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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AlbumsLower Dens – Nootropics
Nootropics is named after a kind of drug which alters the brain's supply of neurochemicals in order to boost memory and intelligence; and right enough, it ... Read more »| 24 Apr 2012 -
AlbumsGeoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury – DROKK: Music Inspired By Mega-City One
Geoff Barrow of Portishead and film score composer Ben Salisbury have created something truly original in DROKK, their soundtrack for Mega-City One, home o... Read more »| 20 Apr 2012 -
Singles
Forget Me Not ft. Neo – What Were You Gonna Say?
A new electronic label based in Edinburgh, Diamond & Raw have looked beyond the capital for their first release. Production talent is courtesy of Brist... Read more »| 19 Apr 2012 -
AlbumsAnathema – Weather Systems
Anathema's early contributions to doom metal are easy to disregard when they've been riding on the soft rock train with such grace for so long. If 2010's W... Read more »| 19 Apr 2012 -
AlbumsUfomammut – Oro: Opus Primum
Ufomammut have been significant players in a well-populated heavy metal sect for some time now. Honourable disciples of sludge, these Italians are ever-dev... Read more »| 17 Apr 2012 -
Albums
Cancer Bats – Dead Set on Living
Some fans may be pleased to know that the slow-burning artiness of Cancer Bats' 2010 offering Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones is dropped for a slicker, mor... Read more »| 17 Apr 2012
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Albums
Kassidy – One Man Army
It’s always easy to pick on a soft target. But, just why Kassidy seem to have provoked such vitriol in certain corners of the music community is perpl... Read more »| 13 Apr 2012 -
Albums
North Atlantic Oscillation – Fog Electric
It's fitting that North Atlantic Oscillation’s second album, Fog Electric, was produced by Tony Doogan, best known for his production work for Mogwai... Read more »| 11 Apr 2012 -
Ep
Whores – Ruiner EP
Let's get this out of the way: Whores' debut release is completely blunt and confrontational. The sleazy bassline which dominates first track Daddy's Money... Read more »| 11 Apr 2012 -
Albums
Graham Coxon – A+E
Created as a conscious response to the burn-out he experienced touring 2009’s brilliant and meticulously crafted The Spinning Top, A+E finds Coxon embr... Read more »| 11 Apr 2012 -
Albums
James Ross – Chasing the Sun
This seven-movement suite from Caithness composer/pianist James Ross, initially commissioned for the Blas festival, retells a journey along the north coast... Read more »| 10 Apr 2012 -
Albums
The Leg – An Eagle to Saturn
Rambunctious Edinburgh trio The Leg count Julian Cope among their fans, and indeed An Eagle to Saturn sounds in many ways like a throwback to the more eccen... Read more »| 10 Apr 2012 -
AlbumsPoliça – Give You The Ghost
Born from the sprawling indie-explosion Gayngs, duo Poliça have friends in high places, with their collaborative cohort Justin Vernon of Bon Iver fa... Read more »| 10 Apr 2012 -
Albums
Various Artists – Sea Monsters 2
Brighton’s One Inch Badge follow last year’s Sea Monsters scene sampler with Sea Monsters 2, and like most sequels, it’s a bulkier beast. ... Read more »| 10 Apr 2012 -
Albums
Alabama Shakes – Boys and Girls
The American south seems to imbue an indelible sense of itself upon the music made by its natives, that curious blend of country, rock ‘n’ roll,... Read more »| 09 Apr 2012