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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Singles
(+44) - Lycanthrope (Polydor)
The fart jokes have gone and just maybe there's a hint of Alkaline Trio in the mix. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
SinglesOk Go - Here It Goes Again
Full of enormous hooks and tenacious choruses mixed with mock English accents. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
AlbumsDie! Die! Die! - Die! Die! Die!
Searing art-rock with occasional quiet moments, juxtaposed with frenetic punk blasts and crazed screeches. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Singles
Tapes 'n Tapes - Omaha
...distinct final-single-from-an-album kind of feel... Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Singles
Less Than Jake - P.S. Shock The World
The chorus protrudes from the middle of the track like some hideous flesh wound. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Ep
Kiddo - 135 Days EP
Kiddo create their own sound, built up from the dilettantish rhythms that seep into the lead guitar lines. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006
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Singles
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - War Of The Worlds
sounds good for a while, then it just dies on itself. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Albums
Susurrus Station - 1,2 Unbuckle the Blue
Walks a tightrope between the obliquely poetic and the plain pretentious Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Albums
Yourcodenameis:milo - Print Is Dead Vol. 1
The results are often shocking. The Trapeze Artist is brutal and comes with chopped, heavy riffing and manic wails, yet features The Automatic. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Albums
Puerto Muerto - Songs Of Muerto County Relived
Hauntingly beautiful at times, melancholic at others, Puerto Muerto is soporose and quixotic all at once. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
EpTwilight Singers - A Stitch in Time EP
testimony to the fact that Twilight Singers specialise in providing drowsy narcoleptic acid jazz and straight up euphoric adrenaline shots to the heart Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Singles
Rose Kemp - Violence
This juxtaposition of pain with beauty, and discomfort with warmth makes these songs a delight to behold Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Singles
Peaches - Boys Wanna Be Her
a hard-hitting, repetitive drone Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Singles
Mastodon - The Wolf is Loose
Having been brought up as a metalhead before veering off to listen to more experimental music, people often recommend bands that they think will fulfil the c... Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
SinglesTunng - It's Because... We've Got Hair
Tunng's ability to make even a glitch solo sound like a long entrenched part of the folk tradition is a continued joy that no catchy chorus can diminish. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006