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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AlbumsMilburn - Well Well Well
Although it sticks to a narrow musical palette, 'Well Well Well' is a solid debut Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
AlbumsChuck E Weiss - 23rd & Stout
The perfect bridge between Wait's earlier, swinging material and his later sea-shanty experiments driven by clanking percussion. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Albums
Catfish Haven - Tell Me
can drift a little too far into shallow waters Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
AlbumsBob Dylan - 'Modern Times'
Dylanologists will have a field day, but then they always do. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Ep
Yo Majesty - Yo EP
It's really silly stuff, definately not one for self-conscious heads. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Singles
Revere - Learning To Breathe
Comparisons to contemporaries come all too easy here. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006
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Singles
Phoenix - Consolation Prizes
Consolation Prizes is a joyful, albeit derivative, dose of guitar-y goodness Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Albums
Union of Knives - Violence & Birdsong
plenty of material to suit both airwaves and underground decks alike Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
AlbumsConner - Hello Graphic Missile
uninspired Anglo guitar drivel Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Albums
Colin Kerr - The Perilous Final Passage of the Romantic Weights
there's only so much binary cello one can take Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Singles
Sandi Thom - What If I 'm Right
A perfect fit of function and form, sadly, the function is wall-paper Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
SinglesBadly Drawn Boy - Nothings Going to Change Your Mind
Badly Drawn Boy has lost interest. I think I have too Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Albums
Sunno)))/Boris - Altar
Shapeshifting from liturgical voices to spaced-out electronics taking drone into dimensions previously uncharted. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Singles
Deftones - Hole in the Earth
Utterly essential, though still unfairly cursed as one of the catalytic bands to usher in that bombardment of nu-metal dross in the late 90s, Sacrame... Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Albums
Audioslave - Revelations
"In uncertain times, come pull the sheet over my eyes / You're trading lives for oil as if the whole world were blind," Chris Cornell croons over funk-drench... Read more »| 13 Oct 2006