ERRANT BOY

Edinburgh-based trio Errant Boy’s second album Memory Fractures continues to finesse and develop the taut songwriting of debut collection A Wayward Mirror (2016).

Memory Fractures begins with Means’ Italian film sample and ends on The Undeserted House’s haunted babble. In between are snapshots of a tense Belfast childhood and alcohol-fuelled bliss and regret in Edinburgh, North London and beyond. A striking guitar gauze duels with a solid but unfussy rhythm section throughout, perfectly serving these mostly short blasts of experience. Musically, it’s melodic and lean, intense and compact. Lyrically, it draws on autobiographical fragments spanning childhood, youth, twenties cutting loose and fatherhood.

The band has also co-founded and developed Errant Media an independent label and home to Shards, Errant Boy, Stephen McLaren and Locked Hands. Releases have already been supported by BBC Introducing Scotland, BBC Radio Scotland’s Vic Galloway Show, respected blogs like Song, By Toad, Scottish Fiction, Faronheit, Almost Predictable, Almost, When You Motor Away, Penny Black and Scots Whay Hae as well as UK and international podcasters and print media like The Scotsman, The Herald, The Skinny, The List and The National. Errant Media also promotes regular gigs at Edinburgh’s revered Leith Depot.