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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SinglesVictoria & Jacob – With No Certainty
Do you like Ellie Goulding and Owl City? Me neither, but enough do to make them two of 2010’s breakthrough acts. Those same people will likely ... Read more »| 23 Mar 2010 -
AlbumsAudio Bullys – Higher Than The Eiffel
Purveyors of laddish dance music and grammatically incorrect pluralisation, Audio Bullys are back, and despite the mainstream success of dubstep in their abs... Read more »| 22 Mar 2010 -
Singles
Benni Hemm Hemm - Retaliate
Having stitched himself into Scotland’s alt-folk fabric (working with Withered Hand, Eagleowl and Alasdair Roberts amongst others), Retaliate is an ina... Read more »| 19 Mar 2010 -
EpTo Rococo Rot - Forwardness Fridays EP
The EP is an awkward conception, defined by what it's not: too long to be a single, too short to be an album. Even within this limited bracket, thoug... Read more »| 19 Mar 2010 -
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Burnt Island - Music and Maths EP
To Music and Maths, add a double period of English, for Burnt Island’s debut is a decidedly literary affair. Led by author Rodge Glass and partly inspi... Read more »| 19 Mar 2010 -
AlbumsBlack Francis - Nonstoperotik
Having reverted to his Pixies-era moniker of Black Francis in 2007 – in a move that fooled precisely no one – Nonstoperotik finds flaccid... Read more »| 18 Mar 2010
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Albums
Blood Red Shoes - Fire Like This
New album from unnervingly pretty Brighton duo, Blood Red Shoes. Read more »| 17 Mar 2010 -
AlbumsJosiah Wolf - Jet Lag
Those who unfairly balked at Eskimo Snow’s perceived middle-age spread would do well to skip Why? drummer Josiah Wolf’s first solo effort. Why?&r... Read more »| 15 Mar 2010 -
Albums
Ulrich Schnauss - Missing Deadlines (Selected Remixes)
What makes Missing Deadlines great is that, if you knew neither Ulrich Schnauss’ signature style nor any of the remixed original tracks, you’d be... Read more »| 15 Mar 2010 -
Albums
Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain't No Grave
In Rick Rubin, Johnny Cash found perhaps his most sympathetic producer and for the most part Ain't No Grave is as candid and bare-bones as anything from the ... Read more »| 15 Mar 2010 -
Albums
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Most musicians will never have to follow an album like Ys. Unwinding across three discs, the epic Have One On Me develops the ideas bubbling within its intim... Read more »| 10 Mar 2010 -
Albums
Broken Bells - Broken Bells
What do you get when you cross the creative force behind a soft-spoken indie/pop/alt country collective and a sonic whiz kid with a list of collaborators as ... Read more »| 09 Mar 2010 -
Albums
Cocos Lovers – Johannes
There’s an unquestionably familial feel to their debut album, rendering Johannes more of a songs-around-the-campfire piece Read more »| 06 Mar 2010 -
Albums
Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
Two years is clearly a long time in Laura Marling’s world. In the interim since Alas, I Cannot Swim, the Hampshire-born nu-folkster has gone from a hon... Read more »| 04 Mar 2010 -
Albums
Wooden Shjips - Vol. 2
Turns out that the ghosts of some 60s acid-casualties have possessed a modern day group of San Franciscans in order to have them to play tunes of a forty yea... Read more »| 04 Mar 2010