topography while the guitar adds whistles through rocky crags. For all the […]

Edinburgh’s Plastic Animals make atmospheric, guitar-driven, harmonious noise. They formed in 2006, drawing inspiration from bands ranging from The Velvet Underground to Deerhunter. After spending several years in the wilderness they re-emerged with an expanded line-up and a fuller, more ambient sound, culminating in the 2012 release of the well-received Automaton EP. Praise for “Automaton”: […]