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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AlbumsOpen Mike Eagle – Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
Brick Body Kids Still Daydream offers everything you’d expect from an Open Mike Eagle album and rivals Dark Comedy for the best in his catalogue Read more »| 14 Sep 2017 -
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Prophets of Rage – Prophets of Rage
In a few buzzsaw riffs, one or two snare hits, it feels like there is something worthwhile in this group, some squandered potential that could have produced a very different album. In that respect, if in no other, this is incredibly apt to the times. Read more »| 13 Sep 2017 -
AlbumsLunice – CCCLX
Lunice channels an intense sci-fi compositional style into his debut long player, giving a raft of contributors room to breathe along the way Read more »| 13 Sep 2017 -
AlbumsSuperfood – Bambino
Bambino is a rollicking effort from a promising band Read more »| 13 Sep 2017 -
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Anna of the North – Lovers
Anna of the North’s debut album is a glistening journey through the spectrum of emotions associated with heartbreak. Read more »| 11 Sep 2017 -
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Sløtface – Try Not to Freak Out
Perky, punchy pop-punk gems make up Norwegian four-piece Sløtface’s debut album. Read more »| 11 Sep 2017
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Lomelda – Thx
Hannah Read's second album under her Lomelda moniker, Thx is the sound of a magnetic new artist shifting up a gear. Read more »| 07 Sep 2017 -
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Chad VanGaalen – Light Information
As Chad VanGaalen moves into fatherhood, his latest album covers the perils of maturity as much as it does his usual points of anxiety: detachment, isolation and alienation Read more »| 05 Sep 2017 -
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Candice Gordon – Garden of Beasts
Somewhere between PJ Harvey, Siouxsie Sioux and Murder Ballads-era Nick Cave, Garden of Beasts is an intriguing glimpse into an emerging, distinctive voice Read more »| 05 Sep 2017 -
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L.A. Witch – L.A. Witch
The Californian three-piece have never sounded harder or sharper than on their self-titled debut Read more »| 05 Sep 2017 -
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Tori Amos – Native Invader
Tori Amos's fifteenth album, Native Invader, draws on events from her own life as well as tensions across the globe Read more »| 04 Sep 2017 -
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Mount Kimbie – Love What Survives
Mount Kimbie's third album, Love What Survives, offers a scattergun approach to ideas, sounds and voices, and it could be their greatest record yet Read more »| 04 Sep 2017 -
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The National – Sleep Well Beast
The National take a more electronic approach with their seventh album, Sleep Well Beast Read more »| 04 Sep 2017 -
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Sparks – Hippopotamus
Twenty-odd albums in, the wit and ambition that got Sparks to this point remains intact on new album Hippopotamus Read more »| 04 Sep 2017 -
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Zola Jesus – Okovi
Zola Jesus meditates on both the living and the dead on her most musically crushing record yet Read more »| 04 Sep 2017