Shambolics

Following a brief, early-career dabble with hazy, jangly dream pop, the album-charting iteration of Scottish indie rockers Shambolics are a more muscular and polished -- but no less quirky -- outfit. Core members, songwriters, guitarists, and dual lead vocalists Lewis McDonald and Darren Forbes, spent many evenings as teenagers in Kirkcaldy, Fife's Ravenscraig Park, drinking and making plans to form a band. They were introduced by bassist Jordan McHatton, a school friend of McDonald, but it wasn't until 2015 -- when each member was in his twenties -- that Shambolics were for...