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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SinglesThe Research - The Hard Times
Like one of the better Nick Hornby novels in song form Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
SinglesThe Noisettes - Scratch Your Name
they never quite manage to make the artistic leap from sounding competent to actually delivering something you could fall in love with Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
SinglesWeen - Gabrielle
the perfect song with which to celebrate the start of summer Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Singles
Graham Coxon - You & I
The most grown-up single he's done? Maybe, but never fear, it's still got its scruffy edges Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Down the Tiny Steps - Aye Spy
They have the enviable backing of the Fence collective Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
SinglesDirty Pretty Things - Deadwood
Carl Barat may be branching out with Dirty Pretty Things but all he's uncovered is rotting deadwood Read more »| 15 Jul 2006
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Singles
1990's - You Made Me Like It
...and i thought the 1980s was the decade music forgot... Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Albums
Tunng - Comments Of The Inner Chorus
If British folksong had started out this boring, no one would have bothered to teach it to their kids Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Albums
Thursday - A City By The Light Divided
Best left to angry grounded teenagers Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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The Divine Comedy - Victory for the Comic Muse
A classy offering from a classy songwriter Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Albums
Shooting at Unarmed Men - Yes! Tinnitus!
The overall impression is something akin to a punk rock 'Weekend at Bernie's' Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Jack Adaptor - 'Road Rail River'
Broken Talk is a rare highlight in an otherwise mediocre album Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Ian Love - 'Ian Love'
They're just the thing to carry you through a night already too full with feeling
Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Capulet - The World Is A Tragic World, But There Is Grace All Around Us, So Attend To The Grace
The avant-garde becomes the ordinary pretty fast in these latter days Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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BC Camplight - Hide, Run Away
Brian Christinzio has composed an album of effortless keyboard-driven indie pop: a sugar-kissed tryst with Ben Folds, Teenage Fanclub and Todd Rundgren Read more »| 15 Jul 2006