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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AlbumsJohann Johannsson - IBM 1401, a User's Manual
It is actually the interpretation of the electromagnetic waves emitted by this archaic IBM when placed beside a radio transmitter... Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
AlbumsBeirut - Gulag Orkestar
With the world intent on imploding, the haven of Beirut seems the most comforting place to be. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Halfway - Remember The River
Meanders along quite calmly - there's barely a ripple, let alone a wave, to trouble your stream of consciousness. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Broadcast - The Future Crayon
Versatile to the point of almost breaking Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Singles
The Black Keys - Your Touch
The baddest and best it's sounded since Cream Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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RedCarsGoFaster - 24 Passes / House of Flies
24 Passes is never far away from Joy Division's Glass, jazzed up with a little rock-disco. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006
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SinglesJohann Johannsson - The Sun's Gone Dim and the Sky's Turned Black
Delightful, and a perfect example of fusing classical music with avant-electronics.
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AlbumsThe Drones - Gala Mill
Good haunting dust bowl rock for those days spent sitting on a log swigging whiskey and drinking beans out of the can.
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The Aquarium - The Aquarium
It's nice to hear a band who are arty without being po-faced about it.
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Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red Sun
Swelling, never ending guitar crescendos and trance inducing war drums. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Dead Meadow - Dead Meadow
Every party needs a hallucinatory hippy album to finish things off mellow, and Dead Meadow might be just the come-down. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Cortez - Too Orangey For Crows
Though perhaps not earth-shifting, 'Too Orangey For Crows' is too good for anonymity. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - So Divided
All that's missing is a poetic ramble about Texas radio and the big beat. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Mogwai - Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait OST
On record it sounds no less haunting Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
SinglesSubtle - The Mercury Craze
A pulsating chrome-coated beat ushers fictional hiphop protagonist Hour Hero Yes through the door of this, the latest abstract from Subtle's modern day 'Tomm... Read more »| 12 Nov 2006