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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AlbumsÓlafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm – Collaborative Works
The vanguard of the nebulous classical indie scene combine on a beautiful double album. Read more »| 29 Oct 2015 -
AlbumsPhil Cook – Southland Mission
Southland Mission may be Phil Cook’s debut solo album, but it comes enriched by a decade of experience. In addition to his stretch as one-third of Mega... Read more »| 29 Oct 2015 -
AlbumsVideo – The Entertainers
“I will achieve and fulfill my destiny!” snarls Daniel Fried. Can’t fault his conviction, that’s for sure – not content with re... Read more »| 29 Oct 2015 -
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Trust Fund – Seems Unfair
Forget connotations of entitlement, Trust Fund have an almighty work ethic. Seems Unfair is Ellis Jones and co.'s second album this year, following the ... Read more »| 29 Oct 2015 -
EpTuff Love – Dregs EP
Junk. Dross. And now Dregs. Tuff Love are nothing if not self-effacing but the Glasgow duo's apparent modesty belies the sly sophistication and developing cr... Read more »| 29 Oct 2015 -
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Julia Kent – Asperities
The Canadian cellist's fourth album is a masterclass in tonal diversity, expressionist narrative and finespun drama. Perhaps best known for her work with Ant... Read more »| 21 Oct 2015
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Younghusband – Dissolver
This is Younghusband's sophomore effort after making a decent fist of updating the Mary Chain's apocalyptic 80s drone on their 2013 debut. In its own ri... Read more »| 14 Oct 2015 -
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Irmler/Einheit – Bestandteil
The latest collaboration between FM Einheit (Einstürzende Neubauten) and Hans-Joachim Irmler (Faust) – recorded over a four year period via a proc... Read more »| 13 Oct 2015 -
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Jaye Bartell – Loyalty
When Massachusetts-born poet-turned-songwriter Jaye Bartell asks “don’t you know me? I am your oldest friend” in the closing moments of his... Read more »| 13 Oct 2015 -
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Esmerine – Lost Voices
The fifth album from the Montreal chamber rock collective is a beguiling mass of dialled-down post-rock, classical figures and exploratory soundscapes. Led b... Read more »| 07 Oct 2015 -
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Roots Manuva – Bleeds
'The TVs and magazines keep them kinda hopeful that one day, in some way, they’ll get a lucky break, in the meantime that plant food provides a cheap e... Read more »| 07 Oct 2015 -
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Killing Joke – Pylon
Accomplished, you'd expect, but switched on and inspired? Neither is a given for a band fast approaching its fourth decade. In keeping with the blackened, ra... Read more »| 07 Oct 2015 -
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Joanna Newsom – Divers
Joanna Newsom’s last album, Have One On Me was a three-disc, 18-track, two-hour odyssey. Album number four is perhaps more modest in scale – ... Read more »| 07 Oct 2015 -
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EL VY – Return to the Moon
Members of the National and Menomena combine on a record that strikes a happy medium between the two Read more »| 07 Oct 2015 -
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VASA – Colours
Post-rock, apparently, although we can probably lose the ‘post’ part – Colours rawks wholeheartedly, if not life-changingly, construct... Read more »| 06 Oct 2015