You take art and you add music. It's been done before, of course, but sometimes - and only sometimes - do you get the synergy that generates the magical musical madness that speaks from the shadows. Such a synergy occurred when Louise McVey's (you might have encountered her as a solo act or as part of Hamper) soulful resonance met with the bitter and twisted guitar of Graeme Miller.

Gathering together like minded spirits (Gordon Macpherson, Garry Freckleton, Jimmy O'Donnell and Kathy Boyd), Louise and Graeme set about creating the kind of sonic landscape that have a natural home in candlelit basements and cellars. The torch singer lives again in Glasgow and a man's soul is no longer safe.

If you've been listening to the airwaves or the ones and zeroes of the Internet the you might have heard them on the Glasgow Podcart, Subcity Radio, Celtic Music Radio and on Vic Galloway's show.

"Then there's a voice. The voice of a siren calling men to their doom. The songs she sings evoke elemental forces crashing around you like waves in a storm. The saddest, angriest guitar you have heard cuts those songs up with total precision - not so much a musical instrument as a weapon" - Bluesbunny Music Reviews

You can find out more about Louise McVey and Cracks in the Concrete on their Myspace page.