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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EpSilverclub - Answers EP
Silverclub are a Manchester supergroup of sorts – maybe not on the same level as Electronic, but its members include Jim Noir, the pop-folk cha... Read more »| 23 Nov 2009 -
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Kin - Dot Dot Dot EP
Manchester-baed Kin has one of the strangest and most compelling voices you’re ever likely to hear. It swells and builds like a more disturbing Karen O... Read more »| 23 Nov 2009 -
SinglesEddi Reader - Dragonflies
Maybe it’s the uplifting waltz-like jig, the jangling sleigh-bell percussion or the slow-melting vocals, but Eddi Reader’s new single is like a l... Read more »| 23 Nov 2009 -
SinglesEagleowl - Sleep the Winter
A song’s beauty can reside in the slightest of touches, the line separating a graceful composition from a shiver-inducing one sometimes as ephemeral as... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
Albums
The Clientele - Bonfires On The Heath
When US tastemakers Pitchfork unveiled their list of the decade’s greatest albums, UK readers would have been excused for quizzically raising e... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
SinglesAnimal Collective - Fall Be Kind
Animal Collective are outstandingly prolific. So reason suggests that after ten years of activity, they have to put out the inevitable clunker, right? Wrong.... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009
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Albums
Amy Millan - Masters of the Burial
An integral component in the success of Canadian indie heroes Stars and Broken Social Scene, Amy Millan’s mellifluous tones are somewhat exposed on thi... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
Singles
Bad for Lazarus - Old Rats on a New Ship
If anyone among the Brighton psychobilly scene would ever be as purposeful as to assign themselves a modus operandi, you get the sense Rich Fownes' would be ... Read more »| 19 Nov 2009 -
Albums
Maxwell Panther - Do You Feel Different Yet?
What’s lower than lo-fi? No-fi still sounds daft. Belo-lo-fi? Whatever - when the genre-baptists decide upon a suitable candidate, Maxwell Panther can ... Read more »| 19 Nov 2009 -
Albums
Shield Your Eyes - Shield Em
There is something to be said for bands who put significant effort into making music that doesn’t follow the generic 4/4 verse-chorus-verse structure o... Read more »| 19 Nov 2009 -
Albums
Cosmo Jarvis - HUMASYOUHITCH/SONOFABITCH
Everyone loves to hate a gifted progeny, those savants who are way too successful, way too young. This charge could well be levied at 20 year old multi-instr... Read more »| 18 Nov 2009 -
Albums
BEAK> - BEAK>
Passive readers of certain mainstream music publications may have noticed an increasingly recurring namedrop recently: 1970s krautrock daddies Neu! are cool ... Read more »| 18 Nov 2009 -
Singles
Night Noise Team - Menolick
Pulsing harmonic arpeggios and a propulsive beat launch Night Noise Team’s debut single; a persuasively vibrant introduction to a song that nev... Read more »| 17 Nov 2009 -
Albums
Collapse Under The Empire - Find A Place To Be Safe
Instrumental “post-rock” commanded a great deal of attention and respect during its initial explosion in the early 90s, but what was once... Read more »| 17 Nov 2009 -
Singles
French Wives - Halloween/Dogfight
Creeping into earshot like next door's violin practice, Halloween is a bit of a slow-burner. Taking it's time to simmer from brittle, twinkling folk into chu... Read more »| 16 Nov 2009