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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Albums...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – Lost Songs
Coming with an overtly political manifesto, Trail of Dead’s eighth studio album Lost Songs fittingly stands as their most direct statement in some time... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
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Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind
With so much made of “tricky” second and third albums, not many platitudes exist to explain the challenge faced by those bands with the gumpt... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
AlbumsRozi Plain – Joined Sometimes Unjoined
Where Rozi Plain’s debut Inside Over Here was pieced together from various home recordings, the creation of Joined Sometimes Unjoined involved a full b... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
AlbumsLukid – Lonely at the Top
Although previous Lukid records have always been beautifully complex and intricate, they have also been fairly easy to place within contemporary electroni... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
SinglesThe Dirty Dozen – October 2012
Recovering at his Edinburgh home from a nasty chest infection, Dan ‘Withered Hand’ Willson dutifully bunkers down to the healing sounds of October’s single releases Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
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Bat for Lashes – The Haunted Man
The biggest difference between The Haunted Man and 2009's Two Suns is in the presentation – gone are the intricate, ornate, quasi-mystical visual trapp... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012
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WHY? – Mumps, etc.
Alopecia and Eskimo Snow saw WHY? distance themselves from the hip-hop template that defined their earlier albums as Yoni Wolf’s neurotic drawl playe... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
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PAWS – Cokefloat!
Recorded on a boat moored on the Thames, it's easy to imagine that this much-anticipated debut album from garage pop rockers PAWS could have sunk under the... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
AlbumsGav Prentice – The Invisible Hand
You can appreciate why Over the Wall’s Gav Prentice felt the need to release these songs under his own name, as opposed to incorporating them into th... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
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Errors – New Relics
For a band whose last LP has largely come to be considered their most accomplished to date, it’s no wonder that Errors have, with this mini album relea... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
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We Are the Physics – Your Friend, The Atom
There's always been a touch of crazy to Scotland's most lauded musicians. Orange Juice were awash with art school exhibitionism; mid-career Primal Scream wer... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
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Tenebrous Liar – End of the Road
Since NME photographer Steve Gullick formed Tenebrous Liar in 2006, they’ve racked up an improbable seven LPs of roughly-hewn, heart-on-sleeve grungy ... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
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Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs – Sunday Run Me Over
Sunday Run Me Over is Holly Golightly’s fifth album in five years with Lawyer Dave (aka one-man backing band The Brokeoffs). For most artists, this w... Read more »| 01 Oct 2012 -
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Seaming – Seaming
Having worked with the Cinematic Orchestra, Leila, Herbaliser and a whole host of other seminal musicians and bands, not to mention being a core member of Ho... Read more »| 01 Oct 2012 -
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Two Gallants – The Bloom and the Blight
The numerical value held within their name has been a thread throughout Two Gallants’ work. For there has always been a duality about the work of the S... Read more »| 01 Oct 2012