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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AlbumsIdlewild - Post Electric Blues
This up-beat album could be a surprise for Idlewild fans but the outlook is far from bleak for the band Read more »| 21 Sep 2009 -
AlbumsCalifone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
Such a vast variety of instruments crop up on Califone’s sixth album that to list them all would fill this review’s entire word count, leaving no... Read more »| 21 Sep 2009 -
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Dixon – Temporary Secretary
With Temporary Secretary, Berlin house maestro Dixon has delivered the first mix CD for Innervisions, the label he runs in partnership with fellow German pro... Read more »| 21 Sep 2009 -
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The Discordian Trio - The Discordian Trio Presents
Quick on the heels of Acoustic Ladyland, The Discordian Trio bring jazz kicking and squeaking into the 21st century. With their line-up spanning mathcore and... Read more »| 20 Sep 2009 -
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Boutros Bubba - National Anthems
Who would have thought the Dutch could be such a cynical bunch? National Anthems is the skewed, angular, sarcastic outpouring of three gifted and apparently ... Read more »| 18 Sep 2009 -
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WHY? - Eskimo Snow
Short-but-sweet opening track These Hands announces Eskimo Snow’s emotional register. Blessed as ever with a grandiose gift of the gab, these ten track... Read more »| 18 Sep 2009
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AlbumsLethal Bizzle - Go Hard
Of all the artists who swapped dodgy deals for record deals and made the leap from grimy London streets to the charts, Lethal Bizzle is the one that retained... Read more »| 18 Sep 2009 -
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Atlas Sound - Logos
Bradford Cox was understandably upset when an innocent filesharing error on his part resulted in an unfinished Logos being hawked around cyberspace, so much ... Read more »| 18 Sep 2009 -
AlbumsCharlotte Hatherley - New Worlds
Forget Florence and the Machine et al: Charlotte Hatherley is setting the creative agenda for British female artists. Joining Ash aged 17 in the mid-1990s, s... Read more »| 18 Sep 2009 -
AlbumsOm - God is Good
Not satisfied with merely adorning both the inside and back covers with the fact that, yes, this album was recorded by Steve Albini, the only photograph on O... Read more »| 18 Sep 2009 -
Singles
Citizens - Try Smiling
Try Smiling, the debut EP from Glasgow trio Citizens -featuring Bronto Skylift's Iain Stewart on drums - is a manic mash-up of converging styles, veering bet... Read more »| 17 Sep 2009 -
Albums
Various Artists - Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill - Extended Review
Inconsistency plagues a tribute album that really should have been something special. Read more »| 17 Sep 2009 -
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The Twilight Sad - Forget The Night Ahead
The Twilight Sad have taken on a leaner, meaner look in time for the release of their hugely anticipated second album Forget The Night Ahead. Singer James Gr... Read more »| 16 Sep 2009 -
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Phil Campbell - Daddy's Table
Having spent years battling drink, drugs and enduring trouble with record labels, it isn’t surprising that Phil Campbell has a wealth of materi... Read more »| 14 Sep 2009 -
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The Gullivers - Legerdemain EP
A Wall Against The Noise kicks off this second offering from Oxford four-piece, The Gullivers, creeping in with a wash of keyboard ambience and skeletal, gui... Read more »| 07 Sep 2009