GLASGOW indie rockers This Silent Forest got rave reviews for their debut album - and were left wishing someone had given them a critical kicking.

The group released Indivision last year, and it was hailed by many critics for its anthemic sound that called to mind bands such as The National.

Yet singer Graeme Macdonald was hoping for a harsher response...

"We had some good reviews of the album, although I wanted a really negative one," he says, speaking ahead of a gig at King Tut's tonight.

"They are normally great to read so I wanted one for us. But some people seemed to like it, and we were happy with that."

Now the band - Graeme on vocals, guitarist Jamie Sturt, bassist JJ McGowan and drummer Ewan McDonald - are already thinking of a second record, and are aiming to release it later in 2014 if they can secure enough funding.

Graeme, who is originally from near Glenshee but has lived in Glasgow for several years, set up the band with Jamie and a revolving array of other musicians.

But he says: "When we got JJ and Ewan everything we were writing became more organic and more professional.

"When we heard them talking about the album after hearing the first mix we realised they had a clear concept of the band, and the line-up is set in stone now.

"The new stuff we are writing is coming together as a group, rather than just me writing it all."

The band isn't just thinking musically, though. They have been heavily involved in filming videos to promote their music, with the group shooting a short film for their Drowning Man song.

Using film to promote the band is something that Graeme feels was a natural fit.

"I love film, and I love editing, so we thought we'd do these mini videos, about 30 seconds long, with some of the key parts of the tracks on there," he says.

"Then we released Drowning Man, and we wanted a video for it that had some personality, not one that was just 'we are a band, with some lights behind us, playing in a house'.

"I hate videos like that - unless you are all beautiful men, bands shouldn't do that. If you are creative enough to write an album you should be able to do a creative video too."

While the band has already been compared to the likes of Snow Patrol, it's a lesser-known Scottish act that Graeme cites as his chief inspiration as a frontman.

"The guy from Meursault, Neil Pennycook, is amazing - I did the sound for him once, and he was brilliant," says Graeme.

"I was involved with Slow Club [a regular acoustic night at Bloc in Bath Street], and you would have plenty of acts who couldn't sing loudly - they could speak louder than they could actually sing.

"That infuriated me, and having someone who could project their voice across the room without putting any effort into it is brilliant to hear."

After tonight's Tut's appearance the group are hoping to make headway, even if Graeme feels they don't quite fit into the local music scene.

"We do get ignored by some of the scenes in Glasgow, but I'm alright with that," he says.

"If anyone was to look at bands on the inside of those scenes, nothing ever happens for them. It's like T Break [T In The Park's new bands initiative] - look at the bands playing there 10 years ago and none of them exist anymore.

"I was sitting with Scott from Frightened Rabbit one night, and moaning about it, and he mentioned they'd had the same things early on. They had their own little space and developed."

Should the music career not pan out, however, then Graeme has a possible back-up - as he's been mistaken for a variety of celebrities.

"Someone came up to me at a gig and thought I was Sam McTrusty from Twin Atlantic," he recalls. "I just laughed, and thought someone had put them up to it, but they were serious. I've also had Zac Efron from a few folk, which I'll take.

"One of my friend's dads reckons I look more like Jack Black though. I wasn't so happy about that one..."

This Silent Forest, King Tut's, tonight, £6, 8.30pm. More information at thissilentforest.com