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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AlbumsDark Buddha Rising – Inversum
Following on from 2013's sprawling Dakhmandal, Finland's Dark Buddha Rising return with a new lineup for fifth LP Inversum. It's an album of two halves; comp... Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
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Girl Band – Holding Hands With Jamie
Having checked that yes, this is an album – and not a cake made by hyper-active children with every conceivable ingredient thrown somewhere in the gene... Read more »| 08 Sep 2015 -
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Glen Hansard – Didn't He Ramble
Didn’t He Ramble is Glen Hansard’s second solo release, but far from his second outing. He’s recorded with The Frames and The Swell Season ... Read more »| 07 Sep 2015 -
AlbumsNicolas Godin – Contrepont
Quite mad and all the better for it, the solo debut from the Air man is a dizzying journey down the rabbit hole of his crazed imagination. Contrepont plays w... Read more »| 07 Sep 2015 -
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Blacklisters – Adult
Less a band, more of a bludgeon. Blacklisters’ songs crunch and lacerate like solid wooden clubs, mutilated with rusted nails. Opener Shirts swiftly ac... Read more »| 04 Sep 2015 -
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Shannon and the Clams – Gone by the Dawn
If breaking up is so very hard to do, then Gone by the Dawn finds early garage rock revivalists Shannon and the Clams gathered around the jukebox, drowning t... Read more »| 04 Sep 2015
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Slim Twig – Thank You For Stickin' With Twig
Slim Twig’s first new material since signing to DFA is a cheeky middle finger to the popular canon. Literally: after he’s done chastising Beatles... Read more »| 04 Sep 2015 -
AlbumsCarbs – Joyous Material Failure
Newly formed collaboration Carbs sees Jonnie (Common) and James (Conquering Animal Sound) come together to celebrate the daily disappointments of modern life... Read more »| 04 Sep 2015 -
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Helena Hauff – Discreet Desires
An established DJ, Helena Hauff has earned a reputation for pummeling dancefloors with her jagged, hardware-oriented techno, so it’s little surprise th... Read more »| 04 Sep 2015 -
AlbumsIntroverted Dancefloor – Introverted Dancefloor
Not nearly as introspective as the eponymous album title would have you believe, Bevan Smith’s latest project as Introverted Dancefloor is restrained, ... Read more »| 04 Sep 2015 -
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Darwin Deez – Double Down
Brooklyn indie-pop oddball Darwin Deez cites influences for his sophomore release as diverse as The Beatles, Nietzsche, Ridley Scott and the Indian spiritual... Read more »| 04 Sep 2015 -
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Ubre Blanca – The Sadist EP
Sinister, portentous, unsettling… From the artwork's red skull to each isolated synth motif, the John Carpenter/Claudio Simonetti trappings of the Gla... Read more »| 03 Sep 2015 -
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Julia Holter – Have You In My Wilderness
It’s a pertinent circumstance that Julia Holter’s plush new album arrives just in time for the passing of summer and the slow-crawl in to the dar... Read more »| 03 Sep 2015 -
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Golden Void – Berkana
How big are your riffs? In the case of Bay Area quartet Golden Void, the answer is delivered without apology; all seven tracks comprising Berkana hark back t... Read more »| 03 Sep 2015 -
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Kurt Vile – b’lieve I’m goin down
Perhaps the natural meeting point between the gloomy Smoke Ring For My Halo and 2013’s more robust Wakin On A Pretty Daze, b’lieve I’m goin... Read more »| 03 Sep 2015