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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AlbumsPissed Jeans - King of Jeans
Pissed Jeans are pissed off. Pissed off that they're becoming the white collar drones they swore to Tyler Durden they’d never be. Pissed off about havi... Read more »| 03 Aug 2009 -
Albums
Nodzzz - Nodzzz
For some, music is a very serious subject. Just ask your average self-harming, old-school Nine Inch Nails fan or the straight-edge guys that tossed coffee on... Read more »| 03 Aug 2009 -
Singles
We The Faceless - Isle Of Dogs
Isle Of Dog's dirty, chugging riff, sluggishly bursts into life like a fat man hopping through a ring of fire. It is meaty, I'll give it that, but once you g... Read more »| 03 Aug 2009 -
AlbumsInMe - Herald Moth
Having existed for some 13 years and counting, InMe’s fourth full length follows on from Daydream Anonymous, the Essex quartet's most critically acclai... Read more »| 31 Jul 2009 -
SinglesThe Dirty Dozen - August, 2009
This month's CD stack runs the gamut from East Neuk folk to South London hip-hop. Nick Mitchell packs his earphones for the journey Read more »| 31 Jul 2009 -
AlbumsThe xx – xx
If ‘spectral pop’ is to be the tag that follows London quartet The xx and their debut album, then they can probably rest easy as it’s not e... Read more »| 30 Jul 2009
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James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players - Folk Songs
A deliberate reaction to recent folk-mutations, Folk Songs sees James Yorkston take time out from his work with The Athletes to record eleven traditional tra... Read more »| 30 Jul 2009 -
AlbumsSir Vincent Lone - Troubadour Heart
Jackie Leven kills off his musical pseudonym Sir Vincent Lone and consequently produces a ‘posthumous’ album that’s actually better than th... Read more »| 30 Jul 2009 -
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Yim Yames - A Tribute To George Harrison
It may appeal most to devoted My Morning Jacket fans, but this six song requiem for George Harrison deserves a wider audience. Recorded solo and acousticall... Read more »| 29 Jul 2009 -
Singles
Kasms - Absent Without Leave/Murmur
London Quartet get dark with impressive double A-side. Read more »| 29 Jul 2009 -
Singles
Pastels/Tenniscoats – Vivid Youth / About You
The pairing of Glasgow indie darlings The Pastels with Japanese avant-gardists Tenniscoats might seem like an oddly exotic match-up. But in actual fact Steph... Read more »| 28 Jul 2009 -
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Lovvers - OCD Go Go Go Girls
The plot of Dan Brown’s forthcoming crime-against-literature/bestseller is top secret, but I reckon I’ve figured out the subject of investigation... Read more »| 28 Jul 2009 -
Singles
Lonely Ghosts - Come Down From The Mountain/Ghosts of
Solo effort from Brighton musician, formerly of Help She Can't Swim Read more »| 28 Jul 2009 -
Singles
Mariachi El Bronx - Cell Mates
Unless The Jonas Brothers are anonymously working on a double album of folk-inspired death metal, this is undoubtedly the most unusual musical alter-ego of 2... Read more »| 27 Jul 2009 -
Albums
Jack Rose and the Black Twig Pickers - Jack Rose and the Black Twig Pickers
With the recent resurgence in nu-folk (Sufjan Stevens, Devendra Banhart), alt-folk (Iron and Wine) and anti-folk (David Cronenberg’s Wife), you’... Read more »| 27 Jul 2009