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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AlbumsMotley Crue - Saints Of Los Angeles
Inspired by the band's 2001 autobiography, The Dirt, Motley Crue's ninth studio album, Saints Of Los Angeles - repackaged and re-released here to coincide wi... Read more »| 17 Jan 2010 -
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Punch And The Apostles - Punch And The Apostles
Debut album from theatrical Glasgow seven-piece. Read more »| 16 Jan 2010 -
AlbumsPantha du Prince - Black Noise
Hendrik Weber aka Pantha du Prince has always operated at the accessible, super-melodic end of the techno spectrum and Black Noise is being touted by many as... Read more »| 15 Jan 2010 -
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Oh No Ono - Eggs
Already named fifth best Danish album of the decade at home, Eggs arrives in the UK at the best possible juncture. With the musicianistas and opinio-bloggers... Read more »| 13 Jan 2010 -
AlbumsThe Mary Onettes - Islands
Few nations have embraced the indie-pop aesthetic like the Swedes. From the outlandish kitsch of Jens Lekman, to the chart-bothering efforts of Peter, Bjorn ... Read more »| 13 Jan 2010 -
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Citay - Dream Get Together
Though they're often lumped in with the freak-folk movement, there is something decidedly proggier about San Francisco’s Citay than, say, Devendra Banh... Read more »| 11 Jan 2010
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AlbumsBasia Bulat - Heart of My Own
Everybody knows the one about the ‘difficult second album’: promising musician shoots his/her bolt on a debut, spends a year piecing together fra... Read more »| 11 Jan 2010 -
Singles
Ella Montclare - I Surrender
While the seemingly endless horde of eccentric and energetic young female performers (Flo, Marina, Little Boots, Ellie Goulding…) rush the charts, Ell... Read more »| 11 Jan 2010 -
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Tommy T - Prester John Sessions
One of the most ancient countries in the world, Ethiopia’s wellspring of history and mysticism – not to mention its status as the spiritual home ... Read more »| 08 Jan 2010 -
Singles
Emika - Drop the Other
Drop the Other is how Nico might have sounded had she been wearing a helmet in 1988 and lived to remain at the avant garde of the Berlin scene. It’s a ... Read more »| 08 Jan 2010 -
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Danton Eeprom - Yes Is More
Electro eccentric Danton Eeprom has been around for a few years now, wildly switching directions every so often through his varied solo singles, remixes for ... Read more »| 07 Jan 2010 -
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Icons of Elegance - Dancing Is Easy
Part of the reason that Scandinavian indie-pop seems to have such an easy journey across the North Sea to our cynical shores lies in the fact that they're so... Read more »| 07 Jan 2010 -
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Four Tet - There Is Love In You
Dogged by the ‘folktronica’ label since his 2001 album Pause, Kieran Hebden should, with any justice, be able to escape that particular straitjac... Read more »| 07 Jan 2010 -
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Yeti Lane - Yeti Lane
Comfort zones make things easier to swallow, but familiarity in music needn't always breed contempt, as Yeti Lane quite carefully remind us. As with ... Read more »| 07 Jan 2010 -
Ep
The Seventeenth Century - The Notes EP
The Seventeenth Century are a baroque folk pop collective threading strings and things through dramatic songsmithery. As such, they’re far from groundb... Read more »| 07 Jan 2010