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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AlbumsPaul Weller - Catch-Flame
A few crowd pleasing Jam numbers are thrown in to sweeten the deal Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
AlbumsLove 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 -
AlbumsKieran 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
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Albums
Ed 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 -
AlbumsCharlie Dore - Cuckoo Hill
An abysmal attempt Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Ep
Mogwai - Travel Is Dangerous EP
A disturbing journey deep in to the heart of this furiously blood-lusting group Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Ep
Robin Guthrie - Everlasting EP
It is little wonder that his music is so fittingly applicable to the screen Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Singles
Tapes 'n Tapes - Insistor
One storm you'll gladly batten down the hatches for. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Singles
King Creosote - 678
if it succeeds in attracting more converts to the good King's flock, it will have done its job admirably Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Singles
Belle and Sebastian - White Collar Boy
Encapsulates what a slick and confident pop machine these one-time wallflowers have become over their past two albums Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Singles
Gossip - Listen Up! Single Review by Melissa Thompson
if you really want to be an electro band it's okay, just be an electro band Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Albums
Y'All is Fantasy Island - In Faceless Towns Forever
Free from all the machinations and pretensions of the music industry Read more »| 15 Jul 2006