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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AlbumsJ Mascis – Tied To A Star
Is any phrase in the pop lexicon even half as soul-crushing as ‘solo album’? They’re often drab affairs, characterised less by the artist&r... Read more »| 13 Aug 2014 -
AlbumsBear In Heaven – Time Is Over One Day Old
Bear In Heaven's fourth album is often shrewdly crafted. Each track is guided by a clean, simple melodic progression, Jon Philpott's vocals polished until th... Read more »| 12 Aug 2014 -
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Mndsgn – Yawn Zen
A slice of zen from the LA beat scene, courtesy of Mndsgn ('mind design'), a producer with one of the strangest bios ever written, involving flight from the ... Read more »| 12 Aug 2014 -
EpSEØUEL – Prague EP
Something has been brewing in the depths of former Degrassi frontman Tom Nicol's laboratory. As SEØUEL, the born again producer combines retro-futuris... Read more »| 12 Aug 2014 -
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Maybeshewill – Fair Youth
At some point during Fair Youth, you’re going to feel absolutely knackered. There seems little point in denying the emotive vastness of Maybeshewill&rs... Read more »| 12 Aug 2014 -
AlbumsCold Specks – Neuroplasticity
Slip on the second album from Cold Specks (aka Canada-born/UK-based singer-songwriter Al Spx), and it’s the voice that hooks you first. As opener A Bro... Read more »| 12 Aug 2014
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The Bug – Angels & Devils
This isn't the Bug album you are expecting. By splitting the album in two, Kevin Martin addresses some big themes and shows himself to be a producer of remar... Read more »| 06 Aug 2014 -
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Rustie – Green Language
There's a playfulness to the opening sections of Green Language – we are treated to three false starts, Rustie delivering riffs of staggering infe... Read more »| 06 Aug 2014 -
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The New Pornographers – Brill Bruisers
Perhaps it’s just the afterglow imparted by the pristine, peppy power-pop that’s been their stock in trade for the last 15 years, but life in The... Read more »| 06 Aug 2014 -
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James Yorkston – The Cellardyke Recording and Wassailing Society
James Yorkston’s eighth album of original material finds the erudite Fifer facing up to mortality in his most sparse and contemplative album to date. Y... Read more »| 06 Aug 2014 -
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Kan Wakan – Moving On
The free-wheeling debut from this LA-based trio is a winning concoction of dreamy atmospherics, bubbling grooves and orchestral arrangements. It’s a to... Read more »| 30 Jul 2014 -
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Benjamin Booker – Benjamin Booker
“The future is slow coming,” laments Benjamin Booker on the fourth track of his debut album and the first chance for the listener to catch breath... Read more »| 30 Jul 2014 -
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Rumour Cubes – Appearances of Collections
Oh, this is a beauty. Don’t let it get lost in the bewildering murk of the release calendar, or side-lined by the fickle fancies of the taste-makers. S... Read more »| 30 Jul 2014 -
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Grumbling Fur – Preternaturals
There'd be browned pants galore, should any of the current delay-pedal toting garage rock crop masquerading as 'psychedelic' delve as deeply into the mind's ... Read more »| 30 Jul 2014 -
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Celebration – Albumin
Celebration was born in 2004, when Katrina Ford, Sean Antanaitis and David Bergander dropped the name Birdland for something with more of a triumphant tone. ... Read more »| 30 Jul 2014