#kinbrae

Kinbrae, Memory Loop #3, (CD, Digital album), 2024

Cryptophasia is a language shared by twins that only they can understand.  On the new album of the same name, twin brothers Andy & Mike Truscott (popularly known as Kinbrae) use music to reflect their decades-long relationship.  This is the first full-length LP from Kinbrae since Birl of Unmap, their 2022 collaboration with Clare Archibald; their sound has grown subtler, but the beauty remains…

Kinbrae & Clare Archibald ~ Birl Of Unmap

Lost villages, abandoned workings, hidden gardens – things you might find on an unmap. The places in-between, transient, neither one thing or another. Places that you might discover by accident or walk past without knowing what is behind the hedgerow. These have fascinated artists, musicians, and writers for years, being a staple of children’s literature and more recently inspiring albums like…

Fieldhead, Kinbrae at Glad Café 25/2/18

The cosy, chai-wafting interiors of the Glad Café are just what’s needed on one of the coldest days of the year so far, but tonight’s gig isn’t here to offer comfort so much as recalibrate your sense of time, space and perception. First to the stage are brothers Andy and Mike Truscott of Kinbrae, who conjure the atmospheric Isle of Coll with a selection of mesmerising cuts from 2016’s Tidal…

Kinbrae – Tidal Patterns [1631]

On Kinbrae’s website, you can listen to a sound map of Coll, the island which inspired the band’s new album, Tidal Patterns. Clicking an array of map pins reveals field recordings from the island: the slushy trickling of Lonban stream, the drone of a ferry; contact mics pick up the sound of whirring wind, the rusty clinking of a fence. Tidal Patterns itself is a psychogeographic landscape of…