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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AlbumsXRABIT & DMG$ - Hello World
Rap producers are often guilty of selling their souls at the altar of the recording studio, gladly embracing the mixing desk as a means to tweak their artist... Read more »| 26 Feb 2009 -
AlbumsJulie Dorion - I Can’t Wonder What You Did With Your Day
Frustratingly, Julie Dorion spends too much of I Can’t Wonder What You Did with Your Day amidst the interminable whimsy of her kindergarten lyricism an... Read more »| 26 Feb 2009 -
Albums
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band - Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band
The most immediate thing about this record is a frolicking yelp, somewhere between Steve Bays and Tim Harrington - high, stabbing vocals which are quite inap... Read more »| 26 Feb 2009 -
Singles
Me My Head - Night Is On Fire
Gary Numan's Deadliner is a song inspired by nightmares. Although Night Is On Fire is similarly dystopian, it conveys, rather, the impotent outrage... Read more »| 26 Feb 2009 -
AlbumsRed Light Company – Fine Fascination
Red Light Company make no bones about the fact that they’re here “to make a huge record”. And with their debut they have fulfilled this aim... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Albums
Rodent Emporium - Music Without Fear Of Reprimand
Debut album from comedy punks Rodent Emporium. Read more »| 25 Feb 2009
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Singles
Bronto Skylift - Eagle/Falcon
What with the fashionable rise of happy-clappy dross à la the Knack-pilfering Ting Tings in recent times, it’s not often a two-piece like Bronto... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Albums
Rush - Retrospective III
It's Rush, for goodness' sake Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Singles
28 Costumes - This Band Has Eaten All Our Money
Dicing rhythms around from start to finish, 28 Costumes are a post-Arctic Monkeys indie band (can we say that yet?) who aren’t going to offer you an in... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
SinglesWavves - So Bored
Music fans of a certain age might remember this guy from the nineties called Beck. He made fuzzy, lo-fi, lazy-sounding stoner anthems that hid a wealth of id... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Albums
Mongrel - Better Than Heavy
There's a damning amount of empty political posturing on this album. As insightful as Hard-Fi about our country's social and political failings, this is a pe... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Albums
The Long Lost - The Long Lost
The romantic ideals that hippies espouse are often more appealing than hippies themselves; free love and flower power all sound fine in principle, but they'r... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
AlbumsThe Smoking Rolo Sideshow - Mucho Mojo Baby
With a fluctuating array of contributors and an eclectic melting-pot approach to songwriting, The Smoking Rolo Sideshow appear to be vying for the in-demand ... Read more »| 24 Feb 2009 -
Albums
De Rosa - Prevention
The Lanarkshire lads are comfortable where they are, no longer subservient to ‘obvious single’ pretensions. Read more »| 24 Feb 2009 -
Ep
Lindsay Sugden & The Storm - Lindsay Sugden & The Storm EP
At times rattly and percussive, at others, delicate and intricate - and that only accounts for Lindsay Sugden’s guitar playing which blends distinctly ... Read more »| 24 Feb 2009