Idiogram, Scotland On Sunday, 26 January 2025
Idiogram | Dragon Soop Artist of the Week in Scotland On Sunday, 26 January 2025
This East Lothian-based quartet is producing some otherworldly music, write Derick Mackinnon and Olaf Furniss read Scotsman.com
In a rare week where several planets aligned, it is fitting that the space-obsessed members of Idiogram, chose to release their latest single, Hyperaccumulator. In fact, Keith Kirkwood the drummer of the East Lothian-based quartet, is even helping to build a scale model of the solar system in the village of Dirleton.
Idiogram’s sound continues in this vein of otherworldliness, with infusions of strange electronic sounds, math-rock, ambient and classical, which is likely to appeal to fans of Battles, Public Service Broadcasting and DJ
The instrumental four-piece were brought together by keyboardist Lesley Crawford, with Chamber Studio’s maestro Graeme Young enlisted on production duties with the first two singles garnering some decent interest.
Their latest release is accompanied by a video shot by Tom Swift in a mothballed nuclear bunker in Edinburgh and the track is taken from their forthcoming album Reunion Of Broken Parts, which is out on 22 March, including a CD version. This will be accompanied by a launch gig at the capital’s Caves venue on the same day, but for anyone keen to see the earlier, there is a special show at the Lodge Arts Collective near Lockerbie on 21 February see https://ajforty7.com/
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