The Pearlfishers are a Scottish, Glasgow-based band (among its contributors: drummer Jim Gash, Dee Bahl, Brian McAlpine, Mil Stricevic and Duglas T. Stewart, also of the BMX Bandits) and now the solo project of the singer and songwriter David Scott, its only constant member. The Pearlfishers mixes acoustic-based music with subtle orchestral flourishes, refined and broadened their sound while maintaining coherence and uniqueness. Scott began writing songs while a teenager in Glasgow in the early ’80s and, after founding Chewy Raccoon (!) and Hearts and Minds, formed The Pearlfishers (named after the Bizet opera), with drummer Jim Gash, featuring Brian McAlpine on keyboards and bassist Mil Stricevic. Their debut single, Sacred, was out in late 1990 and an EP, Hurt, followed shortly. The Pearlfishers’ debut album, Za Za’s Garden, was released in August 1993. Signing with the German label Marina Records, Scott and McAlpine released, in 1997, The Strange Underworld of the Tall Poppies and in 1999 The Young Picnickers. 2001’s Across the Milky Way  was the first (almost) solo album by Scott (with a dozen guest musicians), followed by Sky Meadows in 2003, A Sunflower At Christmas in 2004 and Up With The Larks, three years later. After a seven years’ hiatus, Your Colouring Book arrived in 2014 and Love & Other Hopeless Things in 2019. Another five years hiatus led The Pearlfishers to Making Tapes For Girls, produced with Johnny Smillie (Thrum), which was out in May, as usual via Marina Records.

Daniel McGee aka Zenxith is a 22 year old indie pop songwriter/musician from North East England. The prolific independent D.I.Y. lofi indie pop artist (in the last two years he recorded five album, a couple of compilations and various singles) makes gentle lofi indie pop with jangle melodies & very direct lead lines to accompany the multi tracked exasperated vocals, covered in tambourines. No band, no studio, all solo & done in the bedroom & recorded on a phone, Zenxith also uses a drum machine for all his songs. Despite the young age of its composer, McGee’s music seems to arrive directly from the golden age of indie music, the period from 1982 and 1987, the five years that changed indie guitar music forever.
His latest album, From The Corners Of My Cold Room was out on September 13rd and it’s self released. Check also the great double album reissue I Was Named After Daniel Treacy / Bonny’s Garden Party, which was out on Subjangle in February.