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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SinglesEddi Reader - Dragonflies
Maybe it’s the uplifting waltz-like jig, the jangling sleigh-bell percussion or the slow-melting vocals, but Eddi Reader’s new single is like a l... Read more »| 23 Nov 2009 -
SinglesEagleowl - Sleep the Winter
A song’s beauty can reside in the slightest of touches, the line separating a graceful composition from a shiver-inducing one sometimes as ephemeral as... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
AlbumsThe Clientele - Bonfires On The Heath
When US tastemakers Pitchfork unveiled their list of the decade’s greatest albums, UK readers would have been excused for quizzically raising e... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
SinglesAnimal Collective - Fall Be Kind
Animal Collective are outstandingly prolific. So reason suggests that after ten years of activity, they have to put out the inevitable clunker, right? Wrong.... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
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Amy Millan - Masters of the Burial
An integral component in the success of Canadian indie heroes Stars and Broken Social Scene, Amy Millan’s mellifluous tones are somewhat exposed on thi... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
Singles
Bad for Lazarus - Old Rats on a New Ship
If anyone among the Brighton psychobilly scene would ever be as purposeful as to assign themselves a modus operandi, you get the sense Rich Fownes' would be ... Read more »| 19 Nov 2009
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Maxwell Panther - Do You Feel Different Yet?
What’s lower than lo-fi? No-fi still sounds daft. Belo-lo-fi? Whatever - when the genre-baptists decide upon a suitable candidate, Maxwell Panther can ... Read more »| 19 Nov 2009 -
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Shield Your Eyes - Shield Em
There is something to be said for bands who put significant effort into making music that doesn’t follow the generic 4/4 verse-chorus-verse structure o... Read more »| 19 Nov 2009 -
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Cosmo Jarvis - HUMASYOUHITCH/SONOFABITCH
Everyone loves to hate a gifted progeny, those savants who are way too successful, way too young. This charge could well be levied at 20 year old multi-instr... Read more »| 18 Nov 2009 -
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BEAK> - BEAK>
Passive readers of certain mainstream music publications may have noticed an increasingly recurring namedrop recently: 1970s krautrock daddies Neu! are cool ... Read more »| 18 Nov 2009 -
Singles
Night Noise Team - Menolick
Pulsing harmonic arpeggios and a propulsive beat launch Night Noise Team’s debut single; a persuasively vibrant introduction to a song that nev... Read more »| 17 Nov 2009 -
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Collapse Under The Empire - Find A Place To Be Safe
Instrumental “post-rock” commanded a great deal of attention and respect during its initial explosion in the early 90s, but what was once... Read more »| 17 Nov 2009 -
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French Wives - Halloween/Dogfight
Creeping into earshot like next door's violin practice, Halloween is a bit of a slow-burner. Taking it's time to simmer from brittle, twinkling folk into chu... Read more »| 16 Nov 2009 -
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Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
What do you get when you cross Led Zep’s John Paul Jones with Jimmy Page worshipper and Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, and Dave Grohl &nd... Read more »| 16 Nov 2009 -
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Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
The notion of lineage looms large for many heavy metal subgenres, and probably none more so than that of stoner doom. Consequently, this debut collaboration ... Read more »| 16 Nov 2009