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The Snuts (Official Charts Company/PA) Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Scottish indie rockers The Snuts have scored a number one with their debut album WL. The four-piece, from Whitburn in West Lothian, denied US pop star Demi Lovato the crown after a closely-fought race this week. Fronted by 26-year-old singer and guitarist Jack Cochrane, The Snuts also become the first Scottish band in 14 years to enter at number o...

‘It’s old school and it’s beautiful’ – The Snuts celebrate chart success Scottish indie rockers The Snuts have scored a number one with their debut album WL. The four-piece, from Whitburn in West Lothian, denied US pop star Demi Lovato the crown after a closely-fought race this week. Fronted by 26-year-old singer and guitarist Jack Cochrane, The Snuts also become the first Scottish band in 14 years to enter at number one with their debut, since The View’s Hats Off To The Buskers in 2007. Titled WL, the album pays tribute to the Whitburn Loopy, the trouble-makers and youths...

The Snuts: Whitburn indie rockers say chart-smashing debut album was a decade in the making © West Lothian indie rockers The Snuts. Picture: Gaz Williamson. The four-piece from Whitburn spent more than a decade building up devoted fanbase through constant gigging – and now they are finally reaping the benefits. While owing a considerable debt to indie darlings The Libertines and Arctic Monkeys, The Snuts' debut album, WL, takes the template and runs with it. Frontman Jack Cochrane says the record is his band’s “life’s work”, as the other three members – guitarist Joe McGillveray...