The Dykeenies – Clean Up Your Eyes

• 7th Jun 2007

You take out your heart and place it on your sleeve, put Travis on in one ear and The Editors in the other. Then you think about that gal who took your heart off your sleeve and kicked it over the posts for two points. This, it appears, is The Dykeenies’ guide to song construction, if this sauntering snippet is anything to go by?

Having only formed in 2005, the cohesive driving guitars create a light melody skip that cloaks the heartache. Reflection is never going to go out of fashion and these Scots appear to have captured its art-form.