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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AlbumsStapleton - Rest and Be Thankful
“All good things must come to an end,” laments Stapleton’s Al Paxton on Absent Friends, apparently prepared to ride the cliché. Havi... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
AlbumsShooting At Unarmed Men - Triptych
That the harrowing opening few seconds of Triptych threaten to carbon copy Mclusky is unlikely to be accidental; singer Jon Chapple was behind the Welsh nois... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Scott Kelly - The Wake
Taking fellow Neurosis member Steve Von Till’s lead, Scott Kelly deconstructs his day job’s collapsing (new) buildings sound down to just voice a... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Pendulum - In Silico
When your debut album brings drum ‘n’ bass to the indie kids and suffers the inevitable purist backlash it can become difficult to maintain your ... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Orkestra del Sol - The Moveable Feast
These Spiegeltent favourites and brass titans finally unveil their second full length album and anyone to have experienced their raucous live shows will deli... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
AlbumsGrey Daturas - Return to Disruption
Taking an aesthetic cue from amp shredding moments of chaos and the creeping screeching strings of Italian giallo films, Grey Daturas are a behemothic beast.... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008
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AlbumsDrive By Argument - Drive-By Argument
Ayr's Drive By Argument promise to "make you shit your pants". If you don’t, they offer a complimentary laxative. It takes a special band to propose th... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Boris - Smile
Not wanting to be labeled as a racial profiler, I have previously pondered many times in these pages about why Japan does actually, factually have the best b... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Birds Of Avalon - Bazaar, Bazaar
This album is a brilliant example of how to bring classic rock influences into the 21st century. This is despite - or perhaps because of - Birds Of Avalon&rs... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Beehoover - Heavy Zooo
First off, this is quite some noise for a two-piece. Definitely at their best when summoning enormous riffs from the ether, Beehoover have managed to deliver... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Asva - What You Don't Know is Frontier
One of the more permissible travesties of modern music is the acceptance of ultra-grim necro black metal into the pretentious art types' embrace. It's not re... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Adem - Takes
Adem is no dying legend, ageing rockstar, nor crooning lounge lizard, yet he still survives the release of this covers album with his reputation not only int... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
Singles
Atmosphere - Shoulda Known
Atmosphere have delivered a welcome shot in the arm to a genre (hip-hop) that was in dire need of a fresh approach, waxing lyrical about paranoia, egos and w... Read more »| 23 Apr 2008 -
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James Hara - Nothing New
Singer-songwriters like Hara, who emigrated to Glasgow four years ago, might almost need to shout to be heard Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
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Lights, Action! - All Eyes To The Morning Sun
Nothing on this mini album from the London five-piece supports the cocksure attitude Read more »| 22 Apr 2008