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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AlbumsPat Jordache – Future Songs
Future Songs was first released as a low-quality, self-mastered cassette last summer. It looked destined to remain in such rough form when Pat Jordache&rsquo... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
AlbumsLe Reno Amps – Appetite
Amongst the more perplexing criticisms to crop up in reviews is ‘X is not life-changing’. How much personal tumult does a listener actually crave... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
AlbumsOrkestra Del Sol – Lung Capacity
There are two ways of setting about summing up Lung Capacity, the latest album from Edinburgh’s brass-steppers extraordinaire. The first would be to fo... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
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Hauschka – Salon des Amateurs
Salon des Amateurs is the latest in a growing collection of releases by risk-taking Düsseldorf-based composer Volker Bertelmann, alias Hauschka – ... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
AlbumsOvO – Cor Cordium
Drifting in the limbo between the percussive sludge of Jucifer and the surreal assault of Fantômas is OvO, an Italian duo who have been conducting audi... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
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Kode9 & The Spaceape – Black Sun
Hyperdub has always been the most experimental and forward-thinking of dubstep labels, and the panache with which Kode9 and Spaceape reinvented and deconstru... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011
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Stranded Horse – Humbling Tides
Yann Tambour – formerly Thee Stranded Horse, now Thee-less – writes and performs on a miniature kora, a kind of African harp/guitar. Throughout H... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
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Panda Bear – Tomboy
Bringing an aural sharpness in contrast to the kaleidoscopic, woozy swirl of 2007’s Person Pitch, Tomboy finds Noah Lennox further straddling the exper... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
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Trembling Bells – The Constant Pageant
While Alex Neilson may be the driving force behind the band, it’s still inevitable that the most arresting thing about any new Trembling Bells album wi... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
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Deadboy – HERE (NMBRS15)
Numbers have had a relentless amount of quality releases in the past 12 months, with Deadboy’s Here EP being no exception. Having provided the label wi... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
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Fight Like Apes – The Body Of Christ And The Legs Of Tina Turner
From the record title alone it’s clear that Ireland’s Fight Like Apes haven’t toned the weirdness down any for their Andy Gill produced sec... Read more »| 29 Mar 2011 -
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Alexander – Alexander
Branching away from his ten-strong Bohemian clan known as the Magnetic Zeros, the debut solo undertaking from Alexander Ebert is an intimate stripped-down af... Read more »| 29 Mar 2011 -
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Metronomy – The English Riviera
Metronomy’s 2008 breakthrough album Nights Out is already starting to sound a little ‘of its time’. Lo-fi recording may have helped it esca... Read more »| 29 Mar 2011 -
AlbumsModdi – Floriography
Floriography has already topped the charts in Pål Moddi Knutsen’s native Norway, which considering the unleavened tone is no mean feat; Damien Ri... Read more »| 28 Mar 2011 -
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Jeniferever – Silesia
Although Jeniferever probably deserve a higher profile, Silesia won’t be the album to swell their fan base. They’ve never exactly redefined the p... Read more »| 28 Mar 2011