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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AlbumsPseudo Nippon – Universal Pork Tai Chi
Alongside rib-tickling lingual mistranslations, you may now confidently add musician Pseudo Nippon to the list of curios produced by the head-knocking betwee... Read more »| 06 May 2011 -
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Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
Having sauntered to a top three position in the UK album charts, garnering a plethora of plaudits and sold-out shows along the way, Seattle’s Fleet Fox... Read more »| 05 May 2011 -
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Alain Johannes – Spark
When Alain Johannes' wife Natasha Shneider finally lost her battle with cancer in 2008 he set out to commemorate her with a collection of songs that he felt ... Read more »| 05 May 2011 -
AlbumsWild Beasts – Smother
If they weren't tired of the comparisons already, Wild Beasts' third studio album guarantees they will continue to be talked of in the same breath as Talk Ta... Read more »| 04 May 2011 -
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Three Trapped Tigers - Route One or Die
Fans of Hella, Lightning Bolt et al take note: on their debut Route One or Die, Londoners Three Trapped Tigers present a remarkably accomplished contribution... Read more »| 04 May 2011 -
AlbumsAmon Tobin – Isam
Ninja Tune's stalwart producer Amon Tobin remains something of an enigma – owing to a reputation largely indebted to the Brazilian's unique brand of sa... Read more »| 04 May 2011
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SinglesThe Dirty Dozen – May 2011
With the obvious exception of Beady Eye, this month’s singles pile gets a shed more lovin’ thrown at it than by our local rock stars of recent times. Well, summer time is on the way after all, a natural aphrodisiac as the Fresh Prince once claimed Read more »| 03 May 2011 -
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Citizens – Try Harder EP
Citizens have at last captured the sheer raw aggression of their live shows Read more »| 03 May 2011 -
Albums
Efrim Menuck – Plays "High Gospel"
As a founding member of both Godspeed You! Black Emperor and A Silver Mount Zion (under its many varied monickers) Efrim Menuck has spent 15 years as a centr... Read more »| 03 May 2011 -
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Enablers – Blown Realm and Stalled Explosions
Enablers’ mélange of stream-of-consciousness poetry and juddering math-rock was never going to make them stadium-fillers, but there was always s... Read more »| 03 May 2011 -
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Austra – Feel It Break
With a tense phantom-like clasp, Katie Stelmanis’ icy vocals disarm the listener, seeping under one’s skin like anaesthetic. Her operatic procliv... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
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James Pants - James Pants
James Pants' latest album was recorded in his parents' basement— his parents being two Presbyterian ministers— a fact which is both at home and a... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
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Cymbals – Unlearn
Cymbals are a strange proposition; their debut is at first listen a disjointed, punk-funk jamming session; sprawling, incoherent and angular. To be crude &nd... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
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Miles Kane – Colour of the Trap
Liverpool lad Miles Kane doesn’t just know how to make friends and influence people –he knows how to get them to appear on his record and all. Th... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
Singles
Various Artists – OIB Split Series Volume 4
Calories open this split with its most immediately accessible offering, three minutes of rousing rock with hooks-aplenty, an aesthetic continued by Tubelord&... Read more »| 02 May 2011