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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SinglesThe Pipettes - Your Kisses are Wasted on Me
Perfect, unflabby pop to die for.
Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
SinglesThe Marshals - Make Her Cry
Fifteen listens in and not a single emotion is evoked in my mind Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
SinglesThe Like - June Gloom
a modest piece that recalls the more sleeping-pill shaped bands like Bush rather than the hate-fuelled legends Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Korn - Coming Undone
hard not to laugh about it now, but Korn once promised relief to rock fans tired of bloodless, radio-ready, alt-rock and manufactured pop Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Imperial Vipers - Jewels
influences such as Led Zep, Guns n' Roses and AC/DC mixed with impressive arrangement skills draw them annoyingly close to the finishing-line Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Avenged Sevenfold - Beast And The Harlot
In a world that can love The Darkness, these guys will surely thrive. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006
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Albums
Various - Kidulthood
Not only stands up, but steps right up and kicks you in the teeth Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Thomas Bromley - 'Two-Nine-Five'
we've all been subjected to it... Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Mary Jane - 'What I came here for' -
reeks of perfunctory punk rock Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
AlbumsMaia Sharp - 'Fine Upstanding Citizen'
An apron of an album and not a red dress.
Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Enablers - 'Output Negative Space'
Neurotic cats bring the noise... and words Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Alexander Tucker - Old Fog
cobwebbed and windy, prickles of mandolin and murmurs of drone thrown over Tucker's lonesome and sighing verses Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Spare Snare - Sort it for afterwards
gone is the gratingly lo-fi production of their earlier releases Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Secret Machines - Lightning Blue Eyes
Like a heavyweight boxer, the Secret Machines have us just where they want us Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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The Knife – Silent Shout
A few years ago, The Knife recorded a song called Heartbeats. It was a spangled slice of electropop, glad-sad and catchy, and a Swedish hit. But now it's 200... Read more »| 16 Apr 2006