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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AlbumsBe Your Own Pet - 'Be Your Own Pet'
the younger, sillier answer to New York garage rock Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
SinglesSkindred - Pressure
Punk-metal reggae fronted by a Welshman anyone? Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
SinglesOrson - No Tomorrow
Easy-listening-by-numbers Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Singles
Nizlopi - Girls
Jack Johnson with an English twist Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Singles
David Ford - I Don't Care What You Call Me
Quiet guitar, mellow organs and fully hum-able melodies in place. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
AlbumsTwo Gallants - 'What The Toll Tells'
They do not slump into their sophomore album àno, they crash through it, banging and booming, yelling and yearning. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006
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Albums
Tony Allen - Lagos No Shaking
lamely recontextualising all the pre-cursory afro-beat elements that went on to inform hip-hop and funk Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Singles
The Chalets - Theme From Chalets
...striking similarities with Paula Abdul's Opposites Attract... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Albums
The Research - 'Breaking Up'
The Wakefield trio pull it off shamelessly well at times Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Ep
The Mile End Ladies String Auxiliary - 'From Cells of Roughest Air' EP
Godspeed and Set Fire To Flames performing their apocalyptic compositions after walking home along cosmopolitan rue St-Laurent Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Albums
Skye - 'Mind How You Go'
Skye gets personal Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Albums
Morning Runner - Wilderness is Paradise Now
This piano changes mood like it has multiple personalities. It begins with bombastic rocky intentions, only to become all tearful and smooth. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Albums
FBC - 'The Landing Party'
Welcome to Jazz Club, where the drinks are overpriced but the people are nice Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Albums
Dilated Peoples - '20/20'
Back again is the cunningly entitled first single from Dilated Peoples' latest record '20/20' and considering the current climate in bling-loving la-la-land, thankfully it's true Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Albums
Corinne Bailey Rae - 'Corinne Bailey Rae'
The R&B anticlimax of the season Read more »| 17 Mar 2006