Clachan Dubh by Dragged Up

Available as B-side to 'Blake's Tape' from: https://rarevitaminrecords.bandcamp.com/album/blakes-tape
and on ltd tour-edition cassette/CD at live shows

"Riding a relentless wave of restless creativity and blessed with a punishing knack for chaos and groove, Glasgow art-punks Dragged Up return.. B’side Clachan Dubh dials up the intensity, its pounding guitar attack fighting furiously against duelling vocals dripping with attitude. Every Dragged Up release is a huge deal around these parts, and this might just be my favourite yet." Fran Carlyon, Heavy Metal Kids
https://heavymetalkids.music.blog/2025/06/23/dragged-up-blakes-tape/

"Clachan Dubh sees Dragged Up deliver the kind of slacker anthem made for road trips. And speaking of, the band finds itself on one (well, of sorts), in, you guessed it, a Clachan Dubh. The protagonist, moving through the history of the village with a story that oscillates between the past and present. It’s Dragged Up as sharp as ever, with a song that beasts most other B-sides in the realms of modern day indie-rock." - Simon Kirk, Sun 13

"Clachan Dubh’ is a fast-paced, high-energy blast of fizzy guitars and blissfully loose interswitching vocals, and again it’s a collision of Pavement and The Fall plus all the scuzzy indue acts you’d read about in NME and Melody Maker in the early 90s. It’s less a case of them sounding like this band or that band, and more about the way they distil these various zetigeists and amalgamate them into a magnificent alt-rock hybrid which sounds like so much that’s gone before, and at the same time completely unique." - Christopher Nosnibor. Aural Aggravation
https://auralaggravation.com/2025/06/16/dragged-up-blakes-tape-clachan-dubh/

"..this is a lot more of a direct approach that takes its cues from 90's Riot Grrrl as well as shades of Dinosaur Jr/Pavement what with the fuzzed out slacker vibes. There's even a little bit of Siouxsie Sioux in the Vocal department and the Banshees when they were knocking out rawer tracks such as 'Make Up To Break Up'." Reza Mills, Clean Sheets
https://rezamills.wixsite.com/clean-sheets-reviews/post/dragged-up-blake-s-tape---clachan-dubh

"Glasgow art-punks riding a relentless wave of restless creativity and blessed with a punishing knack for chaos and groove"
- Heavy Metal Kids

'Maybe your new favourite Velvets / Black Sabbath / Crass inspired group, ok? Another one of those groups you think you’ve got the gist on before they turn on a dime & dive into a different pool of sound'
- Monorail Music

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