No Laughing Matter

Humour's debut album cements their place in Scotland's music scene

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DIG beneath the squalling guitars and frontman Andreas Christodoulidis's throat-wrenching roar and Humour might just teach you something.

The hard rock quintet - a group of Glasgow flatmates, veterans of various local bands who began making music together during the pandemic - release debut album Learning Greek this month on So Young Records, a London-based independent label.

It's a beast of a record, pulling together some ambitious ideas.

Andreas, whose dad is Greek, had begun learning the language, and his lyrics draw from Greek literature and mythology, along with stories from his father and grandfather's lives under the military dictatorship that ran the country during the late 60s and early 70s.

Sure, it sounds like a lot to ask of the casual listener, but the band assure me that it's really not that serious.