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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Albums
Mansun - Legacy - The Best Of Mansun
Their gigs were all savage carnality and purple passion àMansun were a band that even made men wet. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Albums
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager
Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager' is an impassioned record from a modern liberal-left teen, a new torch-bearer for idol-hunting youngsters. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Albums
Duke Special - Songs From The Deep Forest
When most groups have little to offer, Songs from the Deep Forest is most definately worth a spin.
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Singles
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - The Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager (Part 1) (Atlantic)
A bo-ho teenage cult-leader with no suicidal suggestions? Worth keeping an eye on. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Singles
Hot Club de Paris - Everyeveryeverything/Hello Comrade (I Quit My Job) (Moshi Moshi)
Hot Club de Paris produce frenetic, naked pop music that sounds as if it might trip over itself at any moment Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Singles
Jack Butler - Velvet Prose
Is another retro wiry-guitar band to compliment the NME-fuelled nu-alternative bandwagon really necessary? Read more »| 13 Oct 2006
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Singles
James Yorkston - Steady As She Goes
Beautiful, no matter where you call home Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Singles
Muse - Starlight
so unfashionable it sounds like the theme for some short-lived 80s TV soap Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Singles
Razorlight - America
...you wish Borrell would stop harping on about the place and just emigrate Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Singles
Spearmint - Psycho Magnet
Peers at you from your stereo like a lovelorn Bernard Sumner Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Ep
Stephen Malkmus - Kindling for the Master remix EP
Stephen Malkmus gets the remix treatment on this adhoc little EP Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Singles
The Automatic - Recover
A shallow, tuneless void of a song Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Albums
Volt - Rorhat
It's almost as if grunge never hit the big time and was still a snarling beast dripping with sludge riffs and delerious headfuck. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Albums
Peppermint Creeps - AnimatroniX
Is everyone in LA on crack? Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
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Made Out Of Babies - Coward
Hell yes, it's better than drugs. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006