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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AlbumsYeti Lane - Yeti Lane
Comfort zones make things easier to swallow, but familiarity in music needn't always breed contempt, as Yeti Lane quite carefully remind us. As with ... Read more »| 07 Jan 2010 -
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The Seventeenth Century - The Notes EP
The Seventeenth Century are a baroque folk pop collective threading strings and things through dramatic songsmithery. As such, they’re far from groundb... Read more »| 07 Jan 2010 -
AlbumsEverybody Was In The French Resistance... Now! - Fixin' The Charts, Volume One
In some of the more glowing appraisals of his work with Art Brut, Eddie Argos has been compared favourably to Craig Finn, barroom bard and Hold Steady’... Read more »| 06 Jan 2010 -
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Delphic - Acolyte
If New Order ever left you cold, this will give you hypothermia Read more »| 06 Jan 2010 -
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Diarmaid O Meara - Structured Noise
Structured Noise is the sort of thing Amnesty International would seek to make illegal under human rights laws. Sitting through the 72 long, long minutes of ... Read more »| 06 Jan 2010 -
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You Me At Six - Hold Me Down
To underestimate angst rock is a dangerous practice. To those who have escaped adolescence in one piece, the aimless yelping of the latest mosh-by-numbers em... Read more »| 04 Jan 2010
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AlbumsGift of Gab - Escape 2 Mars
As one half of prolific hip-hop duo Blackalicious, Tim Parker lived up to his alias with a flow that's seen him described by AllMusic as "one of the top MCs ... Read more »| 04 Jan 2010 -
Singles
The Dirty Dozen - January 2010
From George Formby to Mariachi horns, this month's Dozen is as weird as that time Steve Coogan dated Courtney Love. Finbarr Bermingham casts a scrutinous eyeball over January's singles. Read more »| 01 Jan 2010 -
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Thao with The Get Down Stay Down - Know Better, Learn Faster
US singer-songwriter Thao Nguyen's second album in collaboration with The Get Down Stay Down is a singular creature: a break-up record which somehow evokes t... Read more »| 01 Jan 2010 -
Singles
The BDIs - It Was Not Serious
Tight guitar work, even tighter harmonies, and, considering their indie-country sound, the likelihood of superlatively tight trousers, It Was Not Ser... Read more »| 01 Jan 2010 -
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HiM - ?
They may have started out under the dub umbrella, but HiM, the portal through which California-based Doug Scharin pushes his sonic envelope, are now a very d... Read more »| 01 Jan 2010 -
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Owen Pallett - Heartland
Restraint has always been a key factor for the artist formerly known as Final Fantasy. Owen Pallett’s delicate chamber-pop nuggets could easily be expa... Read more »| 28 Dec 2009 -
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Eels - End Times
E marks his divorce with another unflinchingly honest album. Read more »| 28 Dec 2009 -
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Various - Avalanche Records Alternative Christmas
Compilations like Avalanche Records Alternative Christmas are vitally important. Their necessity will be emphasised repeatedly over the next few days: they w... Read more »| 22 Dec 2009 -
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Parenthetical Girls - The Scottish Play
Strictly limited availability (500 copies) in a silk-screened (???) sleeve illustrated by Glasgow's David Shrigley, it would come as no surprise if this also... Read more »| 22 Dec 2009