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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AlbumsThe Dead Weather - Horehound
It’s natural that Jack White has dominated discussions of the Dead Weather. With two bands already under his command, the unveiling of a new blues-rock... Read more »| 09 Jul 2009 -
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The Twang - Jewellery Quarter
Despite the decimating response they received from critics, The Twang had a few half-decent hug-yer-mates moments in between the attempts at sounding tough o... Read more »| 08 Jul 2009 -
AlbumsJay Haze - Fabric 47
Jay Haze provides a mix with just as much heart as groove. Read more »| 08 Jul 2009 -
AlbumsMagnolia Electric Co. - Josephine
Records borne of personal tragedy are an odd beast: tinged with pain, they’ll often contain heartbreakingly honest song-writing, but can become stiflin... Read more »| 08 Jul 2009 -
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Fury UK - VR
Speaking from experience, the last thing music writers do at night is pray to their appropriate deity that it might deliver unto them the kind of record they... Read more »| 07 Jul 2009 -
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Fact - Fact
When music escapes the Far East, it’s generally remarkable in some way: Boris invigorated the sludge of stoner metal with Pink and bands like Pizzicato... Read more »| 07 Jul 2009
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Reverend & The Makers - A French Kiss In The Chaos
Jon McClure is on the ropes, so to speak. The self-proclaimed heavyweight champ of his own ego has taken a fair battering over the last year, ostensibly as s... Read more »| 07 Jul 2009 -
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The Stupids - The Kids Don't Like It
Surely the greatest musical proposition ever to hail from Suffolk – not that The Darkness and Tim Westwood present much of a challenge – John Pee... Read more »| 06 Jul 2009 -
SinglesDjango James & The Midnight Squires - Hurricane
Django James fancies himself as a fast-living ingénue, and his band’s debut single, Hurricane (sample lyric: “my eyes are rolling backward... Read more »| 06 Jul 2009 -
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The High Plane Drifters - Sweet Poppy Jean
Whatever else you might think of their gleefully inept garage shtick, you can’t say the High Plane Drifters haven’t swotted up on their rock heri... Read more »| 06 Jul 2009 -
AlbumsHercules & Love Affair - Sidetracked
New York DJ Andy Butler’s Hercules & Love Affair preceded the current disco vogue with first single Classique #2 in early 2007. Their subsequent LP... Read more »| 03 Jul 2009 -
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Oneida - Rated O
As a triple-CD set released as the second instalment of a triptych of albums, Rated O could either have turned out an epic listen or an indulgent d... Read more »| 02 Jul 2009 -
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Billy Talent - III
At the minute, Canada is ludicrously fertile territory for new bands; everywhere you turn, another one sprouts up, seemingly fully formed ('What's that? The ... Read more »| 02 Jul 2009 -
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Clark - Totems Flare
Clark’s third album follows a similar path to recent glitch-hop pioneers such as Mark Pritchard’s Harmonic 313 and rising Glaswegian star Hudson ... Read more »| 01 Jul 2009 -
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Lupen Crook and the Murderbirds - The Lost Belongings EP
Rhetoric, image and ideals are no consolation in the absence of tunes. Reading between the lines of a press release strewn with hyperbole and outsider orator... Read more »| 01 Jul 2009