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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AlbumsTV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
Electro-gospel guerrilla warfare Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Singles
Stuart A. Staples - That Leaving Feeling
combines hushed strumming and intimate piano with some swaggeringly grand orchestral arrangements Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Singles
Josh Ritter - Egyptian Lillian
A tender triumph of countrified folk and heartening lyricism Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
SinglesYoung Stanley - Sing It For England
Admittedly, we aren't supposed to like this Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Singles
The Heights - Jamaica Beer Eyes
ingeniously infectious Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
AlbumsThe Automatic - Not Accepted Anywhere
What's that coming over the hill? It's a blooming fine album, thank you very much. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006
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AlbumsStuart A. Staples - Leaving Songs
First single That Leaving Feeling is an invigorating push-pull duet with Lhasa de Sela Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Singles
Razorlight - In the Morning
Not really worth the effort - at any time of the day Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Albums
Paul Weller - Catch-Flame
A few crowd pleasing Jam numbers are thrown in to sweeten the deal Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Love Is All - Nine Times That Same Song
In this anarchic incoherence Love Is All have created a head-fucking record of breakneck aggression. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Kieran Docherty - Expectations
Most of the tracks are frustratingly bitty Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Albums
Get Amped - Postcards From Hell
should have ten year olds laughing into their Trivium t-shirts Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Singles
The Lost Revue - Street Meat
All of us can learn morals from stories. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Albums
Saves the Day - Sound the Alarm
the result of the trauma is a fierce and powerful creation filled with spite that is truly coloured by personal struggle, self-loathing and disdain for the world in general Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
AlbumsEd Harcourt - The Beautiful Lie
Moments like The Last Cigarette and Rain On the Pretty Ones do however serve to remind why Ed is worthy of being considered as one of this generation's finer songwriters Read more »| 15 Jul 2006