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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EpKassidy - The Rubbergum EP
There’s not enough music in Scotland that makes you want to slap your thigh and chew tobacco. Kassidy have managed to produce such sounds - dus... Read more »| 01 Feb 2010 -
SinglesThe Dirty Dozen - February, 2010
Chris Buckle invites The Vivian Girls back to his deluxe Glasgow mansion for a listen to February’s singles. “We could never be music reviewers!” they gasp. “We’re way too hard to please…” Read more »| 01 Feb 2010 -
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Brian Jonestown Massacre - Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?
Perhaps the BJM's most motley selection of songs to date, Who Killed Sgt. Pepper? finds Anton Alfred Newcombe embracing both stylistic eclecticism an... Read more »| 01 Feb 2010 -
EpOno Palindromes - The Cum EP
With today's guitar clutching kids variously assimilating the sounds of Vampire Weekend, Klaxons or the Arctic Monkeys, the good ship Punk currently finds it... Read more »| 29 Jan 2010 -
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Holly Miranda - The Magician's Private Library
To enlist a name like Dave Sitek to produce your solo debut isn't the no-strings guarantee of success you might expect it to be. Because while the TV... Read more »| 28 Jan 2010 -
AlbumsThe Unwinding Hours - The Unwinding Hours
After the frustrating demise of Aereogramme under the pressure of the commercial flatline, any return to the music industry for singer Craig B and guitarist ... Read more »| 28 Jan 2010
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Field Music - Field Music (Measure)
It's been three years since Field Music announced their hiatus, and we'd be the first to warmly welcome them back to our stereos and stages - if they'd actua... Read more »| 28 Jan 2010 -
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Thee Silver Mt. Zion - Kollaps Tradixionales
More than a decade after we first saw founding member Efrim Menuck stepping out of the shadow of Godpeed You! Black Emperor, Kollaps Tradixionales sh... Read more »| 27 Jan 2010 -
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Massive Attack - Heligoland
Massive Attack’s long-awaited fifth album – their first in seven years – feels more a spiritual successor to the all-star melting pot of UN... Read more »| 27 Jan 2010 -
AlbumsMusée Mécanique - Hold This Ghost
Taking their name from a curious Californian music-box museum (and conceived in a marginally more prosaic setting, an antique arcade museum), Musée M&... Read more »| 27 Jan 2010 -
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Koss - Ancient Rain
The problem with ambient is that it’s hard to find the time to listen to it. Music is now available on any platform, is truly portable and is almost al... Read more »| 27 Jan 2010 -
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Tom Stephan - Nervous Nitelife
Those with a keen interest in tribal and progressive house will perhaps recognise Tom Stephan's pseudonym, Superchumbo, under which he was a stalwart... Read more »| 27 Jan 2010 -
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Errors - Come Down With Me
Errors' ‘post-electro’ pigeonhole is becoming a little ill-fitting, although the immediacy of Come Down With Me’s starting salvo might init... Read more »| 26 Jan 2010 -
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Yeasayer - Odd Blood
When Yeasayer hit their groove they're virtually untouchable as a creative force. It's when they get bogged down in that trippy, sludgy quick sand that we sw... Read more »| 26 Jan 2010 -
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These New Puritans - Hidden
Heralded as a masterpiece upon its release in 2005, Liars' Drum's Not Dead often finds itself in a laundry list of esoteric influences for any number of youn... Read more »| 26 Jan 2010