Original Release Date: 6 July 2015. Label: Shoogle Records. Total Length: 57:02. This is Shooglenifty’s seventh studio album, and the first to feature a collection of songs. The breathtaking ‘puirt a beul’ (mouth music) of Gaelic vocalist Kaela Rowan brings a captivating and energising new element to the band’s sound, and further confounds any attempt to categorise them.
The Untied Knot drops additional pins in the Shoogles’ map of international influences, this time hitting the road from Scotland to Rajasthan. Watch out for James Mackintosh and Kaela Rowan’s The High Road To Jodhpur, a tune that makes that connection explicit, whilst Burns’s Tam o’Shanter is the ‘closer to home’ inspiration for the title track by Quee MacArthur.
Former band member Luke Plumb’s fresh compositions – the psychedelic Arms of Sleep and The Highway Carpark, a ‘hurry up and wait’ classic – are included, whilst new mandolin player Ewan MacPherson makes his mark with three tunes. His Somebody’s Welcome To Somewhere, a tongue-in-cheek Highland march, features the princely pipes of a guesting Ross Ainslie. Ewan also contributes a dark nautical romp The Devil’s Breath Hornpipe, and speedy pair of reels clearly spawned by the Shoogle dance gene: Samhla Reel/Scolpaig.
A dazzling contribution by Garry ‘Banjo’ Finlayson, The Scorpian (sic) is a fascinating and enigmatic creature, whilst Fitzroy’s Crossing, the striking Antipodean closing track by Shooglenifty front man Angus R Grant, is proof positive that there is no musical journey this band can’t take. http://www.folkradio.co.uk/2015/08/s...e-untied-knot/

1. The Untied Knot/The Fall/Mile Marbhaisg Air A’ Ghaol 05:53
2. The Scorpian/The Devil’s Breath Hornpipe 04:18
3. Samhla Reel/Scolpaig 06:15
4. Somebody’s Welcome To Somewhere 06:16
5. Do Chrochadh A Thoill Thu, Thoill Thu/Nighean Rudh’ Bhàn Bh’aig Dòmhnall Ruadh Piobair/The Spice of Life 04:50
6. The Highway Carpark 04:06
7. Peaches/Monkswell Road/Meal Do Bhrògan 05:09
8. The High Road To Jodhpur/Am Bothan a Bh’aig Fionnghuala 03:45
9. The Arms of Sleep 05:33
10. Ruidhleadh Mo Nighean Donn/Am Buachaille Dubh Fionnghal 04:51
11. Fitzroy Crossing 06:06

Release Date: 18.09.2020. Label: Shoogle Records. Total Length: 54:24. Shooglenifty’s 9th studio album is the first to feature the new permanent line up including Eilidh Shaw on fiddle. Including tunes and songs by Eilidh, Ewan MacPherson (mandolin), and Kaela Rowan (vocals), the album also includes compositions by Shoogle pals Ian Carr and Tia Files (The Poozies). Recorded in November 2019 at Watercolour Studios in the Scottish Highlands, Acid Croft Vol 9 was produced by Andy Bell, with assistance from Barry Reid. https://www.folkradio.co.uk/2020/10/...d-croft-vol-9/

1. Billy's
2. Black Dog
3. Air Chuairt
4. Caravan up North
5. Hunting for Angus
6. Squat Lobster
7. Brutus
8. Trams