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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EpDeerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP
Okay, this is how EPs should be done. Five songs in fifteen minutes that serve to remind us just what a freakish talent Bradford Cox actually is. As his gorg... Read more »| 03 Jun 2009 -
AlbumsFreeland - Cope™
Freeland is the live arm of Adam Freeland, a DJ who was at the forefront of the late 90s ‘nu-skool breaks’ scene. If more people had followed his... Read more »| 03 Jun 2009 -
AlbumsVarious Artists - Causes 2
Causes 2, the second in Waxploitation Records' charitable series, balances musical quality with worthy causes, making it worth your money for all the right reasons. Read more »| 03 Jun 2009 -
EpWithered Hand - You're Not Alone EP
After the rollicking full band sing-along of first EP Religious Songs, this second EP showcases the more reflective side of Withered Hand's Dan Willson, here... Read more »| 02 Jun 2009 -
Albums
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Sonic Youth's greatest album is always whichever one you heard first - unless that was NYC Ghosts & Flowers (you poor thing). The band's famous experimen... Read more »| 02 Jun 2009 -
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Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor
An album ornamented in the existential backdrop of perdition, between Arcadia and Abaddon, The Bachelor veers between notions of armageddic chaos and the tra... Read more »| 02 Jun 2009
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Albums
James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game
James Blackshaw made his name with his prodigious talent on the twelve-string guitar, but eighth album The Glass Bead Game suggests that dexterous fingerpick... Read more »| 02 Jun 2009 -
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The Colourful Band - The Colourful EP
The Colourful Band is primarily the work of Ian McKelvie, an Edinburgh resident inspired to song by six months travelling in Australia. If the gap-year biogr... Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
Albums
Broken Records - Until The Earth Begins To Part
Since Broken Records first emerged in Edinburgh in 2007, Scottish music fans have awaited their debut album with huge anticipation. The Skinny has featured or positively reviewed them several times, but does their debut deliver? Ally Brown places Until the Earth Begins to Part under the microscope. Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
Albums
Astrid Williamson - Here Come The Vikings
Astrid Williamson branches out into new textures and timbres. Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
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Meursault - Nothing Broke EP
Amongst the 'bigger' songs on Meursault's debut album, A Single Stretch of Land showed that songwriter and vocalist Neil Pennycook can do pared-back and rest... Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
Singles
The Dirty Dozen - June, 2009
Plenty of new music in the D-12 sack this month, but Nick Mitchell finds that there's just no keeping a few Britpop veterans down Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
Singles
The Airborne Toxic Event - Happiness is Overrated
If you are looking for a new band that all the cool kids are going to love then these are the guys for you. Just don't expect anything groundbreaking. Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
Albums
Matteah Baim - Laughing Boy
Previously half of Metallic Falcons with Sierra Casady (of weird dream-pop eccentrics CocoRosie), second album Laughing Boy reveals Matteah Baim to be more g... Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
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Sound of Guns - Architects
Listing Led Zep, the Verve and the Rolling Stonesamong their influences, Liverpool five-piece Sound of Guns are kitted out for rock. Coming in at the three m... Read more »| 01 Jun 2009