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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AlbumsMolina & Johnson - Molina & Johnson
Molina & Johnson sound like investment bankers. I don’t just mean that their ampersand-friendly stage name bears resemblance to high-flying/brough... Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
Albums2562 - Unbalance
It’s dubstep, but not as Streatham or Croydon would know it. This second album from the Hague-based 2562 takes the blueprint of monstrous, murky bass, ... Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
EpWowl! - Three Hits EP
German synth-rockers Wowl! clearly enjoy being an anomaly. Three Hits' opener The Black Ark cuts a dark, brooding figure that grooves to the pound of jagged ... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
Singles
I Was a King – Norman Bleik
Let’s cut to the chase, I Was a King want to be Teenage Fanclub. In fact, so much do the Norwegian ensemble yearn to slip inside the Glaswegian lumina... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
Singles
Pumajaw - Featherdown Quilt
The latest offering from the now Fife-based enigmas is a far cry from the neo-folk scene they have been so uncomfortably shoehorned into by baffled listeners... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
Ep
Sound of Guns – Elementary of Youth EP
It takes a brave fool to start an indie rock’n’roll band these days. The long overdue demise of Oasis should have served as a warning that lad ro... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009
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Ep
Broken Records - Out On The Water EP
After all the column inches dedicated to them, it’s easy to forget that Broken Records are a relatively new band. A single album into their careers, an... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
Albums
Pelican - What We All Come to Need
What We All Come to Need could be construed as an assuming title. When ascribing the idea of necessity to one’s own project, one risks abject failure, ... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
Albums
The Hidden Cameras - Origin: Orphan
By all means applaud the ambition, just don’t expect it to have any substance Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
AlbumsOmar Rodriguez-López - Xenophanes
The solo work of Omar Rodriguez-López can vary wildly from sheer noise (see Despair) to records considered as Mars Volta releases in everything but n... Read more »| 20 Oct 2009 -
Albums
Espers – III
If any genre of music epitomized the late 1960s it was psychedelic folk. The meeting of acoustic guitars and trippy boundary pushing seems rooted in those fe... Read more »| 20 Oct 2009 -
Albums
Daniel Johnston - Is And Always Was
Iconic outsider artist upgrades from the bedroom to the studio to pleasingly excellent effect. Read more »| 20 Oct 2009 -
Albums
Melvins - Chicken Switch
There is nothing you could dance to on this ‘remix’ album, not a single person with a ‘DJ’ prefix on the tracklisting. Instead, the M... Read more »| 20 Oct 2009 -
Albums
Asobi Seksu - Acoustic At Olympic Studios
Acoustic reworkings aren't often worth the effort, either too similar to their original incarnations to warrant the additional labour or misguided and ill-f... Read more »| 20 Oct 2009 -
Ep
Le Reno Amps - The Stand Off EP
Le Reno Amps nail their colours firmly to the mast of 'clever irony' with EP opener The Stand Off, a self-aware alt-country/indie mash-up that sounds like S... Read more »| 20 Oct 2009