Ballads of the Book
The Guardian - Review of the Ballads of the Book album recorded at Chem19A slew of vastly talented people including Trashcan Sinatras, Lord Cut-Glass, Alasdair Gray, Ali Smith, Vashti Bunyan, Sons and Daughters and Ian Rankin have pretty much guaranteed that the whole thing has turned out exceptionally well and in a ridiculously friendly atmosphere. Lyrical folk, politicised rage, a shattering meditation on death, a chat with Jesus, love, hate and Calvinism - it's a varied compilation with an underlying commitment that makes it curiously unified, and not a Scottish cliché to be found.