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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AlbumsRose Windows – The Sun Dogs
This Seattle septet anchor their sound in the shamanistic explorations and bruising riffs of psych and stoner rock: the sonic texture of The Sun Dogs&nb... Read more »| 05 Jun 2013 -
AlbumsSerengeti – Kenny Dennis LP
Serengeti's last LP for Anticon, C.A.R., had a refreshing sense of fun and humour to its loosely-scribbled hip-hop beats, with Jel and Odd Nosdam joining Ser... Read more »| 05 Jun 2013 -
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Palms – Palms
Despite escalating popularity at the time they called it quits, there’s a feeling that ISIS – not wishing to "push past the point of a digni... Read more »| 05 Jun 2013 -
Singles
Dope Body survey June's singles
Prior to a night of fierce sweating, Baltimore noise-rockers (and March 'Track of the Month' champions) Dope Body try to muster some love for this month’s offerings, and debate whether or not that’s a marimba in there Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
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Congo Natty – Jungle Revolution
The press release for Jungle Revolution states that Congo Natty (aka Rebel MC) ‘sees jungle as a re-boot of roots reggae for a new century&rs... Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
AlbumsTunng – Turbines
Frontiersmen and women of the ‘folktronica’ movement, Tunng have long blended gentle, well-rounded folk melodies with morsels of twee electronic ... Read more »| 04 Jun 2013
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AlbumsSigur Rós – Kveikur
Loose and roaring, Brennisteinn – the opening gambit of Sigur Rós' seventh studio album – is the sound of the band getting nasty. Beneath ... Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
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Poppy Ackroyd – Escapement
After an initial release last year, this 7-track album of multi-tracked piano, violin and field recordings from Hidden Orchestra collaborator Poppy Ackroyd g... Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
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James Holden – The Inheritors
Having previously pushed the boundaries of techno on his 2006 debut, James Holden's long-awaited sophomore album delves even deeper into the rhythmic roots o... Read more »| 03 Jun 2013 -
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Bomb the Bass – In the Sun
Where 2008’s Future Chaos saw Bomb the Bass stripping away the clutter to deliver a sharp-edged, techno-tinged variant of their breakbeat/hip... Read more »| 03 Jun 2013 -
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Sorrow – Dreamstone
Bristol's Sorrow is at the forefront of the post-dubstep movement, taking cues from the more atmospheric, musical end of the Hyperdub spectrum; he is one of ... Read more »| 03 Jun 2013 -
AlbumsBoards of Canada – Tomorrow's Harvest
Tomorrow's Harvest finds the Sandison brothers turning their backs on the halcyon warmth of 2005's The Campfire Headphase to deliver an album ... Read more »| 31 May 2013 -
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Master Musicians of Bukkake – Far West
Having completed their Totem cycle of albums, everyone's favourite experimental psych-rock weirdos return with a new LP. It's still a decidedly con... Read more »| 31 May 2013 -
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Emika – DVA
A follow-up to her self-titled 2011 debut, Emika's DVA sees the artist collaborating with Hank Shocklee of The Bomb Squad on production duties, and reco... Read more »| 31 May 2013 -
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Gastric Band – Party Feel
As their moniker might imply, Glasgow's Gastric Band are tight. There is barely an ounce of fat on debut album Party Feel: a wild-eyed odyssey enco... Read more »| 31 May 2013