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Music is the life blood of us, the Tag team and you, our readers. It is therefore with great pride and pleasure that we can introduce you to artists who are smashing it in 2023. Skerryvore, Flawes and Cat Clyde have taken time out of their busy schedules, promoting their new material, to talk exclusively to Tag about their influences, songwriting processes and the buzz they get from playing live.

Their music is mastered by Nirvana and U2’s studio engineer and they are firm favourites on BBC Radio 2’s playlist. Skerryvore are an exciting Scottish alt-pop, stadium-folk, rock and dance band, who have recently released their new album, Tempus. The guys caught up with Tag to tell us more.

What made you come up with the album title Tempus and what can we expect from it?

Fraser: We felt each track represented either a period in time, time in our life or a place in time that meant something to us. Essentially the whole album represented time in some shape or form. We decided that TEMPUS, the Latin word for time, had a bit of a cooler sound to it than the English word.

What do you think your most overrated and underrated songs are?

Alec: I’m not sure I’d say we have a specific song that’s overrated because I think it’s important that certain songs mean something to each individual. When you’re creating music you have to write and produce what you believe is great and if it resonates with others then it’s humbling that it also means something to them. On a personal level I think perhaps some of the songs on our World of Chances album were overlooked but could be in part due to how we treated the arrangement at the time and would maybe do differently now.

What are some of your inspirations for your work?

Alec: Inspiration can come from anything