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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AlbumsPatrick 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 -
AlbumsMachine Head – Unto The Locust
For a band who’ve been given their fair share of flak for changing with the times, you have to at least hand it to Machine Head for continuing their un... Read more »| 21 Sep 2011 -
AlbumsScreaming Trees – Last Words: The Final Recordings
Having bookended the ‘grunge era’ with the albums Sweet Oblivion and Dust, yet failing to capitalise on the situation, Screaming Trees officially... Read more »| 21 Sep 2011 -
AlbumsWake the President – Zumutung!
Channelling their Josef K, Orange Juice and Arab Strap infused sound through an increasingly discordant frequency, Wake the President to and fro between thri... Read more »| 21 Sep 2011 -
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Big Troubles – Romantic Comedy
New Jersey boys Big Troubles are bang on trend, sharing space with the likes of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and surf-pop darlings The Drums, taking ins... Read more »| 21 Sep 2011 -
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We Were Promised Jetpacks – In the Pit of the Stomach
If you name your second album In The Pit Of The Stomach, anything less than gut-punching is going to disappoint. Opener Circles And Squares is a long way fro... Read more »| 21 Sep 2011
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Blueflint – Maudy Tree
Blueflint's debut album, High Bright Morning, was deservedly lauded for its assured rustic charm. Maudy Tree draws, like its predecessor, upon bluegrass and ... Read more »| 21 Sep 2011 -
AlbumsNosferatu Pharmaceuticals – Banishes Groundless Fear, Wretchedness and Thoughts of Self Destruction
The Wasp, EDP’s most (in)famous synthesizer, has been a staple of bizarro electronica for over thirty years, but it’s doubtful that anyone has ma... Read more »| 21 Sep 2011 -
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The John Knox Sex Club – Raise Ravens
At a mere six tracks long, this second album from Glasgow’s John Knox Sex Club packs its weight within its densely layered, yet loose recordings. Compa... Read more »| 20 Sep 2011 -
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Dum Dum Girls – Only In Dreams
On their second outing, Los Angeles’ Dum Dum Girls absorb themselves with a clutch of more mature concerns than evidenced by their no-frills debut I Wi... Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
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Roots Manuva – 4everevolution
A Rodney Hylton Smith full-length usually comes with a guarantee of three things – rhymes that vary from the profound to the inexplicable, a hefty dose... Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
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Teletextile – Glass
It’s difficult to fault Pamela Martinez’s Brooklyn-based Teletextile project in terms of craftsmanship. The songs here are stitched together from... Read more »| 16 Sep 2011 -
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Obake – Obake
In Japanese folklore, an obake can either be a ghost or a shapeshifter, but no matter what definition you choose to adopt it’s an apt moniker for this ... Read more »| 16 Sep 2011 -
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Zweizz & Joey Hopkins – Zweizz & Joey Hopkins
Those who caught Zweizz on his Ulver opening slot recently can testify that he is not a force to be taken lightly, prone as he is to pouring sinister white n... Read more »| 16 Sep 2011 -
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Pombagira - Iconoclast Dream
Way back in ’96, San Jose stoners Sleep recorded an album by the name of Dopesmoker and, while they weren’t too pleased with the label run-around... Read more »| 16 Sep 2011