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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AlbumsField Music – Commontime
Sunderland’s own brotherly writing duo, Peter and David Brewis, have been at it again. Their first release since 2012’s Mercury Prize nominated P... Read more »| 26 Jan 2016 -
AlbumsBloc Party – Hymns
It's hard to know where to start with the 2015 version of Bloc Party. A far cry from the band that crafted one of this generation's finest debut records in S... Read more »| 25 Jan 2016 -
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New Albums This Week: De Rosa, Tortoise & more
The week's best new records – De Rosa, Tortoise & more Read more »| 22 Jan 2016 -
AlbumsWorking For A Nuclear Free City – What Do People Do All Day?
An unwieldy moniker they may have, but Manchester’s WFANFC have always peddled a neat line in intelligent indie pop, not afraid to bounce around a litt... Read more »| 22 Jan 2016 -
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New Albums This Week (15 Jan): Daughter & more
The best new music this week, featuring albums from returning 4AD stalwarts Daughter, Manchester-based producer Howes, homespun folkie Songs For Walter and more Read more »| 15 Jan 2016 -
AlbumsPresident Sweetheart – I Play My Shadow
Lost and found and looking back; the first outing for President Sweetheart, the latest vehicle for (Neil Halstead collaborator) Nick Holton and friend/foil T... Read more »| 13 Jan 2016
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David Bowie – Blackstar
None of us knew that Blackstar was to be the epitaph. Objectively speaking, Monday morning’s desperately sad news shouldn’t impact upon... Read more »| 12 Jan 2016 -
AlbumsSaul Williams – MartyrLoserKing
2015 was the year hip-hop grew up… again. But ever since 2001’s Amethyst Rock Star (even five years prior, during his time as a slam poet of som... Read more »| 12 Jan 2016 -
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Cross Record – Wabi-Sabi
Two years ago, husband and wife team Dan Duszynski and Emily Cross, otherwise known as Cross Record, decamped to rural Texas, where Cross, emboldened by the ... Read more »| 12 Jan 2016 -
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MONEY – Suicide Songs
2013's The Shadow of Heaven saw MONEY become a worthy addition to Manchester’s rich bloodline of musical mavericks. Bewitching melodies, lyrical dexter... Read more »| 12 Jan 2016 -
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The Altered Hours – In Heat Not Sorry
Debut albums, however raw (and sometimes that’s very raw indeed) are as much about future promise as the here and now. Take Irish five-piece The Altere... Read more »| 11 Jan 2016 -
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Tortoise – The Catastrophist
Listening from record to record, you’d barely notice most changes in Tortoise’s oeuvre – there’s nothing here quite so forcefull... Read more »| 07 Jan 2016 -
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Eleanor Friedberger – New View
Recorded in a converted barn studio near her new home in upstate New York, former Fiery Furnaces frontwoman Eleanor Friedburger’s third solo record is ... Read more »| 07 Jan 2016 -
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PAUW – Macrocosm Microcosm
Accomplished and playful, the Dutch quartet's debut is a likeable slice of psychedelia. But that's only half the story. While scene leaders Tame Impala ... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
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Daughter – Not to Disappear
If Daughter's debut had you label the London trio as de rigueur indie alt-folk, think again: Not to Disappear sets their tender, haunted shadowplay... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016