The Leg
The Leg
Oozing A Crepuscular Light
(Song, By Toad)
It begins with a Ry Cooder slide guitar galloping through the Cowgate on a bender with Frankie Laine's Rawhide. Later, the insectoid cabaret of 25 Hats (mocked by the laughter of its descending cello scale) bleeds into the Keystone Kops piano riff of Chicken Slippers. No idea is deemed too strange for Edinburgh trio The Leg, as they increase their grip on melody while loosening the restraints on their dadaist approach to the art of pop. Lionlicker is a sweary nursery rhyme set to the delightful sparkle of open keyboard chords while that same piano (played by cellist Pete Harvey) strops off in a more thunderous mood on Don't Bite A Dog. There are only eight songs here across a brief 24 minutes, but it's time well spent as tuneful hooks draw the listeners in even as Daniel Mutch's lyrics furrow their brows. All in all, it's lo on fi but surprisingly hi on fun, and completes a hat-trick of excellent 2013 releases (Adam Stafford, Sparrow And The Workshop) from indie label Song, By Toad.
Alan Morrison
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article