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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AlbumsSparrow and the Workshop – Spitting Daggers
Having only released their debut EP in mid-2009, here Sparrow and the Workshop are already with their second album proper. With each step they’ve grown... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
AlbumsChad VanGaalen – Diaper Island
Released last year, Women’s second album garnered almost as many plaudits for producer Chad VanGaalen – who cultivated an unsettling atmosphere p... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
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The Bookhouse Boys – Tales To Be Told
The Bookhouse Boys do not live in a happy world. From the gloomy swirl of Gone – which opens the London group's second long player – to the edgy ... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
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Destroyer – Kaputt
It would be easy to dismiss Kaputt as all surface, no feeling on first listen. Dan Bejar’s tenth album as Destroyer appropriates a side of eighties&rsq... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
AlbumsTom Vek – Leisure Seizure
Perhaps fed up with spending the last five years as a subject of those 'Whatever happened to…' conversations, Tom Vek returns. Although he spent 2005 ... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
AlbumsBoris – Heavy Rocks
That similarities exist between the 2011 and 2002 incarnations of Heavy Rocks is to be expected, but this release holds as much in common with all of Boris&r... Read more »| 24 May 2011
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You Already Know – Petrol Money
Let’s Fuck: hell of a way to kick off an album, right? Well, this blunt honesty fits well with everything about this four-piece. There’s no bulls... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
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U.S. Christmas – The Valley Path
That U.S. Christmas’ made a sizeable contribution to last year’s tribute to space-rock maestros Hawkwind won’t come as any surprise to anyo... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
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Night Noise Team – Slow Release
Night Noise Team launch Slow Release with real gusto, singer Sean Ormsby promising that they’ve “got something for you” on opener The Gift.... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
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Joan of Arc – Life Like
In the fifteenth century the French stacked up some logs and set fire to the heroine that would come to be known as Joan as Arc. Hundreds of years later it's... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
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Jacob Yates & the Pearly Gate Lock Pickers – Luck
This might be Jacob Yates & the Pearly Gate Lock Pickers’ debut full-length, but they’ve got hefty boots to fill, what with Uncle John & ... Read more »| 23 May 2011 -
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Battles – Gloss Drop
Losing a band member between albums is never easy, but Gloss Drop paints a picture of a group that has adjusted to the defection of Tyondai Braxton with rema... Read more »| 23 May 2011 -
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She's Hit – Pleasure
The debut LP from Glaswegian quintet She’s Hit is a narcotic brew of surf / garage and psychobilly that swaggers and spits from start to finish. The ov... Read more »| 19 May 2011 -
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Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi – Rome
That crafty varmint Danger Mouse (Brian Burton) done gone collaboratin' again; this time with Italian composer Daniele Luppi on a predominately instrumental ... Read more »| 16 May 2011 -
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Ramesses – Chrome Pineal
Whilst their hard work since their inception has to be admired, what has always served Ramesses the most is how timeless their music is. With cast-iron riffs... Read more »| 16 May 2011