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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AlbumsParquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal
There’s an uneasy cheeriness in the way Andrew Savage utters “I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe” towards the end of Instant Dissassembly’s naggingly repetitious seven minutes, ten songs into Parquet Courts’ addictively disquieting third LP Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
AlbumsAlpha Male Tea Party – Droids
Whoever thought up such a ridiculous genre name as ‘math rock’ anyway? It’s just counting. No sums involved. No challenge, unless you find ... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
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King Buzzo – This Machine Kills Artists
They said it couldn’t happen. They said it shouldn’t… oh, OK. We’re fibbing. Still, after 31 years and 19 Melvins albums, it seems o... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
AlbumsThe Phantom Band – Strange Friend
Three and a half years is a long time to wait for a Phantom Band record. The Wants, a dark, brooding beast, was unleashed on listeners still punch-drunk from... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
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Sage Francis – Copper Gone
Sage Francis returns with a new album on Scroobius Pip's Speech Development, putting paid to the notion that his step back from the constant grind of touring was also the point at which he hung up his mic Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
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PAWS – Youth Culture Forever
PAWS took the brave decision to handle production duties of Youth Culture Forever themselves, a bold move that other groups have lived to regret. But the Gla... Read more »| 27 May 2014
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Howling Bells – Heartstrings
Motherhood has kept Juanita Stein and Howling Bells off the radar these past years and fourth album Heartstrings must surely be a test of their staying ... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
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Hamilton Leithauser – Black Hours
With The Walkmen currently on an “extreme hiatus,” frontman Hamilton Leithauser strikes out alone with solo debut Black Hours. Well, not entirely... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
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The Acid – Liminal
Eleven kinds of loneliness, wrote Yates; here’s eleven tracks of it. Appropriately named threesome The Acid (Ry X, Steve Nalepa, and Adam Freeland) ser... Read more »| 26 May 2014 -
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Emma Ruth Rundle – Some Heavy Ocean
In a similar vein to label-mate Chelsea Wolfe, there's a certain desolation and sparseness to Emma Ruth Rundle's sound that's both mysterious and alluring. T... Read more »| 26 May 2014 -
AlbumsJerry David DeCicca – Understanding Land
The Black Swans are no more, their fifth and final album, 2012’s Occasion For Song, a frank meditation on the loss of band member Noel Sayre. Sayre was... Read more »| 26 May 2014 -
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The Hazey Janes – Language of Faint Theory
For their fourth album, Dundee’s The Hazey Janes returned to El Puerto De Santa Maria – the small Andalusian city where they’d recorded deb... Read more »| 26 May 2014 -
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Sleep Party People – Floating
Somnambulant dreampop project Sleep Party People is the tincture of one Brian Batz, a rabbit-masked Dane with a knack for crafting layered, shoegaze lullabye... Read more »| 26 May 2014 -
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Fis – Iterations EP
New Zealand producer Fis moves even further away from the drum and bass genre that birthed him - since he signed to Tri-Angle, he has been exploring far stranger sonic realms Read more »| 24 May 2014 -
AlbumsHamell On Trial – The Happiest Man In The World
Difficult to know what to make of Ed Hamell. He’s an intelligent and articulate singer-songwriter, at something of a rarely-considered midpoint between... Read more »| 24 May 2014