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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AlbumsVarious Artists - My Favourite Things, Vol. 2
A techno compilation, by way of Japan, celebrates Mule Electronic's fifth birthday. The mixed results within fail to set the speakers alight. Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
SinglesWoodenbox With A Fistful Of Fivers - Hang the Noose
Woodenbox's second single, Hang the Noose, is a country tinged tale of death and remorse, and is released on the King Tuts label. Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
SinglesHockey – Learn To Lose
Here’s a band that has been virtually tailor-made for success. Endowed with a singer who has the rockstar book of delivery down pat (shifting effortles... Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
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Amazing Baby - Rewild
Rewild has an overall airiness to its production that almost suggests a '60s vibe, with frequent soft and richly-layered harmonies echoing Beach Boys records... Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
AlbumsEyes - Night Eyes
Eyes take the irreverent poses of Test Icicles and apply it to a mess of genres on their debut album for London's Seed Records. Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
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Spare Snare - I Love You, I Hate You
"I don't care what you thinks." Hissing electronics snatched from early Grandaddy records and distorted with the scuzz of the Probe Plus back catalogue: this... Read more »| 27 May 2009
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Thorn's Musical Journey - Broken Sword
With numerous references to religious imagery, and the occasional mention of God, one might be forgiven for thinking that Thorn's Musical Journey are - whisp... Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
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Hull - Sole Lord
The solitary gently-strummed Spanish-tinged guitar that opens this record is a not-entirely-convincing attempt at misleading the listener before the inevitab... Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
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Willem Maker - New Moon Hand
Given his sinister backstory, there were few career paths, other than that of the gruff, contemplative blues singer, which were realistically available to Wi... Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
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The Mummers - Tale to Tell
If Alice in Wonderland took an acid-fuelled day trip along Brighton pier, decided to turn her hand to a Fisher-Price xylophone, before partaking in a spot of... Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
Singles
Regina Spektor - Laughing With
Spektor has a lot to answer for. Begin to Hope’s full scale assault on the popular consciousness drove so many breathy derivatives out of the plinky pl... Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
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Moby - Wait For Me
If Last Night, Moby’s previous album, was an abbreviated eulogy to New York nightlife, then he evidently had too good a time of it. Wait For Me is the ... Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
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Tartufi - Nests of Waves and Wire
Tartufi deserve recognition as a wonderful and thrilling entity. Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
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Eels - Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs Of Desire
Virginia's tragic hero returns with a lo-fi, tuneful offering Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
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You Already Know - Stop Whispering
Since home studios revolutionised the recording industry, more and more bands have been taking matters into their own hands when it comes to capturing and re... Read more »| 26 May 2009