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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AlbumsDeradoorian – The Expanding Flower Planet
True to its title, the debut LP from ex-Dirty Projectors member Angel Deradoorian is the proverbial grower. Give it time and its slithering creations of enta... Read more »| 26 Aug 2015 -
ReviewsA Week in Records: Destroyer, Kagoule, Radkey
From Dan Bejar's exhilarating E Street homage to the snarling return of Sheffield techno anarchists The Black Dog, we run down five releases out today Read more »| 21 Aug 2015 -
AlbumsDr. Dre – Compton
“My life’s like a soundtrack I wrote to the beat,” Andre Young rapped way back on Still D.R.E., lead single off 1999’s sextuple-plati... Read more »| 13 Aug 2015 -
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Laura Cannell – Beneath Swooping Talons
Laura Cannell's (bloody) chamber music is the kind of artistry that pays back the courageous listener in spades. Her album notes speak of "pure music without... Read more »| 13 Aug 2015 -
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Beach House – Depression Cherry
You have to admire a band that sees dreaming as a matter of principle. Beach House’s fifth album shows the Baltimore duo turning back the clock with a ... Read more »| 12 Aug 2015 -
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Hills – Frid
These Gothenburg psych-rockers trudge, sleepy-eyed, out of the mist with their third album, before locking down and wailing in a manner both grimly ... Read more »| 12 Aug 2015
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AlbumsKelpe – The Curved Line
Such are the dynamics behind erudite, free-flowing electronica that with every addition we become even less certain of what year we’re in. Not that Kel... Read more »| 11 Aug 2015 -
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Autobahn – Dissemble
The opening track to Autobahn’s debut album is an intriguing one. The nascent Missing In Action is formed of a draughty, metallic clanging which gradua... Read more »| 11 Aug 2015 -
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A Week in Records: Mac DeMarco, Chelsea Wolfe, HEALTH
From rising NYC virtuoso Mac DeMarco to the return of experimental Los Angeles malcontents HEALTH, our Music team present a digest of five of the best LPs hitting the racks (virtually or otherwise) this Friday Read more »| 07 Aug 2015 -
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Paul Smith and the Intimations – Contradictions
When vogue moves on, it’s not uncommon for guitar bands to spend years scratching around for their next sound. And should Maxïmo Park fit that des... Read more »| 06 Aug 2015 -
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Radkey – Dark Black Makeup
When Radkey emerged from their bedrooms circa 2010, the three teenage brothers from Missouri were hailed by many as punk rock prodigies. But are they the nex... Read more »| 06 Aug 2015 -
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Kagoule – Urth
There's so much craft and character in evidence on this invigorating debut from the Nottingham trio. Picking the bones out of the early 90s US alt scene is e... Read more »| 05 Aug 2015 -
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The Black Dog – Neither/Neither
Sheffield's The Black Dog are as politically "fucking furious" as ever, the track titles on their 12th album doubling as a hit list. Their latest targets are... Read more »| 04 Aug 2015 -
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Advance Base – Nephew In The Wild
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone's Owen Ashworth returns to his Advance Base moniker for a second album, following 2012’s A Shut-In’s Praye... Read more »| 04 Aug 2015 -
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Destroyer – Poison Season
How do you follow a masterpiece? You go ahead and make another one. That’s been Dan Bejar’s tactic anyway, with his latest Destroyer release refl... Read more »| 30 Jul 2015