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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AlbumsBlank Realm – Go Easy
Brisbane’s Blank Realm have evolved from a psych-jam outfit into something more controlled, but the elements of that beginning remain evident on G... Read more »| 28 Feb 2013 -
AlbumsKid Canaveral – Now That You Are a Dancer
With Now That You Are a Dancer, Kid Canaveral make the whole ‘difficult second album’ to-do look terribly passé, offering a textbook ... Read more »| 27 Feb 2013 -
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Aera – Offseason Traveller
The debut LP from this Berlin-based producer, mainly known for his quietly seductive house output, confronts the structural difficulties which LPs sometimes ... Read more »| 27 Feb 2013 -
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Post War Years – Galapagos
All Eyes, the opening track on this Hackney-based quartet’s second LP, opens proceedings with bold but unwieldy bluster: a slow, grandiose would-be ant... Read more »| 27 Feb 2013 -
AlbumsConny Ochs – Black Happy
Best known for his collaboration with doom merchant Wino, German singer-songwriter Conny Ochs returns to a simple solo set-up with second album Black Ha... Read more »| 27 Feb 2013 -
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Brandt Brauer Frick – Miami
Berlin-based trio Brandt Brauer Frick have succeeded in their mission to bring a bit of classical music's style and grace to techno with their two previous a... Read more »| 27 Feb 2013
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Julia Kent – Character
Cellist Julia Kent describes third solo album Character in evocatively conceptual terms, its ten instrumental pieces a musical musing on life&rsquo... Read more »| 27 Feb 2013 -
AlbumsMy Bloody Valentine – m b v
The turn of the century was a time of great productivity for Kevin Shields. He toured and recorded with Primal Sceam, his arrival inspiring the band to produ... Read more »| 26 Feb 2013 -
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Suuns – Images du Futur
If at first you don't succeed, try again? That seems to be the motto of Montreal's Suuns. 2011's excellent Zeroes QC was criminally overlooked by t... Read more »| 26 Feb 2013 -
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Function – Incubation
The debut full-length album from New York's David Sumner under his Function alias has been a long time coming – his production and remix credits using ... Read more »| 26 Feb 2013 -
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How to Destroy Angels – Welcome oblivion
Having delivered two competent-but-unremarkable EPs thus far, How to Destroy Angels were surely looking to make a strong statement with their debut long-play... Read more »| 25 Feb 2013 -
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Mogwai – Les Revenants
Mogwai's soundtrack for French zombie TV show Les Revenants is an exercise in wilful self-control and restraint, with their customary feedback-driven walls o... Read more »| 22 Feb 2013 -
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Mano Le Tough – Changing Days
Born near Dublin, Niall Mannion aka Mano Le Tough moved to Berlin some time before 2009, and quietly began to revolutionise the template of house music with ... Read more »| 22 Feb 2013 -
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Various Artists – Dødpop Vol. 3
Skwee is an awkward beast of a genre. Glasgow-based artist Ben Butler & Mousepad described it for us in a recent interview: “Synthetic funk; influe... Read more »| 18 Feb 2013 -
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Miguel Baptista Benedict – Super(b)-Child-Ran
Less an album and more of a compilation, this collection of cut-ups and collages from experimental producer Miguel Baptista Benedict was selected by Brainfee... Read more »| 18 Feb 2013