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 Mummers - Tale to Tell
If Alice in Wonderland took an acid-fuelled day trip along Brighton pier, decided to turn her hand to a Fisher-Price xylophone, before partaking in a spot of... Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
SinglesRegina Spektor - Laughing With
Spektor has a lot to answer for. Begin to Hope’s full scale assault on the popular consciousness drove so many breathy derivatives out of the plinky pl... Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
AlbumsMoby - Wait For Me
If Last Night, Moby’s previous album, was an abbreviated eulogy to New York nightlife, then he evidently had too good a time of it. Wait For Me is the ... Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
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Tartufi - Nests of Waves and Wire
Tartufi deserve recognition as a wonderful and thrilling entity. Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
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Eels - Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs Of Desire
Virginia's tragic hero returns with a lo-fi, tuneful offering Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
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You Already Know - Stop Whispering
Since home studios revolutionised the recording industry, more and more bands have been taking matters into their own hands when it comes to capturing and re... Read more »| 26 May 2009
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Paolo Nutini - Sunny Side Up
Anyone who caught Paolo Nutini’s numerous festival appearances in 2007/8 will have witnessed his rendition of the Disney song I Wanna Be Like You. Satu... Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
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Player Piano - Into The Dark EP
The reputation of piano-driven balladry may never recover from the pummelling it suffered at the hands of Keane and Coldplay, but Jeremy Radway is at least d... Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
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Franz Ferdinand - Blood
Franz Ferdinand’s third album Tonight was a muted success, despite the pre-release talk of afrobeat rhythms and experimental electronica largely turnin... Read more »| 25 May 2009 -
AlbumsWorriedaboutsatan - Arrivals
With its slow chord changes and floating beats, Arrivals at times sounds as though it is being played underwater. Crackly glitches and beeps are smoothed of ... Read more »| 25 May 2009 -
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Steel Panther - Feel The Steel
One of the most interesting things about this record and band is sifting through its self-propagated mythology. The LA quartet not only claim to have been ar... Read more »| 25 May 2009 -
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TV21 - Forever 22
A fine exhumation of '80s ‘indie’ that existed before the term became embarrassing and meaningless Read more »| 25 May 2009 -
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Iron Crease - Eye Increase
Thanks to an extended period of collective inactivity, the scattered members of cult Dundonians Laeto are gradually re-emerging into the world with new bands... Read more »| 25 May 2009 -
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Enter Shikari - Common Dreads
Two years ago, Enter Shikari were busy burrowing into the deepest, darkest crevice of subgenre, and they’ve defiantly made a squat of their niche ever ... Read more »| 25 May 2009 -
AlbumsIn Case of Fire - Align the Planets
How much emoting can you take? If picking up Align the Planets, your answer to that question had better be ‘a lot’, as every word sung by Steven ... Read more »| 25 May 2009