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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AlbumsMagik Markers - Balf Quarry
After years of numerous CD-R releases and punishing live shows, Magik Markers release their first album for Drag City Records. Read more »| 13 Apr 2009 -
Singles
Golden Silvers - True Romance Single Review
Is it possible for Golden Silvers to have anymore of an Eighties fixation? With a name like that, it's no surprise to hear disco basslines and New Romantic s... Read more »| 10 Apr 2009 -
AlbumsRichard Swift - The Atlantic Ocean
If Bob Dylan were to join The Research, perhaps in some alternate universe where musical stature and legend were rendered meaningles; if he were to spend mos... Read more »| 10 Apr 2009 -
AlbumsOne Day International - Black Bird
With Keane having time-travelled back to the '80s, the kingdom of piano-based pop waits to be claimed. One Day International are the perfect pretenders to th... Read more »| 10 Apr 2009 -
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Zarboth - Zarboth
As pioneers and masters of wildly shifting, cocks-in-hand, instrumental alt-rock, Oxes have become something of an easy solution for reviewers confronted by ... Read more »| 09 Apr 2009 -
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The Hands of the Wrong People - Spring Flakes
The Hands of the Wrong People are two-thirds German, but their sensitive, atmospheric guitar rock owes much to Scottish indie-pop tradition. While the band c... Read more »| 09 Apr 2009
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Broken Family Band - Please and Thank You
For Album Number Seven, most of the comparisons applied to the Broken Family Band’s past albums still stand: wittily cynical lyrics set to music that&r... Read more »| 09 Apr 2009 -
AlbumsVangel - Biblio
Vangel, a Toronto=based DJ and producer, scours the libraries of his home cities for inspiration and samples. Read more »| 09 Apr 2009 -
AlbumsBrakes - Touchdown
Initially epitomising the side project (members culled from the line-ups of several C-list indie groups - check! Five-second novelty throwaway tracks - check... Read more »| 08 Apr 2009 -
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Nadja - When I See the Sun it Always Shines on TV
This may very well be the world’s first catchy, singalong drone metal album. Read more »| 08 Apr 2009 -
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Grand Theft Bus - Move Upwards
Grand Theft Bus are a bunch of natively successful Canadian lads, but perhaps due to their almost psychotic identity issues they haven’t made it in the... Read more »| 08 Apr 2009 -
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Art Brut - Art Brut vs. Satan
Recorded with Frank Black in what is a rare production outing for the Pixies frontman, punk outsiders Art Brut have retained the rambunctious energy and ende... Read more »| 08 Apr 2009 -
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Passe Montagne - Oh My Satan
There are 12 instrumentals in 21 minutes on Passe Montagne’s brilliantly titled second record Oh My Satan. Consisting of two jagged, scratchy no-wave g... Read more »| 08 Apr 2009 -
Singles
Junior Boys - Hazel
A woman with Hazel eyes ruffles the Junior Boys' normally cool exterior Read more »| 08 Apr 2009 -
Albums
Prefuse 73 - Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian
The return of the mad scientist of hip-hop Read more »| 07 Apr 2009