Blessed to have Murray Macleod on the podcast today, singer, guitarist and songwriter supreme in British alternative rock champs The Xcerts.

The Aberdeen trio are a band I liked from the get go, until 2014 and the release of their third record, There is Only You, whereupon they became a band I absolutely and completely adored. That’s a trajectory I think not unusual for many rock fans, but man oh man, the songs so far released from the group’s coming fifth album, Learning How To Live And Let Go – out August 18th – have caused a right old stink on the digital swamp that is Twitter! I thought it was time I reached out to Murray and get him on the podcast. What follows is one of my favourite conversations I’ve had on the show in ages; in many ways I see it as a sister conversation to the one I had with Dan Searle from Architects on Episode 143 back in March. 

Murray gets it, he really does. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did making it. 

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