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Brògeal

Scottish firebrands have infused their old-fashioned indie rock with a hearty Celtic sauce.

They were bored students in a messy punk band, now they are 'roving Falkirk bairn': wandering boys from the Scottish Lowlands. Brògeal makes pastoral folk punk - an Irish-Scottish blend that naturally brings to mind The Pogues, The Dubliners, and The Proclaimers, but also the pointed early days of Arctic Monkeys and Oasis. They have plenty of bravado, like so many British bands just starting out. But it’s the village kind of bravado, characterized by an ironic sense of community, precisely because everyone secretly dreams of escaping. An anthem like 'Fly Away' is meant to be sung on a souped-up moped - 65 km/h - on a single track road, going nowhere.


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