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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EpIain Shaw – Milk Teeth EP
Milk Teeth is an apt name for this collection as the four songs on offer sound somewhat deciduous, like a prelude for something more permanent and greater to... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
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The Sexual Objects – Cucumber
The Sexual Objects play Freudian games on debut Cucumber. The onanistic connotations of the band/album name combination, along with tracks entitled Full Pene... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
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Sharon Van Etten – Epic
You can’t argue with statistics: if the bland outweighs the good, disappoint beckons. Quality ratios can be kind to the lengthy – an opus like Th... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
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The Gaslamp Killer – Death Gate EP
While psychedelic and Eastern music have all made an impact on hip-hop's sampladelic soundscape in some limited way, few have made the combination sound so n... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
AlbumsNosferatu D2 – We’re Gonna Walk Around This City With Our Headphones On To Block Out The Noise
Thrashing frenetic guitars, and hectic jaw-drop drumming, with what sounds like Zed from Police Academy on vocals - this is a win, win, win situation! Tighte... Read more »| 21 Oct 2010 -
EpdBass – Garden EP
Coming off a spate of gigs around the UK, dBass release their Garden EP, and if the 3 tracks don't quite capture the muscular risk-taking of their live attac... Read more »| 21 Oct 2010
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AlbumsThe Fruit Tree Foundation – First Edition
It’s tempting to be abnormally lenient towards a record borne of a good cause, with lyrical ideas that deal with difficult, easily overwrought themes o... Read more »| 19 Oct 2010 -
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ESG - Dance to the Best of ESG
South Bronx's ESG (Emerald Sappire and Gold) are three street-smart sisters by the name of Scroggins who introduced punks' DIY ethic into dance music way bac... Read more »| 18 Oct 2010 -
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Teebs – Ardour
Los Angeles has never been more protean in dance circles than it is right now and here is Teebs to make the most of the scene's 'Seattle moment'. A collabora... Read more »| 18 Oct 2010 -
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Josephine Foster & The Victor Herrero Band – Anda Jaleo
Colorado born Josephine Foster appears to be on an endless journey of musical discovery, an opera-school drop-out – oh the shame – she’s si... Read more »| 14 Oct 2010 -
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Agnes Obel – Philharmonics
It’s not hard to muster some gushing verbal diarrhoea of how enchanting, bewitching, and other-worldly Philharmonics sounds but the truth is that with ... Read more »| 14 Oct 2010 -
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Panico – Kick
It seems almost a cruel joke that Chemikal release this just as we approach the depths of winter, because Kick, from Chilean quintet Panico is the ideal soun... Read more »| 14 Oct 2010 -
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Mice Parade – What It Means To Be Left-Handed
Ever since their inception in 1998, Adam Pierce’s Mice Parade have emblemised bold ambition, baulking any calls to conform with a melting pot of influe... Read more »| 14 Oct 2010 -
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The Orchids – The Lost Star
Veterans of the Glasgow scene, The Orchids cut their teeth twenty years ago with cult Bristol based Sarah Records, lending the kind of jangly indie credentia... Read more »| 12 Oct 2010 -
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Lupen Crook – The Pros and Cons of Eating Out
For an act that has been in existence for just over five years, Lupen Crook have left a hefty trail of releases in their wake, with The Pros and Cons of Eati... Read more »| 05 Oct 2010