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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AlbumsSiskiyou – Keep Away The Dead
This second LP from indie-folk band Siskiyou finds a balance between soft reflective folk songs and angst-ridden stomp-alongs. Recorded mostly in the tiny to... Read more »| 28 Sep 2011 -
AlbumsJonnie Common – Deskjob
Deskjob is not, Jonnie Common has been keen to stress, a remix album. There’s no chopping and screwing here: instead, consider his role akin to Phil Sp... Read more »| 27 Sep 2011 -
AlbumsThe Dead Man's Waltz – The Dead Man's Waltz
Taking their cues from the more morbid side of life, The Dead Man’s Waltz don’t so much pen songs as craft twisted tales of betrayal, murder and ... Read more »| 27 Sep 2011 -
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Meg Baird – Seasons On Earth
Meg Baird makes the kind of pretty, but sad, singer-songwriter Americana folk that soothes the soul, even if it is sometimes too languid to conjure any lasti... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
AlbumsDJ Shadow – The Less You Know, The Better
Abandoning the goodtime crunk and tombola-plucked guests of 2007’s die-hard riling The Outsider, Josh Davis returns with a jukebox album, bound to at l... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
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Stephin Merritt – Obscurities
Stephin Merritt has described curating Obscurities an ‘agonising’ and ‘depressing’ experience, with most candidate tracks decreed obs... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011
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AlbumsM83 – Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
M83’s last album, Saturdays = Youth, was their biggest critical and commercial success to date. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, then, is a curveball. W... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
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Keith Top Of The Pops & His Minor UK Indie Celebrity All-Star Backing Band – Fuck You! I'm Keith Top Of The Pops
Clearly saturated in ramshackle influences such as Half Man Half Biscuit, The Fall and Carter USM (who feature here), Keith TOTP can't quite shake off the co... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
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Martyn – Ghost People
Dutch producer Martyn's Brainfeeder debut isn't the 'statement' record that some observers might have anticipated, nor does it represent a wholesale paradigm... Read more »| 22 Sep 2011 -
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Rustie – Glass Swords
As the comical specificity of labels like ‘aquacrunk’ suggests, it’s generally a futile enterprise to attempt to negotiate the bewilderingl... Read more »| 22 Sep 2011 -
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Martin John Henry – The Other Half of Everything
After the disappointing split of De Rosa on the back of their excellent second album Prevention, this first solo offering by frontman Martin John Henry is a ... Read more »| 22 Sep 2011 -
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Feist – Metals
Leslie Feist returns with the eagerly anticipated follow up to 2007’s The Reminder which, assisted by an iPod iteration that even today seems quite dat... Read more »| 22 Sep 2011 -
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dEUS – Keep You Close
Opinions on dEUS vary wildly. The band effectively divided their career in two when they went on hiatus early last decade only to return with a significantly... Read more »| 22 Sep 2011 -
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Wild Flag – Wild Flag
The latest noteworthy outfit to emerge from the US Pacific Northwest are something of a supergroup, combining members of Sleater-Kinney, Helium, Quasi and th... Read more »| 22 Sep 2011 -
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Patrick Kelleher and His Cold Dead Hands – Golden Syrup
This Dublin-based quintet have forged an industrial-tinged synthpop that brings to mind Robert Rental or early Depeche Mode. Despite the unmistakeable stamp ... Read more »| 21 Sep 2011