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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AlbumsBadBadNotGood – Late Night Tales
BadBadNotGood make their contribution to the artist-curated compilation series, with a substantial soul sampler that’s dynamic, international, and well-curated Read more »| 24 Jul 2017 -
AlbumsCage the Elephant – Unpeeled
Recorded on Cage the Elephant’s “stripped down” Live and Unpeeled tour, with the new sound leading to mixed results. Read more »| 24 Jul 2017 -
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Arcade Fire – Everything Now
Whether you'd like to admit it or not, we won't get another record like Funeral in our lifetime, especially not from that record's composers, Arcade Fir... Read more »| 24 Jul 2017 -
AlbumsFake Laugh – Fake Laugh
Fake Laugh, the new project from Kamran Khan, have teased their fans with a splattering of singles and EPs over the last few years but now their self-titled ... Read more »| 21 Jul 2017 -
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Dan Croll – Emerging Adulthood
Dan Croll could probably fill a small swimming pool with all the bells and whistles on Emerging Adulthood. His sophomore record is sticky with ear candy, eve... Read more »| 18 Jul 2017 -
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Nicole Atkins – Goodnight Rhonda Lee
The New Jersey native wears her legacy influences with pride, but ever since the release of 2007's Neptune City, Nicole Atkins has toyed with history with a ... Read more »| 17 Jul 2017
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Foster the People – Sacred Hearts Club
Let’s start with the good, because there’s more than a little to like about Foster the People’s new record. For one, there won’t be m... Read more »| 17 Jul 2017 -
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Callum Easter – Delete Forever
Delete Forever, the second mini-album from Edinburgh's Callum Easter, makes good on the singer-songwriter/producer's already distinctive sound. Late last yea... Read more »| 13 Jul 2017 -
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Boris – Dear
For 25 years, it would be fair to say Boris have earned a name for themselves as one the pre-eminent noise/drone bands in the world, let alone their native J... Read more »| 10 Jul 2017 -
AlbumsShabazz Palaces – Quazarz vs. The Jealous Machines
Shabazz Palaces have fully fallen for space travel on these sister albums starring Quazarz, Ishmael Butler’s new persona, who invites us into his realm... Read more »| 10 Jul 2017 -
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Shabazz Palaces – Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star
Shabazz Palaces are of the distant future, the forgotten past, or a wormhole connecting both. Songs are dense with effects, whisper-quiet raps masked by star... Read more »| 10 Jul 2017 -
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Art Feynman – Blast Off Through the Wicker
Californian musician Art Feynman is on a mission. He wants to try to find life in the lifeless, and discover what it actually means to be alive. That goes so... Read more »| 10 Jul 2017 -
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Siobhan Wilson – There Are No Saints
Elgin-born singer-songwriter Siobhan Wilson has been around a while under the guise Ella the Bird, but it’s under her own name she’s going to be ... Read more »| 10 Jul 2017 -
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Japanese Breakfast – Soft Sounds From Another Planet
The vivid melancholy of Michelle Zauner’s debut album Psychopomp was built on tragic circumstances: imbued by the memory of Zauner’s late mother,... Read more »| 10 Jul 2017 -
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Lucy Rose – Something’s Changing
Ah, the travails of being a female singer-songwriter in an age of superabundance. It may be John Lewis we have to thank but you can’t turn on the TV th... Read more »| 07 Jul 2017