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Review: If any album comes close to the beauty of Crosby, Stills & Nash in 2025 it's this. It's difficult to imagine anyone else nailing melodic, acoustic guitar-oriented music that treads in gospel, blues and pastoral psychedelia better than this supergroup. Could Bernard Butler be on his way to another Mercury Prize nomination with this? They've got a strong case for it. The band itself is something a little different and formed by popular demand. Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) Bernard Butler (Suede) and James Grant (Love and Money) originally got together for one occasion, at Saint Luke's in Glasgow in 2022 for Celtic Connections, but the power of them together was so great they've been talked into putting an album out. They've gone about it in quite a pragmatic way, with each member labelling which songs theirs, as opposed to all trying to write the same song at the same time. Makes sense really.

Review: There's no denying it: this is a supergroup. When you have Norman Blake (songwriter and lead vocalist of Scottish indie rock royalty Teenage Fanclub) Bernard Butler (Mercury Prize nominated solo artist, serial collaborator and former Suede member) and James Grant (a Glaswegian from highly regarded sophisti-pop band Love and Money) you can't say this is an ordinary line-up. The group first played together at Saint Luke's in Glasgow in 2022 for Celtic Connections and the response to their stunning songwriting was so strong they left a gaping hole when they stopped playing. Thankfully they can now have an eternal presence through the shape of this album, which involved a novel means of collaboration. Instead of splitting the songwriting within a song, each member labels which song is theirs then all three perform. The lead single 'Bring An End' (Norman Blake's) explores renewal and love, with the lyrics particularly evocative when underpinned by pastoral psych instrumentation. There's a Crosby, Stills & Nash level of tenderness to the harmonies and delicate guitar interplay, leaving an unforgettable impression in its wake.