Reviews
Album, EP and single reviews from The Skinny. Find reviews of the biggest new releases, as well as new records from up-and-coming new artists from across Scotland, the UK and beyond.
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Albums
The Tall Ships – On Tariffs and Discovery
The Tall Ships sophomore album sees the US three-piece continue to hone their indie-art-rock compositions with explorative arrangements and understated produ... Read more »| 24 Jan 2011 -
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Emily Jane White – Ode To Sentience
Releasing her third album in as many years, Californian Emily Jane White’s prolific nature is matched only by her strict adherence to the purist folk c... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011 -
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Chapel Club – Palace
On their debut, London-based five-piece Chapel Club offer up a remarkably accomplished take on the kind of stadium rock-meets-Joy Division sound familiar to ... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011 -
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The Tenebrous Liar – Run Run Run
Anyone who remembers with faint disappointment when the White Stripes and their ilk were the ‘saviours of rock and roll’ would do well to have a ... Read more »| 20 Jan 2011 -
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James Blake – James Blake
Having wowed audiences last year with a trio of acclaimed EPs, here Londoner James Blake expands his imaginative soul hybrid over eleven full tracks, and lau... Read more »| 20 Jan 2011 -
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The Dirtbombs – Party Store
Whereas Party Store’s predecessor set out to bring new life to the soul classics of the 70s, the Dirtbombs’ latest favours the seminal Detroit te... Read more »| 20 Jan 2011
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The Chemistry Set – This Day Will Never Happen Again
The Chemistry Set were a band who were all-too-often overlooked, emerging from the late 80s British neo-psychedelia scene with a sound that owed as much to E... Read more »| 19 Jan 2011 -
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Deerhoof – Vs Evil
Deerhoof are a band of well-established contradictions, not just in terms of their skillful ability to combine leftfield musical experimentation with a solid... Read more »| 19 Jan 2011 -
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Sore Eros – Know Touching
There’s something altogether endearing about Know Touching; a lo-fi, pretty sort of mess by Connecticut’s Sore Eros. Opener Shake The Walls brist... Read more »| 12 Jan 2011 -
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Seefeel – Seefeel
The release of this eponymous self-titled album from abstract electronic experimentalists Seefeel may represent their first in over fourteen years, but the r... Read more »| 11 Jan 2011 -
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The Seventeenth Century – The Seventeenth Century (Part 1) EP
The first in a series of two introductory EPs, The Seventeenth Century are a band of young folkies with a taste for the grandiose. Mixing 4-part vocal harmon... Read more »| 10 Jan 2011 -
Singles
The Dirty Dozen – January 2011
Just hours before taking the stage to perform their seminal 100 Broken Windows, Idlewild’s Rod Jones takes the January singles to task Read more »| 07 Jan 2011 -
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Alain Weber – Hoover Cover
Hoover Cover is Swiss composer Alain Weber’s attempt to soundtrack the bleakest scene in everyone’s life, that moment where hope is just the fain... Read more »| 06 Jan 2011 -
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The Whigs – In The Dark
The Whigs have been nothing if not consistent on their two albums to date; turning out amped-up power-rock with their fists in the air like it never fell out... Read more »| 06 Jan 2011 -
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Joan As Police Woman – The Deep Field
Following on from 2008’s emotionally super-weighty ode to her recently passed mother, To Survive, NYC’s Joan Wasser returns with her third album.... Read more »| 05 Jan 2011