SATURDAY’S SCOTTISH SONG : #1 : A.C. ACOUSTICS

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AC Acoustics formed in Glasgow in the early 90s. Wiki mentions that they were heavily inspired by The Jesus and Mary Chain – blending white noise with early Pavement-style experimentation and, on occasion, augmenting their two guitar, bass and drums instrumentation with saxophones and violins.

They released a total of eight singles and four albums between 1992 and 2002, with the most critically acclaimed – Understanding Music – released originally in 2000 enjoying a re-release a full decade later.

Despite never obtaining much commercial success, they were well liked by many of their better known peers in the industry and toured as the opening act for the likes of PJ Harvey, Spacemen 3, Embrace, Stereophonics and Placebo.

I’ve only one of their tracks. It appeared on 22-track compilation CD entitled Park Lane Archives released in 2009 that brought together songs (mostly in demo version but some otherwise never previously released) that had been recorded in a Glasgow studio, located as you might have guessed, in Park Lane which is not all that far from Villain Towers.

mp3 : a.c.acoustics – Bluff Drive By

This was one of the previously unreleased tracks.  It reminds me very much of Pavement. It also comes to a very abrupt and unexpected ending.

Enjoy

 

3 thoughts on “SATURDAY’S SCOTTISH SONG : #1 : A.C. ACOUSTICS

  1. I remember being particularly partial to ‘Stunt Girl’ and ‘I Messiah Am Jailer’ at the time and should’ve taken the time to explore further than I did. I enjoyed this tune a lot.

  2. Interesting. Definitely never heard of this outfit. Sounds like Pinback fronted by a Scot. Doing the sort of loud/quiet/loud guitar thing popular at the time. Interesting.

  3. Got speaking to the manager/owner of The Variety pub on Sauchiehall St a few months back who said he was in AC Acoustics. Not sure which one he is in the picture due to the amount of hair in the picture

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