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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AlbumsHelena Hauff – Discreet Desires
An established DJ, Helena Hauff has earned a reputation for pummeling dancefloors with her jagged, hardware-oriented techno, so it’s little surprise th... Read more »| 04 Sep 2015 -
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Introverted Dancefloor – Introverted Dancefloor
Not nearly as introspective as the eponymous album title would have you believe, Bevan Smith’s latest project as Introverted Dancefloor is restrained, ... Read more »| 04 Sep 2015 -
AlbumsDarwin Deez – Double Down
Brooklyn indie-pop oddball Darwin Deez cites influences for his sophomore release as diverse as The Beatles, Nietzsche, Ridley Scott and the Indian spiritual... Read more »| 04 Sep 2015 -
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Ubre Blanca – The Sadist EP
Sinister, portentous, unsettling… From the artwork's red skull to each isolated synth motif, the John Carpenter/Claudio Simonetti trappings of the Gla... Read more »| 03 Sep 2015 -
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Julia Holter – Have You In My Wilderness
It’s a pertinent circumstance that Julia Holter’s plush new album arrives just in time for the passing of summer and the slow-crawl in to the dar... Read more »| 03 Sep 2015 -
AlbumsGolden Void – Berkana
How big are your riffs? In the case of Bay Area quartet Golden Void, the answer is delivered without apology; all seven tracks comprising Berkana hark back t... Read more »| 03 Sep 2015
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Kurt Vile – b’lieve I’m goin down
Perhaps the natural meeting point between the gloomy Smoke Ring For My Halo and 2013’s more robust Wakin On A Pretty Daze, b’lieve I’m goin... Read more »| 03 Sep 2015 -
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Slayer – Repentless
The metal titans return with a composed, if unoriginal, new record that belies their recent turmoil Read more »| 03 Sep 2015 -
AlbumsBattles – La Di Da Di
Thank God for Battles. First emerging in the mid-noughties, theirs was a brand of fiery, frenetic art rock unlike any other: experimentalism charged with a s... Read more »| 02 Sep 2015 -
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Skylar Spence – Prom King
If it takes hefty willpower and 15 minutes of eyeballing your spots in the bathroom mirror before you can dance on a Friday night, here’s yer cure. Pre... Read more »| 02 Sep 2015 -
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Beirut – No No No
Few make the little appear big (and the big sound intimate) as elegantly as Zach Condon. Now back within the 4AD fold and recorded over a two week period in ... Read more »| 02 Sep 2015 -
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Le Butcherettes – A Raw Youth
Shards of ‘80s synth (My Malley; Witchless C Spot). Grungy, pre-millennial attitude (They Fuck You Over; The Hitchhiker). Scuzzy, sidewalk bass (pretty... Read more »| 02 Sep 2015 -
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Ought – Sun Coming Down
The ease with which Ought play at disorder is baffling. Slipping breezily from improv-infused chaos into tightly woven riffs, the Montreal-based four piece t... Read more »| 02 Sep 2015 -
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Low – Ones and Sixes
Feel that? It’s floating in between the aeons that pass between chords. It’s the haunting harmonies that shiver from the lips of Alan Sparhawk an... Read more »| 31 Aug 2015 -
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The Cesarians – Pure White Speed
Modern life desperately needs agit-pop. Something to shoot holes in perceived wisdom. Get it wrong, however, and you can end up with a mess like Pure White S... Read more »| 31 Aug 2015