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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AlbumsReverend & The Makers - A French Kiss In The Chaos
Jon McClure is on the ropes, so to speak. The self-proclaimed heavyweight champ of his own ego has taken a fair battering over the last year, ostensibly as s... Read more »| 07 Jul 2009 -
AlbumsThe Stupids - The Kids Don't Like It
Surely the greatest musical proposition ever to hail from Suffolk – not that The Darkness and Tim Westwood present much of a challenge – John Pee... Read more »| 06 Jul 2009 -
SinglesDjango James & The Midnight Squires - Hurricane
Django James fancies himself as a fast-living ingénue, and his band’s debut single, Hurricane (sample lyric: “my eyes are rolling backward... Read more »| 06 Jul 2009 -
SinglesThe High Plane Drifters - Sweet Poppy Jean
Whatever else you might think of their gleefully inept garage shtick, you can’t say the High Plane Drifters haven’t swotted up on their rock heri... Read more »| 06 Jul 2009 -
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Hercules & Love Affair - Sidetracked
New York DJ Andy Butler’s Hercules & Love Affair preceded the current disco vogue with first single Classique #2 in early 2007. Their subsequent LP... Read more »| 03 Jul 2009 -
AlbumsOneida - Rated O
As a triple-CD set released as the second instalment of a triptych of albums, Rated O could either have turned out an epic listen or an indulgent d... Read more »| 02 Jul 2009
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Billy Talent - III
At the minute, Canada is ludicrously fertile territory for new bands; everywhere you turn, another one sprouts up, seemingly fully formed ('What's that? The ... Read more »| 02 Jul 2009 -
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Clark - Totems Flare
Clark’s third album follows a similar path to recent glitch-hop pioneers such as Mark Pritchard’s Harmonic 313 and rising Glaswegian star Hudson ... Read more »| 01 Jul 2009 -
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Lupen Crook and the Murderbirds - The Lost Belongings EP
Rhetoric, image and ideals are no consolation in the absence of tunes. Reading between the lines of a press release strewn with hyperbole and outsider orator... Read more »| 01 Jul 2009 -
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Kong - Snake Magnet
Every city has its fair share of nutters, but trust Manchester to churn out a trio who are both unhinged and musically brilliant. With their scuzzy, down-tun... Read more »| 01 Jul 2009 -
Singles
Mastodon's Dirty Dozen – July, 2009
Our Music Editor sits down with prog metal monoliths Mastodon to devour a box of Tunnock's Tea Cakes and sift through July’s singles Read more »| 01 Jul 2009 -
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Sixty Watt Bayonets - Pounding Hearts, Fighting Words
Vocally similar to an English version of now defunct Glasgow outfit Bad Dancer, the Sixty Watt Bayonet singer's tunefulness is questionable at points, lack o... Read more »| 01 Jul 2009 -
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November's Doom - Into Night's Requiem Infernal
For sure, death/doom is an unusual amalgam of two already esoteric genres. Add to that the grandiose barkings of November's Doom founder member Paul Kuhr and... Read more »| 30 Jun 2009 -
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Celan - Halo
This was an ambitious project from the off: Ari Benjamin Meyers of legendary Germans Einstürzende Neubauten and Chris Spencer of red-throated New York r... Read more »| 30 Jun 2009 -
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El Dog - The Lamps of Terrahead
This is a pleasant surprise. Seemingly picking up the torch laid down during the unfortunate demise of Aerogramme, El Dog don't so much wear their hearts on ... Read more »| 30 Jun 2009