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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AlbumsGraham Coxon - The Spinning Top
Opening with a Nick Drake homage and proceeding in a folky vein, The Spinning Top finds Coxon having abandoned the pop-punk modes of his previous two solo al... Read more »| 30 Apr 2009 -
AlbumsThe Wow Signal - Infinity's Lobby
From the off this album is littered with familiar flavours. Healthily enthusiastic opener Purr Right drips with the energetic, blues-meets-punk of early Scre... Read more »| 30 Apr 2009 -
AlbumsHey!Tonal - Hey!Tonal
The pedigree of this collective is unquestionable. Members and ex-members of Storm & Stress, Sweep The Leg Johnny, Maps & Atlases and Joan of Arc, am... Read more »| 29 Apr 2009 -
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John Vanderslice - Romanian Names
San Franciscan John Vanderslice releases his third albumm, and debut for Dead Oceans Records, Romanian Names Read more »| 29 Apr 2009 -
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Zoey Van Goey - The Cage Was Unlocked All Along
Glasgow-based three-piece Zoey van Goey seem to have been about forever (that’s not a name you’re likely to forget), yet their recordings have be... Read more »| 29 Apr 2009 -
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Vacuum Spasm Babies - Whipping Clowns
Having apparently toiled in the depths of the Scottish musical underground for two decades, it's a real shame Charles S Bravo and Malcolm Spasm didn't take a... Read more »| 29 Apr 2009
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Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love
Black Mountain found substantial success with last year’s proggy opus In The Future, though sixteen-minute psych-jams were never going to be to everyon... Read more »| 27 Apr 2009 -
AlbumsThe Maccabees - Wall of Arms
Brighton based indie kids pull out all the stops on excellent second album Read more »| 27 Apr 2009 -
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Indigo Jones - Death Of A Matador
Certain aspects of a band's sound are indisputably esoteric: often it takes repeated listens for it to make sense and other times it maybe just never will. V... Read more »| 27 Apr 2009 -
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Jon Hopkins - Insides
The line between the polymath (the person who is good at everything) and the dilettante (the person who flippantly dabbles in everything) is treacherous; mus... Read more »| 27 Apr 2009 -
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Peaches - I Feel Cream
Kurupt once said that you can’t make a ho a housewife, but Peaches is giving it a jolly good go. I Feel Cream opens with something of a red herring; su... Read more »| 27 Apr 2009 -
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Bill Wells & Maher Shalal Hash Baz - GOK
Despite being 5701 miles apart (thanks, Internet), Scotland and Japan have a long-standing musical affinity, with bands like the BMX Bandits arguably finding... Read more »| 27 Apr 2009 -
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Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band - Outer South
If you’ve come here looking for a helpful soundtrack to some impending suicide attempt in a rustic shack on the edge of a steely lake in the ass-crack ... Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
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MC Lars - This Gigantic Robot Kills
MC Lars has returned with his trademark nerdcore, or, in his own words, “post-punk laptop rap”. He's certainly got his full geek on for This Giga... Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
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Gomez - A New Tide
I never really cared for Gomez back in the day. Their debut album Bring It On was a decent slice of country-tinged pop, but the poisoned chalice of a Mercury... Read more »| 24 Apr 2009