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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Singles
Malcolm Middleton - Fuck It, I Love You
Happiness is a fragile commodity, always at risk of being shattered by the heavy boulders of the singer's habitual self-doubt. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
SinglesCherry Ghost - Mathematics
Grabs you like double periods of trigonomics just never could. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Ep
Lou Hickey - Does it Get Easier EP
Swoons in the best melodramatic fashion: light jazz strolling into the dark night. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Singles
Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm
Not entirely bad; even if Turner's vaguely self-righteous reverse-snobbery is
starting to grate. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Singles
The Library Trust - My Town on TV
With a little extra kick in the production it could be up there with Snow Patrol as an after-work tonic for the ill-at-ease everyman Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
SinglesThe Little Flames - Isobella
The melting distortion and disgruntled attack set them above the macho crop of indie-rockers. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007
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AlbumsMaximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures
Maximo Park used to be easily dismissed as post-punk scenesters ànot anymore. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
AlbumsKings of Leon - Because of the Times
The Southern fried rock of before is now tempered with a healthy side salad. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
AlbumsThee More Shallows - Book of Bad Breaks
These tunes are universal. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Albums
Tenebrous Mitchell - The Havering
The latest in the present flux of poetry-set-to-music projects, The Havering offers little to suggest that the two mediums are not mutually exclusive. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Albums
Soulsavers - It's Not How Far You Fall, It's The Way You Land
Like Blur's Tender given a good going over, the results are conflicting and ultimately uplifting. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Albums
Rio En Medio - The Bride of Dynamite
A rare breed Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Albums
Grant Lee Phillips - Strangelet
With nothing left to prove, Phillips seems to be more content to let flow whatever comes Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Albums
Demon's Claws - Satan's Little Pet Pig
The spirit of Robert Johnson jamming with Jon Spencer Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Albums
Charlotte Hatherley - The Deep Blue
This songbird is determined to flee her pop-princess nest... Read more »| 11 Apr 2007