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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AlbumsAnimal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
God only knows where they go from here... Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
AlbumsAndrew Bird - Noble Beast
Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird follows 2007's critical success Armchair Apocrypha with an intricate beauty of an LP that's by turns introspective and inst... Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
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Dälek - Gutter Tactics
Like an industrial hip-hop soundtrack to your worst (or favourite) Lynchian nightmare, New Jersey duo Dälek prophesise the apocalypse via the medium o... Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
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Fight Like Apes - ...And the Mystery of the Golden Medallion
Ireland’s Fight Like Apes splatter their debut album on an unsuspecting record-buying public this month like Day-Glo paint. Singer Maykay makes like Jemina P... Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
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PPP - Abundance
It's been just over ten years since The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, an album that didn't so much take the tropes of R n' B and subvert them, as rip up the r... Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
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Nickel Eye – The Time Of The Assassins
A satisfying work of homespun folk-rock Read more »| 07 Jan 2009
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Scott Weiland – “Happy” in Galoshes
Although known more for his excesses than his music for too long now, it seems Scott Weiland had a weighty pop rock album in him all along. With guest appear... Read more »| 07 Jan 2009 -
Singles
Kevin Rudolf feat. Lil Wayne - Let it Rock
Pop music is a peculiar beast: sometimes overly formulaic, written by hacks for any number of identikit 'stars', mixed in such a way as to wring every last d... Read more »| 06 Jan 2009 -
AlbumsDualist - We Are You
Ostensibly, the title of Dualist’s debut album - We Are You - is the type of rote everyman declaration frequently uttered by new kids on the bl... Read more »| 06 Jan 2009 -
AlbumsThe Bronx - The Bronx (III)
A solid, if acutely predictable, rock album Read more »| 05 Jan 2009 -
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Women - Women
It's a bit tragic when something with such an awesome cover turns out to be so disappointing Read more »| 02 Jan 2009 -
Singles
The Qemists feat. Wiley - Dem Na Like Me
The Qemists are a Brighton-based production gang who dispense the sort of noisy, thrashy d’n’b popularised by Pendulum. Their last single, Lost W... Read more »| 02 Jan 2009 -
AlbumsThe Irrepressibles - From the Circus to the Sea
Soundtracking Shelly Love's film of forgotten circus players, Jamie McDermott assembles an orchestra to fulfil his fantastic musical dreams. Inter-song motif... Read more »| 02 Jan 2009 -
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The Dirty Dozen - January, 2009
The time for Slade and Wizzard has passed: it's new music we crave. Nick Mitchell rates the first batch of 2009. Read more »| 01 Jan 2009 -
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Black Canvas - We Fear Not
These two MCs from Gloucester have tried to make a breaks reggae cocktail and on a passive level it works, but on other levels the single is inane and forget... Read more »| 30 Dec 2008