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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AlbumsXiu Xiu + Eugene S. Robinson – Sal Mineo
The free-noise assaults of Oxbow and the discomforting balladry of Xiu Xiu merge, evolve and mutate beyond recognition in this collaborative work by the main... Read more »| 23 Apr 2013 -
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Collar Up – Ghosts
Initially, Edinburgh trio Collar Up’s second album seems impeded by its unwavering melancholia, the overall impression one of over-earnestness and hand... Read more »| 23 Apr 2013 -
AlbumsJimpster – Porchlight and Rockingchairs
With over 20 years of production experience behind him, deep house supremo Jimpster's new album, his first for six years, is a polished affair. He attempts t... Read more »| 22 Apr 2013 -
AlbumsSolar Bears – Supermigration
Combining starlit electro, ethereal dream-pop, and a fetish-like adoration for pioneering 1980s synth soundtracks, Solar Bears' stew of influences places the... Read more »| 22 Apr 2013 -
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Darren Hayman and the Long Parliament – Four Queens EP
More than ten years since Hefner’s demise, Darren Hayman continues to produce the kind of wry, winsome indie which invariably featured heavily in John ... Read more »| 22 Apr 2013 -
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Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light
Sometime session saxophonist Colin Stetson has been blazing a strange and experimental path with his New History Warfare series, in which unique pl... Read more »| 16 Apr 2013
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AlbumsCut Yourself in Half – Mekkanizm
Yorkshire's Cut Yourself in Half lift more than a few pages from Mastodon's book on this first set of recordings: the down-tuned, groove-oriented nature of t... Read more »| 15 Apr 2013 -
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!!! – Thr!!!er
Throughout their 17 years thus far, !!! have evolved from a tight, snarling punk-funk ensemble into something altogether more louche, studied and h... Read more »| 11 Apr 2013 -
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David Grubbs – The Plain Where the Palace Stood
The second song on David Grubbs’ first full-length in five years, I Started to Live When My Barber Died, is a playful meditation on the creative potenc... Read more »| 09 Apr 2013 -
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Pan American – Cloud Room, Glass Room
Billed as an album that was 'written to be played live,' Mark Nelson's umpteenth album under the Pan American moniker makes only small changes to the group's... Read more »| 09 Apr 2013 -
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Akron/Family – Sub Verses
On seventh album Sub Verses, Akron/Family again manage to sound both formidably outré yet instinctively graspable. No Room is a brooding beast of... Read more »| 04 Apr 2013 -
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Sølyst – Lead
As the rhythmic powerhouse between krautrock/electronica/post-rock fusionists Kreidler, Thomas Klein has proved his chops as one of the most accomplished and... Read more »| 03 Apr 2013 -
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Neon Neon – Praxis Makes Perfect
Neon Neon’s auspicious debut, Stainless Style, was written in homage to '80s ‘icon’ John DeLorean with the sonic palette to match, but... Read more »| 03 Apr 2013 -
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The Thermals – Desperate Ground
The righteous fury of The Thermals continues to burn with intensity some ten years after their debut. The subjects that singer Hutch Harris has taken aim at ... Read more »| 03 Apr 2013 -
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Melvins – Everybody Loves Sausages
What better way to ring in Melvins’ 30th year than this snapshot of what was going on inside the impressionable minds of a young Buzz Osborne and Dale ... Read more »| 03 Apr 2013