g-plan - all roads lead to this (play)

all roads lead to this is debut album from experimental glasgow music collective g-plan. this is band formed by mikey truswell, steven shade and matt kitchen previous members of bands like chimaera, degrassi and the wolf kafe. at the beginning of 2003 they decided to quit their previous bands so they can concentrate on g-plan and started with playing as support for band slike degrassi, sputniks down astrid, unkle & whitelock and troika as well started recording sessions with brendan o'hare (ex mogwai/teenage fun club, macrocosmica) at the newly built demon studios. their sound is completely glasgow oriented. here i mean glasgow sound of last couple of years that mogwai marked at the end of 90's. and yes g-plans sound is pure early mogwai guitar sound. intense walls of guitar sound, distortion, melodic noise. hypnotic rhythm is building the skeleton to concrete blocks of noise and melody. melancholic vocals are appearing sometimes. its quite symptomatic that this release sound is so similar to mogwai sound, but that's it. whole great britain scene is having difficulties with new music this days (and not just this). anyway its pretty interesting to hear this on moments hard guitar sound on moments calm, melodic and subtle flows, reminding of beautiful moments of mogwai's 'young team' album and end of 90's guitar post rock.