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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AlbumsMy Little Cheap Dictaphone – The Tragic Tale Of A Genius
My Little Cheap Dictaphone might rank among the naffest band names you'll hear all year, but thankfully their music fares better. The group is the brainchild... Read more »| 03 Nov 2010 -
AlbumsWinnebago Deal – Career Suicide
To avoid confusion, I would like to point out that this third full length LP entitled Career Suicide is by punk rock 'n' roll duo Winnebago Deal; not the arg... Read more »| 03 Nov 2010 -
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Motorifik – Secret Things
It’s always a disappointment when a band call themselves something like Motorifik, the very syllables of which drip with dirty oil, sweaty leather and ... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
AlbumsShipping News – One Less Heartless To Fear
As the band themselves declare, "one helluva lot has happened" to Shipping News since their terrific 2005 album Flies The Field. With founder guitarist Jason... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
AlbumsShugo Tokumaru – Port Entropy
Live, Shugo Tokumaru plies his trade with little more than an acoustic guitar and an effects pedal or two. It’s near impossible to imagine Port Entropy... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
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Earth – A Bureaucratic Desire For Extracapsular Extraction
This almighty bastard of an album represents the collation of Earth's two early EPs and comes resplendent with that same sense of chilling, north-western nih... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010
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King Cannibal – The Way of the Ninja
A back catalogue 20 years old is fertile ground for someone tasked with assembling a retrospective; given Ninja Tune’s history as an innovator in recor... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
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6 Day Riot – On This Island
6 Day Riot do not sound like the kind of clan that would partake on such a lengthy riotous off-the-chain bender as their moniker suggests. On the con... Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
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Yusuf Azak – Turn On the Long Wire
Yusuf Azak is a singer-songwriter without peer, thanks to a voice that proudly earns the epithet ‘acquired taste’. With each encounter, either in... Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
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Various – 45 A-Side Records Presents The Glad Cafe
While Glasgow’s hardly starved for venues, those living south of the Clyde are generally underserved. Opening in early 2011, the Glad Cafe aims to rect... Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
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Young Hunting – Attachment in a Child and the Subsequent Condition
If, as some suggest, the very idea of the album is currently facing an existential threat, nobody told Edinburgh’s Young Hunting. Attachment in a Child... Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
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The Flowers of Hell – O
The Flowers of Hell aren’t a band in the typical sense, their assemblage more akin to that of an orchestra. Greg Jarvis assembles a revolving line-up o... Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
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Be A Familiar – To The Lighthouse
Employing a seven member line-up, with keys and brass included, Glasgow seven-piece Be a Familiar’s aesthetics hint at the multifarious instrumentation... Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
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Former Ghosts – New Love
Have you ever seen a caffeinated spider spin a web? Imagine the same effect when giving Emeralds crack – a rumbling beat you'd associate with Tearist (... Read more »| 29 Oct 2010 -
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Elliott Smith – An Introduction to...
Following on from A Basement On The Hill and New Moon, this is Smith’s third outing from beyond the grave, and terming this lucky-dip cluster of songs ... Read more »| 29 Oct 2010