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Armellodie is 10

by Armellodie Records

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Ian Reynolds
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Ian Reynolds Discovered Armellodie through Yip Man, but the whole album makes great listening - very varied. My other favorite track is 'Under a Glass Table'. Eight excellent minutes. Will definitely be checking out more from Armellodie. Favorite track: Pick Up Sticks.
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“Armellodie Records is one of those beautiful indie labels that realises music needs to be put out and made available, but without a commercial expectation.” - Drowned in Sound

“Glasgow’s Armellodie Records has an impressive pedigree when it comes to releasing original music that pushes the envelope.” - Scotland on Sunday

It has been ten years since Scotland’s Armellodie Records first began to showcase its eclectic, haphazard approach to popular music. This here compilation is a celebration of a decade of meaningfully carefree shenanigans lovingly shepherded by Scottish indie workhorses Al Nero and Scott Maple.

Armellodie is all of the things that a great indie label should be. It is first and foremost a project born of, and sustained by, the pleasure of creating something good. Maple and Nero never got into this for wealth or status, and as such they are willing to support and share the music that excites them over the music that has an obvious commercial appeal. This is good for us all. A fear of financial losses in the streaming age has the potential to take the wind out of many small labels’ sails and sees increasingly trend-led and conservative rosters. Fortunately for us, the world is full of such keen and unselfish people as our champions here and Armellodie alongside various likeminded collectives and DIY projects has become a home for the dishevelled and unusual. The unlikely pop eccentrics that form a partial antidote to the music that conforms more easily to today’s commercial sensibilities.

The Armellodie roster is a hydra of different heads, from the pristine indie of The Hazey Janes to the mathematically challenging musical prowess of Super Adventure Club. From the project and concept driven Dan Lyth, The Douglas Firs and Thirty Pounds of Bone to the pure unhinged madness of Galoshins and Kill the Captains. Many aesthetics are tolerated in this camp and rightly so. The label’s non-idiomatic approach allows every release to feel fresh, and allows the Armellodie camp to avoid the stale and moribund notions of a ‘brand’. It is a great thing to have a place that stables The Scottish Enlightenment in all their thoughtful, crystalline density, but at the same time introduces the country punk eccentricity of Cuddly Shark or the expensive, trend resistant, blue-eyed grooves of supergroup The Pure Conjecture.

With recent releases by the terminally popular Yip Man, and the post structural satirists Bloke Music, Armellodie shows no signs of slowing down. This can only be a wonderful thing. This celebratory compilation gives a fragment from throughout the history of the roster and evidences the immense and diverse talent within. Sit back and allow the landscape to shift under you from the clockwork flawlessness of Something Beginning With L one minute to the spiky energy of Saint Max and the Fanatics the next. Take in the charm of Conor Mason, and be unnerved by Gastric Band. At the end find the bouncing pop gem of a song that began it all, that 7” single by Le Reno Amps.

From tiny acorns evidently peculiar and misshapen little oaks can grow; oaks that bear the most beautiful leaves. This is a label founded on friendship and collaboration, and on knowing something might be a risky idea, but doing it anyway, just because it feels good. We need the little projects, the home grown, miniature visionaries, maybe now more than ever, lest we be swallowed whole by the demographic assurance and banality of the dying embers of late capitalism. Long live all the indies and long live Armellodie. Here’s to another decade of beautiful outsiders. [Johny Lamb, January 2017]

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released March 31, 2017

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Armellodie is a tiny wee independent label, stable, collective, R.O.C.K consortium, based in Glasgow, Scotland.

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