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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AlbumsSavages – Adore Life
Few bands can rule that 'love is the answer' without a single wink of irony, and pull it off with magnificent, majestic aplomb. For this reason, amongst many... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
AlbumsEmma Pollock – In Search of Harperfield
Devotees of former indie magicians The Delgados will find much to love in Emma Pollock's third solo album since her revered band amicably split in 2005. The ... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
AlbumsShearwater – Jet Plane and Oxbow
Back in 2008, with breakthrough Rook newly hatched and attracting fresh interest, Shearwater were invited to open a handful of dates on Coldplay’s... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
AlbumsThe Besnard Lakes – A Coliseum Complex Museum
If you like giant orbs, the great outdoors, hanging out in museums and being told creepy, candle-lit stories of strange beasts and ghostly happenings, you&rs... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
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Songs For Walter – Songs For Walter
After years of gracing the various backstreet and basement stages of his hometown, Manchester's Laurie Hulme finally releases his debut album. A hotch-potch ... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
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Mystery Jets – Curve of the Earth
Those firing into Curve of the Earth expecting the same twinkly-eyed, danceable indie-pop as their seminal debut Making Dens (some ten years later, would you... Read more »| 05 Jan 2016
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AlbumsHowes – 3.5 Degrees
Delicate, sparse, occasionally transmogrifying; the debut album from Manchester-based musician John Howes is both back-lit and fugue-like, riffing upon solit... Read more »| 05 Jan 2016 -
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Then Thickens – Colic
There’s plenty of drugs and death on Then Thickens’ second album, and it’s soaked in the damage done by both. My Sunday finds Jon-Lee ... Read more »| 02 Jan 2016 -
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De Rosa – Weem
Though they announced their reunion back in 2012, the release of Weem bookends a hiatus of almost seven years for Bellshill quintet De Rosa. Now a trio in th... Read more »| 02 Jan 2016 -
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Hinds – Leave Me Alone
What a year Hinds had. 2015 saw the Madrid garage-rockers explode onto the international scene, scooping up fancy festival slots with tracks like Bamboo, and... Read more »| 31 Dec 2015 -
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Guadalupe Plata – Guadalupe Plata
The kind of record that leaves you feeling you need a bath, Guadalupe Plata is beyond dirty. A scuzzed-up, howlaround, frenzied fusing of blues forms and pun... Read more »| 30 Dec 2015 -
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Pete Astor – Spilt Milk
Following last year’s dabblings in kraut-out dubtronica with Ellis Island Sound, Pete Astor returns to what he does best: serenading us with simple, we... Read more »| 30 Dec 2015 -
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Beans on Toast – Rolling Up the Hill
As ever, Beans on Toast, AKA Jay McAllister, serves up his homespun, ramshackle folk with a side order of spiked, stick-it-to-the-man polemic. Words come at ... Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
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Aucan – Stelle Fisse
Far from the shy retiring geeks of electro stereotype, Italian trio Aucan have toured incessantly over the last few years, playing over 300 shows supporting ... Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
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Hanne Kolstø – While We Still Have Light
Hanne Kolstø's latest boasts a cracking USP: While We Still Have Light is the Norwegian's fifth album in five years. In an age where artists routinely... Read more »| 01 Dec 2015