> Stephen McColgan, Author at SNACK: Music, film, arts and culture magazine for Scotland


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Panda Bear, Slay (Glasgow) 1st June 2025 – Gig Review

Seeing Panda Bear live is always going to be less of a sweat-drenched, cider-in-your-hair ...

Junk Pups ‘Ball And Chain’ (EP Review)

The debut EP from Glasgow’s self-described ‘queer four-piece art-rock band’ arrives with enough blistering ...

Single Review – Lay Me Down by racecar

East Lothian’s premier palindromic trio have been curiously below our radars since the release ...

Gallus – We Don’t Like The People We’ve Become – Track by Track review

When you’ve built a solid reputation based on your live performances, canning that gig ...

Track by Track: Indigo De Souza – All of This Will End

Writing music reviews while avoiding reductive clichés can be trickier than it seems. It’s ...

Track by Track: Desire Marea – On the Romance of Being

South African duo FAKA have been prominent standard bearers of queer culture in their ...

Track by Track: U.S. Girls – Bless This Mess

It’s unfair on artists that get categorised according to their label yet everything associated ...

Track by Track: Sault – 11

The history of the long-playing record in popular music is littered with cautionary tales ...

Track by Track: Blew the veils – Lampwork

A collaborative output from someone primarily known as a singer-songwriter and someone known primarily ...

Track by Track: Amateur Cult – The Mirrored Pattern

The debut album by Edinburgh’s Amateur Cult seems able to leave a deeply personal ...

Track by Track: Ultraflex – Infinite Wellness

To a neutral, long-term observer, it may appear as though we harbour some sort ...