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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Albums3 Daft Monkeys - Social Vertigo
More of a novelty than a musical triumph Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
AlbumsWHY? - Alopecia
A much welcome respite – at least to these cynical lugs - from the Brit School's backslapping and the paperboy's class warrior 'realness', comes in the... Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
AlbumsA Silver Mt. Zion - 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons
Drums war with guitar and violin to create a pulpit for Menuck's convictive mantras Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
AlbumsMeshuggah - ObZen
That trademark throaty bass sound lurks behind the mayhem with brutal intent. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Singles
Tapes n Tapes - Hang Them All
A surging, limb-flinging offering from a band to be welcomed home like a long lost cousin. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Singles
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Cave hasn't lost his charm. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008
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Singles
Johnny Foreigner - Our Bipolar Friends
Catch "JoFo" before they either exhaust themselves or explode into flames Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
AlbumsBlack Francis - Svn Fngrs
Stands proundly in the Black Francis oeuvre. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Singles
Frightened Rabbit - Head Rolls Off
A bold new year's resolution made hymnal Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Singles
The Dirty Dozen - March
From soft-rock stadium rockers to pan-continental beat plunderers, Nick Mitchell rakes around The Skinny's mail bag for that golden single Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Albums
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Dig, Lazarus, Dig!! is too polished and preened to stagger down Cave's own self-made path of righteousness Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Singles
The Long Blondes - Century
If you can't stand reinvention in the name of chart-bound populism then this new century's definitely not for you... Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Singles
Yeasayer - Wait For The Summer
Will wedge your mind open to the possibility that even panpipes are acceptable in music Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Albums
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
An extraordinarily accomplished and thoroughly engaging piece of Mancunian songsmithery Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Singles
Land of Talk - Speak to Me Bones
A lot of fuss over nothing. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008