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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EpYusaf Azak – Prizefighter EP
Having previously released an album with locally respected Edinburgh based label Song, by Toad, Yusaf Azak has chosen to release this EP on his lonesome thro... Read more »| 25 Oct 2011 -
AlbumsMarble Valley – Breakthrough
Having ex-Pavement and Silver Jews drummer Steve West at the helm has consistently led globe-spanning collective Marble Valley towards the slacker cool of hi... Read more »| 25 Oct 2011 -
AlbumsLou Reed & Metallica – Lulu
A collaboration between Velvet Underground founder Lou Reed and thrash pioneers Metallica is indeed as bizarre as it sounds. Read: Lulu is a 90 minute concep... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011 -
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Sandro Perri – Impossible Spaces
Sandro Perri – best known for his work under the Polmo Polpo moniker – combines relaxing, intimate folk and long, meandering instrumental section... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011 -
AlbumsSonic Youth – Hits Are For Squares
Hits Are For Squares sees a gallery of pop culture's most credible Generation X-ers chipping in with their nomination for Sonic Youth's most killer anti-cla... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011 -
AlbumsTom Waits – Bad As Me
Tom Waits' music does what all great art should, it creates worlds. His is a universe as vivid and colourful as any film despite the fact they’re birth... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011
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Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – Cruel Summer EP
To coincide with what Aidan Moffat calls his ‘first proper tour in five years’ the former Arab Strap raconteur and current collaborator Bill Well... Read more »| 19 Oct 2011 -
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Noel Gallagher spoke recently of the follow up to his first solo album, promising an experimental collaboration with FSOL's psychedelic arm, Amorphous Androg... Read more »| 19 Oct 2011 -
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Justice – Audio, Video, Disco
The four years taken to produce a follow-up to 2007’s † inevitably raises suspicions that Justice have been experiencing Difficult Sec... Read more »| 18 Oct 2011 -
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Damu – Unity
Unity is one of the more counter-intuitive off-shoots of UK bass music's amorphous, lexically-challenged evolution. Almost completely cleaved... Read more »| 17 Oct 2011 -
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aCivilian – Invention
Given that Phil Critten’s persona seemingly hovers somewhere between Mother Theresa and a Norfolkian Jack Kerouac, it’s little wonder that his ... Read more »| 17 Oct 2011 -
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Pettybone – From Desperate Times Comes Radical Minds
The all-female punk combo is hardly an untried concept but what Pettybone bring to the table is a sense of righteous conviction that the likes of The Donna... Read more »| 11 Oct 2011 -
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Morkobot – Morbo
There’s no doubt about it, Italian label Supernatural Cat are out to eradicate all traces of rationale in music. Mere months after melting senses with ... Read more »| 05 Oct 2011 -
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Charalambides – Exile
As the bumper stickers say: Texas does it best. Maybe it’s the sweltering desert heat or just something in the air but they certainly have a knack for ... Read more »| 05 Oct 2011 -
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Various – Fac. Dance: Factory Records 12" Mixes & Rarities, 1980-87
It’s hard to believe that another compilation of genuine interest can be wrung from the Factory stable, such has been the level of interest in the labe... Read more »| 05 Oct 2011