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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AlbumsSnowblink – Long Live
Long Live first trickled into view in 2008, extolled by a handful of in-the-loop bloggers and publications as one of the year’s finest albums. Despite ... Read more »| 27 Oct 2010 -
AlbumsThe Thermals – Personal Life
With their tinny, post-punk guitars and fragmented lyrical critiques of bible-belt America, Oregon three-piece The Thermals openly acknowledge their ideologi... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010 -
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How To Swim – Retina (or More Fun Than a Vat of Love)
Glasgow's How To Swim bring us their debut album, Retina (or More Fun Than a Vat of Love), with the promise of crossing as many musical borders as possible. ... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010 -
SinglesTeebs – Why Like This?
Los Angelite Teebs (Mtendere Mandowa) is another protégé of beatsmith Flying Lotus, whose music is released on his burgeoning Brainfeeder impri... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010 -
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Moddi – Rubbles EP
A taster for a forthcoming album, Moddi is Norwegian born and bred Pal Moddi Knutsen who, judging by this EP, has a strong sense of identity with a firm gras... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010 -
Albums
Tapso II – Tapso II
Tapso II are an Italian three-piece with an intuitive awareness of the dynamic possibilities of the power trio: whether via quiet bit/loud bit, fast bit/slow... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010
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AlbumsWeezer – Death To False Metal
Having nerded themselves silly over the past decade, Rivers Cuomo and co take stock of their lengthy career with a bastard collection of material that didn&r... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010 -
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JC Satàn – Sick of Love
When a band appears with a name like JC Satàn I just want to like them; more so when I discover their tunes come wrapped in the kind of feedback swirl... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010 -
Singles
Remember Remember – RR Scorpii
With its twinkling glockenspiels and lazy trumpets there’s a tinge of the twee about new Remember Remember release RR Scorpii, the first release from f... Read more »| 25 Oct 2010 -
Ep
Dan Korn – Dustbowl EP
Opening with the playful title track - well as playful as one can expect from a supposed tribute to the doomed lives of the Joad family in John Steinbeck&rsq... Read more »| 25 Oct 2010 -
Albums
aM – Belong To Galaxy
The array of adjectives offered to describe Japanese electronica duo aM on the press release to their debut album is enjoyable enough on its own. Anyone up f... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
Ep
Iain Shaw – Milk Teeth EP
Milk Teeth is an apt name for this collection as the four songs on offer sound somewhat deciduous, like a prelude for something more permanent and greater to... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
Albums
The Sexual Objects – Cucumber
The Sexual Objects play Freudian games on debut Cucumber. The onanistic connotations of the band/album name combination, along with tracks entitled Full Pene... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
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Sharon Van Etten – Epic
You can’t argue with statistics: if the bland outweighs the good, disappoint beckons. Quality ratios can be kind to the lengthy – an opus like Th... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
Ep
The Gaslamp Killer – Death Gate EP
While psychedelic and Eastern music have all made an impact on hip-hop's sampladelic soundscape in some limited way, few have made the combination sound so n... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010