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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AlbumsPaul Haig – Relive
If shock and awe was the plan, this is certainly mission accomplished. Read more »| 23 Oct 2009 -
AlbumsLoch Lomond/The Builders and the Butchers - Split 12"
Demonstrating Scottish label Song By Toad’s talent-spotting credentials, this 12” combines two acts plucked from Portland’s teeming music s... Read more »| 23 Oct 2009 -
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The Gothenburg Address - The Gothenburg Address
The Gothenburg Address have two on guitars, one on bass, one on drums and zero on vocals; looks like it’s time to dig out the Post-Rock Thesaurus. So, ... Read more »| 23 Oct 2009 -
AlbumsSufjan Stevens/Osso - Run Rabbit Run
Enjoy Your Rabbit occupies a unique place in Sufjan Stevens’ discography due to its Chinese calendar (rather than US geography) theme and a glitchy ele... Read more »| 23 Oct 2009 -
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Laura Gibson - Beasts of Season
For all its organic charms, this is a record destined to skim the ears as late night silence-filler Read more »| 23 Oct 2009 -
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Cuddly Shark - Cuddly Shark
This album would make more sense if it was made by a group of long-haired, intensely trendy, drug-hungry young dudes from Brooklyn or Austin, Texas, and if i... Read more »| 23 Oct 2009
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AlbumsConverge - Axe to Fall
The undisputed kings of modern progressive hardcore Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
AlbumsFuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Arriving hot on the heels of last year’s gloriously hypnotic skull-rattling debut Street Horrrsing, the quick turnaround of Fuck Buttons’ second ... Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
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Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
If La Roux and her silly quiff and slices of radio-friendly synth-pop hark back to the frivolity of the early eighties, Cold Cave summon up the darker spirit... Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
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North Atlantic Oscillation - Callsigns EP
Edinburgh trio's introductory EP whets the appetite for an already recorded debut album Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
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Molina & Johnson - Molina & Johnson
Molina & Johnson sound like investment bankers. I don’t just mean that their ampersand-friendly stage name bears resemblance to high-flying/brough... Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
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2562 - Unbalance
It’s dubstep, but not as Streatham or Croydon would know it. This second album from the Hague-based 2562 takes the blueprint of monstrous, murky bass, ... Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
Ep
Wowl! - Three Hits EP
German synth-rockers Wowl! clearly enjoy being an anomaly. Three Hits' opener The Black Ark cuts a dark, brooding figure that grooves to the pound of jagged ... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
Singles
I Was a King – Norman Bleik
Let’s cut to the chase, I Was a King want to be Teenage Fanclub. In fact, so much do the Norwegian ensemble yearn to slip inside the Glaswegian lumina... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
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Pumajaw - Featherdown Quilt
The latest offering from the now Fife-based enigmas is a far cry from the neo-folk scene they have been so uncomfortably shoehorned into by baffled listeners... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009