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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Singles
13 Senses - All the Love In Your Hands
They don't really have anything to say beyond vapid sentiments. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Bonde Do Role - Solta O Frango
Best enjoyed in the summer, with added alcohol Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Dogs - This Stone is a Bullet
Ideal for moronic leaping around or macho posturing: a depressing canter through punk clichés. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Viking Moses - Swollen and Small
If anything, a haunting quality when compared to the quirky originals. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Justin Nozuka - After Tonight
Tame and commercial: indicating potential, but almost too polished to make an impact. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Malcolm Middleton - Fuck It, I Love You
Happiness is a fragile commodity, always at risk of being shattered by the heavy boulders of the singer's habitual self-doubt. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007
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Singles
Cherry Ghost - Mathematics
Grabs you like double periods of trigonomics just never could. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Ep
Lou Hickey - Does it Get Easier EP
Swoons in the best melodramatic fashion: light jazz strolling into the dark night. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm
Not entirely bad; even if Turner's vaguely self-righteous reverse-snobbery is
starting to grate. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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The Library Trust - My Town on TV
With a little extra kick in the production it could be up there with Snow Patrol as an after-work tonic for the ill-at-ease everyman Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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The Little Flames - Isobella
The melting distortion and disgruntled attack set them above the macho crop of indie-rockers. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Albums
Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures
Maximo Park used to be easily dismissed as post-punk scenesters ànot anymore. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Albums
Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
The Southern fried rock of before is now tempered with a healthy side salad. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Albums
Thee More Shallows - Book of Bad Breaks
These tunes are universal. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Albums
Tenebrous Mitchell - The Havering
The latest in the present flux of poetry-set-to-music projects, The Havering offers little to suggest that the two mediums are not mutually exclusive. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007