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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AlbumsRed Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red Sun
Swelling, never ending guitar crescendos and trance inducing war drums. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
AlbumsDead Meadow - Dead Meadow
Every party needs a hallucinatory hippy album to finish things off mellow, and Dead Meadow might be just the come-down. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Cortez - Too Orangey For Crows
Though perhaps not earth-shifting, 'Too Orangey For Crows' is too good for anonymity. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Albums…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - So Divided
All that's missing is a poetic ramble about Texas radio and the big beat. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Mogwai - Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait OST
On record it sounds no less haunting Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Singles
Subtle - The Mercury Craze
A pulsating chrome-coated beat ushers fictional hiphop protagonist Hour Hero Yes through the door of this, the latest abstract from Subtle's modern day 'Tomm... Read more »| 12 Nov 2006
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Singles
Slayer - Eyes of the Insane
Feel bad hit of the winter Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Deftones – Saturday Night Wrist
Deftones are a band at the very height of their powers Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Dan Sartain - Join Dan Sartain
Though he will undoubtedly sound better live, Join Dan Sartain is a peek into the realm of an intriguing character. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
SinglesMogwai - Black Spider/Half Time
As if part of a long collapse Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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The Stone Ghost Collective - A Theory of Everything
Gorgeous music paired with a bit of space-knowledge, a bit of metaphysics, a bit of mysticism. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Isobel Campbell - Milkwhite Sheets
It's telling that two of 'Milkwhite Sheets' best tracks, James and the foreboding Over The Wheat & Barley, are instrumentals. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Mirah - Best Kept Secret
Singer-songwriter Mirah's new remix collection should bring her to a wider audience Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Singles
Husky Rescue - Diamonds in the Sky
a crystal-clear, near-literal example of the much-maligned 'chill out' genre Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Singles
Liam Frost and the Slowdown Family - The City Is At Standstill
threatens to pull Mr Frost and his brethren dangerously close to mainstream mega-sales Read more »| 13 Oct 2006