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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AlbumsBorn Ruffians - Say It
With their 2008 debut album Red, Yellow and Blue, Canadian trio Born Ruffians eschewed derivative CYHSY comparisons by injecting some Monks-style silliness i... Read more »| 05 May 2010 -
SinglesThe Dirty Dozen - May 2010: Bronto Skylift Takeover
They're loud, they're fierce and with that we'd have guessed very opinionated. Paul Mitchell hauls May's singles to Bronto Skylift's Glasgow rehearsal room to find the duo endlessly fascinated by the dark art of the press release Read more »| 04 May 2010 -
AlbumsJim Kroft - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Jim Kroft is likely to be a new name to most readers. That's because the Highland native fled our shores at the first opportunity to be a kind of artist-in-r... Read more »| 04 May 2010 -
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Holy Fuck - Latin
Given the rampaging style favoured by electro-noise quartet, Holy Fuck, it’s perhaps unsurprising that their first two albums – whilst tinged wit... Read more »| 04 May 2010 -
AlbumsMeursault - All Creatures Will Make Merry
Meursault’s brilliant debut Pissing on Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues surprised us all by striding into the spotlight in 2008. Inevitably, follow-up L... Read more »| 04 May 2010 -
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Swimmer One - Dead Orchestras
Shirking expectations multiple times, Swimmer One are as difficult to pin down as a greased-up eel with a mysterious past. What starts in a vaguely disco-Edi... Read more »| 04 May 2010
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Optimo (Espacio) - Fabric 52
As the door closes on Optimo's Glasgow residency, the event is marked by their addition to Fabric's long running mix series. Read more »| 04 May 2010 -
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Gayngs - Relayted
Gayngs’ roots lie in, of all places, 10cc. Producer Ryan Olson started the project – which features members of Megafaun, Bon Iver, Doomtree, and ... Read more »| 03 May 2010 -
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Silver Columns - Yes And Dance
You'll read many reviews of this record emphasising the 2+2=5 surprise of The Pictish Trail and Adem teaming up to produce sleek disco music. In actual fact,... Read more »| 03 May 2010 -
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Stanley Odd - Oddio
The jury's still out on Scottish hip-hop. It's either a vibrant subculture that doesn't get the attention it deserves, or it's an oddity in itself, a geograp... Read more »| 03 May 2010 -
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Foals - Total Life Forever
Rightly or wrongly, 2008's debut Foals LP Antidotes – while well-received – was oft-described as a sort of cerebral nu-rave (as if a 'smarter Kla... Read more »| 30 Apr 2010 -
Singles
Atari Teenage Riot - Activate
Released to coincide with ATR's reunion tour (a reunion in which Alec Empire is the only original member – although Carl Crack has a good excuse by din... Read more »| 29 Apr 2010 -
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Cibelle - Las Venus Resort Palace Hotel
Leading with a cover of Dr. No theme Underneath the Mango Tree, pop-nut Cibelle shares 007’s cosmopolitan internationalism. Born in Brazil and ... Read more »| 29 Apr 2010 -
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Lazer Crystal - MCMLXXX
Lazer Crystal are three electro-futurists who hail from Chicago, and their big thing – in case you hadn’t guessed – is lasers. Boy ... Read more »| 29 Apr 2010 -
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Loch Lomond - Night Bats EP
Portland has roughly half a million inhabitants, and surveys reveal that approximately four-hundred thousand of them are in dead good bands (citation... Read more »| 29 Apr 2010