Alasdair Roberts, Alex Neilson, Stevie Jones

With new album Pangs, Alasdair, Stevie and Alex have created a warm embrace of an album with quietly radical songs, rooted in the landscape of Scotland as much as in its musical history. Roberts' writing addresses a typically broad and esoteric range of themes - prayer and faith, childlessness and fatherhood, childhood and ageing and, with relentless inevitability, love.

The thread of spiritual quest which has come to characterise Alasdair's work is most definitely to the fore in his most recent material.

Support comes from Stevie Jones' acclaimed project Sound of Yell.