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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AlbumsNew York Dolls - 'Cause I Sez So
It’s worth noting how unlikely it was that this album would ever exist in the first place. After a mammoth 27-year hiatus, the New York Dolls returned ... Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
AlbumsBlue Roses - Blue Roses
Within its first few opening seconds, Blue Roses’ debut is leaping about the place like Kate Bush in the video for Wuthering Heights. The Bush comparis... Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
AlbumsWilliam Orbit - My Oracle Lives Uptown
William Orbit should need no introduction, but here goes: an old-school ambient producer from the infancy of the genre (probably before you were born), he th... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
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Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
Billed as a reprisal of their darkest period’s austerity, right down to the repulsive artwork, the Manics Street Preachers’ ninth album pokes ope... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
AlbumsWooden Shjips - Dos
Man, oh man. This album should be good. It looks cool. The guys playing the music look cool. The name is suitably non-committal to suggest they don't crave a... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
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The Show is the Rainbow - Wet Fist
Initially coming across as some strain of novelty act, The Show is the Rainbow’s sophomore album contains many moments of musical brilliance. This one-... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009
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Sileni - Riders On The Conquering Worm
Arriving in a none-more-black casing and featuring only an enigmatic postcard of an alien along with the barest details of personnel, Sileni’s debut fu... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
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Isis - Wavering Radiant
Post-metal seems to spend a lot of time trying to undo Fred Durst as a musical proposition and prove once again that metal can be an intellectual entity, rat... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
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Gallows - Grey Britain
After a sinister opening gambit, Gallows get down to growling with a little more political venom than we've been accustomed to from the Herts quintet. Harnes... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
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Cryptacize - Mythomania
Judging by the connotations attached to both band and album names – mystery, inscrutability, fabling enigma - it seems Cryptacize (whose line-up includ... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
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The Horrors – Primary Colours
Evidently tiring of the black-fringed cartoon band they had become in the wake of the B-movie pastiche of Strange House, The Horrors shift focus to the music... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
AlbumsJapanther - Tut Tut Now Shake Ya Butt
Ah, Brooklyn - home to fabulous-looking art-school-frequenting 19-year-olds with crazy haircuts who party all the time to a jumping live scene, and have way ... Read more »| 22 Apr 2009 -
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The Enemy - Music for the People
The stomping opener to Music For The People, and the muffled screeching that proceeds it, could suggest that Coventry’s self-declared finest have stumb... Read more »| 22 Apr 2009 -
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Propagandhi - Supporting Caste
Imagine if there were actually castes in music - because of sins performed in previous lives, your musical destiny would be pre-ordained; you'd be locked int... Read more »| 22 Apr 2009 -
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Golden Silvers - True Romance Album Review
What would it sound like if The Libertines were sent into the Earth’s atmosphere in a spaceship to record their comeback album with no guitars and only... Read more »| 22 Apr 2009