Friends of Soul Fibre, Le Reno Amps (Scott, Al, Jason and Linsey) have launched their new album So For Your Thrills... on the Scottish Indie label Pet Piranha Records. The album is in shops as of Monday 9th April and is available to buy online now from HMV and EMusic amongst other places.

Emusic are one of the better suppliers; they offer proper mp3 downloads unencumbered with DRM which means you can transfer your music to any desktop, use your downloads on any portable music players (including the iPod) and burn unlimited CD's. You can sign up and get 25 FREE MP3s! (£13 worth of music just for trying eMusic out), cancel at anytime and keep the music you have downloaded.

So For your thrills... tracks listed are Dawn Says, Poison Letter, Beautiful (My Time Has Come), Stop The Clocks, Gathering Ash, Holly Wouldn't Have Me, Tree House, Deserted Sons, Radio, Patience, How You Did Me Wrong, Moving To L.A., Download and Wound Up. Support Le Reno Amps and Buy It NOW!

Elgin (Al&James) / Glasgow quartet Fickle Public (FP on MySpace) brought out their debut album yesterday (6th March) - "Bucko". It is available in 'all good record stores' but you can buy it on Amazon too. Support them. Buy it. :)

Fickle Public's Bucko, on the Smalltown America label, has had some good things said about it:

Rock Sound March ‘Album of The Month’: “Dark, brooding… brain-burstingly fierce”.
NME: “Utterly ace post-hardcore puzzle pop”.
Metro Scotland: “A blistering romp of rock'n'roll carnage”.
Kerrang!: “Rough Trade pop inspired by Fugazi, ..Trail Of Dead, Pavement and alcohol”.
Norman Records: “Drive Like Jehu/At The Drive-In melodic turbo Grrrr-fest”.
Time Out: “Yay! Proper shouty hardcore punk.
Drowned In Sound: “We salute our Fickle Public”.