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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AlbumsWe Are Scientists - Crap Attack
a bulging sack of dorky delights Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
AlbumsJamiroquai - High Times: Singles 1992 - 2006
Musically, those high times were short-lived indeed Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Albums
Ben Folds - Supersunnyspeedgraphic, The LP
catchy, fun and completely bemusing. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Albums
Battle of Mice - A Day of Nights
The need for companionship often drives many to some kind of socially-encouraged insanity and needless to say, there has been much music born of this fact. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
AlbumsAcoustic Ladyland - Skinny Grin
One of the most interesting jazz influenced albums of recent years àterrifying, brutal and ultimately quite amazing. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Singles
Koop - Come To Me
Like a soundtrack to the greatest war-time drama ever. Buy it. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006
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Singles
(+44) - Lycanthrope (Polydor)
The fart jokes have gone and just maybe there's a hint of Alkaline Trio in the mix. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
SinglesOk Go - Here It Goes Again
Full of enormous hooks and tenacious choruses mixed with mock English accents. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Albums
Die! Die! Die! - Die! Die! Die!
Searing art-rock with occasional quiet moments, juxtaposed with frenetic punk blasts and crazed screeches. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Singles
Tapes 'n Tapes - Omaha
...distinct final-single-from-an-album kind of feel... Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Singles
Less Than Jake - P.S. Shock The World
The chorus protrudes from the middle of the track like some hideous flesh wound. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Ep
Kiddo - 135 Days EP
Kiddo create their own sound, built up from the dilettantish rhythms that seep into the lead guitar lines. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Singles
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - War Of The Worlds
sounds good for a while, then it just dies on itself. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Albums
Susurrus Station - 1,2 Unbuckle the Blue
Walks a tightrope between the obliquely poetic and the plain pretentious Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Yourcodenameis:milo - Print Is Dead Vol. 1
The results are often shocking. The Trapeze Artist is brutal and comes with chopped, heavy riffing and manic wails, yet features The Automatic. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006