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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AlbumsMark Lanegan – Gargoyle
At first you might think Lanegan’s tenth solo album, Gargoyle, picks up where 2014’s Phantom Radio left off. You can hear the dark influence... Read more »| 25 Apr 2017 -
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DJ Format & Abdominal – Still Hungry
DJ Format and Abdominal are back – not that they’ve really been away, they’ve just been busy with their own things – and, as the titl... Read more »| 24 Apr 2017 -
AlbumsAndrew Wasylyk – Themes For Buildings and Spaces
If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, then who knows what music that's written about architecture is comparable to. Either way, this ser... Read more »| 24 Apr 2017 -
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ULTRAS – ULTRAS
The new solo project of Gav Prentice from Glasgow cult heroes Over the Wall, ULTRAS combines folk singer-songwriting with electronic, hip-hop influ... Read more »| 24 Apr 2017 -
AlbumsBabe – Kiss & Tell
While Babe's 2014 debut, Volery Flighty, walked a varied path – pieced together over time, saturated with instruments and influences –&... Read more »| 24 Apr 2017 -
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Sylvan Esso – What Now
Following three years of bouncing between sold-out shows, Sylvan Esso's second album What Now reckons with the popularity, and ensuing normalisation, of... Read more »| 24 Apr 2017
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Feist – Pleasure
So this is what we get after six years away. Juno Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter Leslie Feist’s long-awaited fifth LP Pleasure continues the ... Read more »| 24 Apr 2017 -
AlbumsDominic Waxing Lyrical – Rural Tonic
The name Rural Tonic calls to mind two things. The first: a gentile spa retreat – maybe you’ve gone to the Lakes and just logged off, yknow?... Read more »| 19 Apr 2017 -
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Jess Morgan – Edison Gloriette
Upon first hearing Jess Morgan back in 2013, this writer was totally won over by the quality of her storytelling and her spikey, claw-hammer guitar style. Sh... Read more »| 19 Apr 2017 -
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BNQT – Volume 1
BNQT is an indie super-group made up of members of Midlake, along with the frontmen from Band of Horses, Franz Ferdinand, Grandaddy and Travis. Taken se... Read more »| 19 Apr 2017 -
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Maxïmo Park – Risk to Exist
The Geordie stalwarts return to make sense of turbulent times with their sixth LP Read more »| 19 Apr 2017 -
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Lee Southall – Iron In The Fire
Enough time has passed now to consider that maybe the noughties didn't herald the great guitar-band revival we thought they did at the time, and that, in fac... Read more »| 19 Apr 2017 -
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Joe Goddard – Electric Lines
As a member of both Hot Chip and The 2 Bears, and as a multi-faceted musician involved in production, songwriting and DJing, Joe Goddard has earned his music... Read more »| 18 Apr 2017 -
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WHITE – One Night Stand Forever
The debut album from Glasgow five-piece WHITE, One Night Stand Forever (not to be confused with the Ed Ruscha painting of the same name) is a raucous riot of... Read more »| 18 Apr 2017 -
AlbumsGallops – Bronze Mystic
The Wrexham post-rockers are back from the dead with an armful of synths and the same punishing guitars Read more »| 18 Apr 2017