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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AlbumsAdam Green - Minor Love
While not every musician mellows with age – Nick Cave will be a horny corpse long before he’s labelled ‘mature’ – advancing yea... Read more »| 21 Dec 2009 -
Albums
Vampire Weekend - Contra
Vampire Weekend were easily one of the surprise success stories of 2008. Four white men trapped in black men trapped in white men’s bodies, playing mus... Read more »| 18 Dec 2009 -
AlbumsFreeland - COPE ™ Remixed
Adam Freeland previously courted critical acclaim with COPE ™ (OK, so not in these pages - ed), managing to lure rock luminaries as disparate as Gerald... Read more »| 16 Dec 2009 -
AlbumsThe Hussy's - Japanese Graffiti
Never since Bush have a British band seemed so in thrall to the sounds of American rock. If you can forgive that vexatious inverted comma that pops u... Read more »| 16 Dec 2009 -
Singles
Benjamin Shaw - I Got the Pox, the Pox is What I Got
In an age when digital technology has made pristine sound quality available to anyone with a decent laptop, going lo-fi has become a statement in itself: I'm... Read more »| 15 Dec 2009 -
Albums
Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
“True” black metal seems to exist in a vacuum, a self-referential singularity that praises tradition over novelty, sameness over innovation. On t... Read more »| 14 Dec 2009
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Singles
Meursault - William Henry Miller Pt. 1 & 2
Meursault have had a good 2009: they’ve grown without losing lustre and garnered wide critical praise (including a place in our Scottish albums of the ... Read more »| 11 Dec 2009 -
AlbumsSte McCabe - Murder Music
The only problem with Murder Music is its self-Godwination, to steal a phrase. Linking Christianity and Islam with Nazism, as per the cover art and non-music... Read more »| 10 Dec 2009 -
AlbumsThe Xcerts - Live At King Tut's
The Xcerts' debut album In The Cold Wind We Smile seems to have struck a chord with critics and wide-eyed teens across the country; their energetic nuggets o... Read more »| 08 Dec 2009 -
Reviews
Burnsong Winners' Concert, Scottish Parliament, 30 November
The great thing about the Burnsong songwriting competition is the nature of the prize. There's a chance to gig at Parliament, some exposure too, but most of ... Read more »| 04 Dec 2009 -
Albums
The Stark Palace - The Stark Palace
Thank God there are still people making albums like this. Straddling the divide between avant-garde lunacy and controlled madness in a way that would make Ca... Read more »| 02 Dec 2009 -
Albums
Various Artists - The Tolbooth Sessions
Did the Large Hadron Collider trigger some kind of quantum boson explosion while we weren't looking? Has some mad scientist retrofitted a DeLorean with a flu... Read more »| 02 Dec 2009 -
Albums
Various - A Sort of Homecoming: The Best of New Scottish Music
Billing itself as an alternative take on this year’s Homecoming celebrations, Fourtrak’s opportunistic collection of new Scottish talent is disap... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
Singles
El Susio Dozenza - December 2009
As the rain batters down on the streets of Glasgow, Ryan Drever seeks refuge in Mariachi El Bronx's tour bus as they trawl through December's singles to find the good, the bad and the next Kenny G. Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
Ep
Tabasco Fiasco - One EP
In Tabasco Fiasco and their equally inspired contemporaries, Super Adventure Club, Livingston has – somewhat surprisingly – managed to nurture tw... Read more »| 30 Nov 2009