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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AlbumsBrontide – Sans Souci
Math-rock has lost its way somewhat in recent years, hamstrung by the need to develop an ever-more technically complex sound and compositional approach in or... Read more »| 21 Jun 2011 -
AlbumsGomez – Whatever's On Your Mind
Perhaps best known as the second-most preposterous winners of the Mercury Music Prize for their 1998 debut Bring it On (a list that M People will surely top ... Read more »| 21 Jun 2011 -
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Bong – Beyond Ancient Space
The opening of none-doomier Bong’s latest is truly breathtaking, an omnipresent drone from the bowels of the earth that grows and swells over an aeon w... Read more »| 21 Jun 2011 -
AlbumsKid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds - Gorilla Rose
Bo Bo Boogaloo is nothing if not a promising start, a vibrant spectacle that shows off a vast knowledge of krautrock and prog-friendly tenets and glues them ... Read more »| 21 Jun 2011 -
AlbumsWhite Heath – Take No Thought For Tomorrow
This Edinburgh-based quintet layer dark, sombre ballads with a diverse range of live instrumentation, incorporating strings, guitar, trombone and piano. Acco... Read more »| 16 Jun 2011 -
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Fink – Perfect Darkness
Transitioning from his role as a successful DJ and producer to that of Ninja Tune peddler of folk-inflected acoustica back in 2006, Fin 'Fink' Greenall&rsquo... Read more »| 13 Jun 2011
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Fucked Up – David Comes to Life
David Comes to Life is one tough nut to crack. A sprawling, 80-minute hardcore punk rock opera, its description alone makes it seem destined for disaster. An... Read more »| 13 Jun 2011 -
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Tellison – The Wages Of Fear
Now that our, admittedly feeble, Scottish summer is in full bloom it’s only right that shelves begin to fill with bright’n’breezy emotional... Read more »| 13 Jun 2011 -
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Dennis Hopper Choppers - Be Ready
There are fundamentally two sides to Ben Nicholls’ latest incarnation of DHC: that of the lonesome wanderer, singing forlorn desert-bleached odes to lo... Read more »| 08 Jun 2011 -
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We Are Enfant Terrible – Explicit Pictures
The debut from this French electro-indie trio comes across like a vaguely grumpy, morose version of Bis. Boy-girl vocals, shuffling disco beats, cheesy casio... Read more »| 07 Jun 2011 -
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The Mojo Fins – Shake the Darkness
Quite why the worlds of post-rock and sensitive singer-songwriter balladry don’t meet more often is an enigma, as The Mojo Fins’ documentation of... Read more »| 07 Jun 2011 -
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Das Contras – Das Contras
Sounding like the soundtrack to a bandito showdown at a seventies lounge party, opening ditty Reckless Phase may try to be the life and soul of the party but... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011 -
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Cults – Cults
The air of mystery surrounding New Yorker’s Cults has had the internet’s blogger brigade in somewhat of a frenzy, but just who are these fuzzy po... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011 -
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Elan Tamara - Organ EP
Elan Tamara is a Brit School graduate, but try not to hold it against her. Seems despite the institution’s strong track record for cultivating chart mo... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011 -
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BURNINGBeeS – goodseedbadsoil
Drifting and mingling in the nomadic manner, the musical projects of Neil Grant and Stuart Hobbs have been abundant, if short-lived. The former dabbled with ... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011