Lorna Irvine

Lorna Irvine is a Glasgow based arts critic with a profound fear of marzipan.

Reviews: 87

Other Articles: 3

Tanya Tagaq - Tongues

Tanya Tagaq
Tongues

Inuit artist brings more bold and uncompromising visions

Love Object New Flesh

Love Object
New Flesh

Russian duo’s album is like a grating 80s pastiche

Closet Disco Queen

Closet Disco Queen
Stadium Rock For Punk Bums

Excellent EP from Swiss duo blows the dust from 2021

ItsNotAllRockNRoll

Interview

Jim Burns

Director of It’s Not All Rock & Roll, a new documentary about Hamburg duo Swearing At Motorists, talks to Lorna Irvine about putting the film together

Soft Cell live at London Eventim Apollo 4 (c) David Pearce 2021

Academy Glasgow

Soft Cell

Wonderful evening of greatest hits proves there’s still fire in their bellies

Mogwai

Royal Concert Hall

Mogwai

Glasgow legends play a triumphant homecoming show

Nation Of Language A Way Forward

Nation Of Language
A Way Forward

Second album from Brooklyn band has the chops

Julia Shapiro Zorked

Julia Shapiro
Zorked

Goth and dream pop-influenced solo album is beautiful but gloomy

Efterklang - Windflowers

Efterklang
Windflowers

Denmark’s ambient pop trio return with pretty if unremarkable album

Philip Frobos Vague Enough To Satisfy

Philip Frobos
Vague Enough To Satisfy

First solo album by Omni frontman comes over like lo-fi Alan Partridge

Nick Cave Warren Ellis

Theatre Royal Glasgow

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis

An immaculate conception, and big Nick energy

Karine Polwart - Still As Your Sleeping

Karine Polwart and Dave Milligan
Still As Your Sleeping

Simple, pure and beautiful storytelling

Stills of a Lockdown City

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Stills of a Lockdown City – Brian Hartley and Dylan Lombard

Inventive exhibition in a Glasgow tenement garden documents the city in lockdown

Flowerland Pearl & The Oysters

Pearl and the Oysters
Flowerland

French-Americans’ third album is nice, if too summery

Kat Von D - Love Made Me Do It

Kat Von D
Love Made Me Do It

Impressive guest list can’t save celebrity tattoo artist’s debut from being style over substance

Dot Allison Heart Shaped Scars

Dot Allison
Heart Shaped Scars

Scottish singer-songwriter’s seventh album feels familiar

Piroshka - Love Drips and Gathers

Piroshka
Love Drips And Gathers

Second album is an intimate and beautiful look at family

Supermilk Four By Three

Supermilk
Four By Three

Beautiful album that invokes many first times

St Vincent Daddys Home

St Vincent
Daddy’s Home

Introspection and retro influences make for a satisfying album

Buffet Lunch The Power Of Rocks

Buffet Lunch
The Power Of Rocks

Debut album gives good angular, and much more

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Alan Vega
Mutator

Lost album from the late singer is worth dipping into

New Long Leg

Dry Cleaning
New Long Leg

Debut album is a deadpan mêlée

As Days Get Dark

Arab Strap
As Days Get Dark

Moffat and Middleton return with a pleasing new-ish sound and some familiar themes

Bicep Isles

Bicep
Isles

Perfection, with old-school rave and future facing beats from the Belfast kids