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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AlbumsTilly & The Wall - Bottoms Of Barrels
Bottoms of Barrels' sees a soul searching child beautifully maturing in a world of heartbreak and sorrow Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
AlbumsThe Human Value - The Human Value
An update on Siouxsie & the Banshees' legendary goth-punk sound. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Albums
Mercury Rev - The Essential
This is a good time to remember, if you've forgotten, the majestic theremin-induced glory of 'Holes' Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
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Mansun - Legacy - The Best Of Mansun
Their gigs were all savage carnality and purple passion àMansun were a band that even made men wet. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
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Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager
Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager' is an impassioned record from a modern liberal-left teen, a new torch-bearer for idol-hunting youngsters. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
AlbumsDuke Special - Songs From The Deep Forest
When most groups have little to offer, Songs from the Deep Forest is most definately worth a spin.
Read more »| 13 Oct 2006
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Singles
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - The Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager (Part 1) (Atlantic)
A bo-ho teenage cult-leader with no suicidal suggestions? Worth keeping an eye on. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Singles
Hot Club de Paris - Everyeveryeverything/Hello Comrade (I Quit My Job) (Moshi Moshi)
Hot Club de Paris produce frenetic, naked pop music that sounds as if it might trip over itself at any moment Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
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Jack Butler - Velvet Prose
Is another retro wiry-guitar band to compliment the NME-fuelled nu-alternative bandwagon really necessary? Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Singles
James Yorkston - Steady As She Goes
Beautiful, no matter where you call home Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Singles
Muse - Starlight
so unfashionable it sounds like the theme for some short-lived 80s TV soap Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Singles
Razorlight - America
...you wish Borrell would stop harping on about the place and just emigrate Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Singles
Spearmint - Psycho Magnet
Peers at you from your stereo like a lovelorn Bernard Sumner Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
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Stephen Malkmus - Kindling for the Master remix EP
Stephen Malkmus gets the remix treatment on this adhoc little EP Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Singles
The Automatic - Recover
A shallow, tuneless void of a song Read more »| 13 Oct 2006