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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AlbumsDarren Hayman and the Long Parliament – The Violence
For the concluding instalment of his ‘Essex trilogy’, Darren Hayman rewinds the clock a few hundred years. The first two parts surveyed the songw... Read more »| 26 Oct 2012 -
AlbumsMonokle – Saints
St. Petersburg-based producer Monokle's fifth album, his first for Ki, a boutique label set up in 2009, is a glorious trek through glitch, IDM and experiment... Read more »| 26 Oct 2012 -
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My Dying Bride – A Map of All Our Failures
Best known for pioneering modern British doom alongside bands like Anathema and Katatonia in the 90s, My Dying Bride have softened their approach in recent r... Read more »| 26 Oct 2012 -
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Andrzej Korzynski – Secret Enigma
Having already released two of his soundtrack recordings this year, Finders Keepers make good on their ongoing commitment to bring more of this eclectic Po... Read more »| 25 Oct 2012 -
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Jo Mango – Murmuration
It’s been six years since Jo Mango last released a full album. The Glasgow-based songwriter has been far from idle in that time, collaborating with art... Read more »| 24 Oct 2012 -
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Trapped Mice – Winter Sun
Winter Sun starts with An Ending: a two-minute instrumental in which plaintive accordion wheezes over traffic noise and sirens, conjuring an enticing ai... Read more »| 24 Oct 2012
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Reso – Tangram
Reso's full-length debut album starts out promisingly, with a muted arpeggiated synth-line running atop a wash of ambient noise. Within a few minutes we're b... Read more »| 24 Oct 2012 -
EpS-Type – Billboard EP
Bobby Perman, aka S-Type's first release in 2005 was a hip-hop themed EP for Surface Pressure. Since 2010's Medusa EP on Phuturelabs, he's turned his attenti... Read more »| 23 Oct 2012 -
AlbumsGodspeed You! Black Emperor – 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Of all the suspiciously frequent band reunions taking place over the past few years, elusive Canadian post-rock collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor's re... Read more »| 22 Oct 2012 -
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Kingdom of Fear – Kingdom of Fear
Remember when hip-hop used to be fun? Not cartoon hip-hop, not novelty hip-hop. Just fun. If you do, and you've been feeling alienated by the swathes of eith... Read more »| 22 Oct 2012 -
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Ital – Dream On
This is Ital's second release on Mu this year, a follow-up to the understated but intriguing Hive Mind. On Dream On, Ital leads us firmly in the direction of... Read more »| 22 Oct 2012 -
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DJ Yoda – Chop Suey
DJ Yoda is arguably the single most important DJ to oversee the popularisation of turntablism as an art-form. Q-Bert may put on a more impressive technical d... Read more »| 22 Oct 2012 -
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Ingen – Lusher EP
Edinburgh's Ingen has developed an outstanding live reputation with his live sets of dark electro, thundering breakbeat and pitch-black future bass. With rel... Read more »| 19 Oct 2012 -
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James Iha – Look to the Sky
James Iha's first solo album (1998's winsome Let It Come Down) served as a pleasant-enough, if underwhelming, soft rock missive from one of the alternative... Read more »| 17 Oct 2012 -
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Lapalux – Some Other Time EP
One of Brainfeeder's UK signings, Essex-born Lapalux has released on Pictures Music, and produced a self-released EP in 2011. He has also completed high-prof... Read more »| 15 Oct 2012