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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AlbumsFFS – FFS
Some musical partnerships are just meant to be. Take Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks, making colourful and unorthodox pop together for fast approaching half a... Read more »| 28 May 2015 -
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Girlpool – Before the World Was Big
The L.A. duo's debut full-length is a sparse, palpably emotional affair Read more »| 28 May 2015 -
AlbumsJaakko Eino Kalevi – Jaakko Eino Kalevi
Kalevi’s new self-titled album is a comprehensive introduction to an artist surely destined to become one of synth-pop’s quirky new posterboys &n... Read more »| 27 May 2015 -
AlbumsWe Came From Wolves – We Came From Wolves
The debut effort from Scottish four-piece We Came From Wolves is a slick and consistently catchy collection of anthemic pop-rock songs written specifically f... Read more »| 27 May 2015 -
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Mates Of State – You're Going To Make It
Connecticut’s favourite husband-wife duo return with a five-song burst of new wave-tinged melodicism, as warm and wonderful as ever. It’s splendi... Read more »| 27 May 2015 -
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Miaoux Miaoux – School of Velocity
“Oh my god. It really is beautiful,” croons Julian Corrie – aka Miaoux Miaoux – on a track named Luxury Discovery. Both the... Read more »| 27 May 2015
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J Fernandez – Many Levels of Laughter
After three EPs, J Fernandez finally comes through with debut full length Many Levels of Laughter – and hasn’t lost any of his DIY eclectici... Read more »| 27 May 2015 -
AlbumsThee Oh Sees – Mutilator Defeated At Last
Another batch of blast furnace psych from the ever-fertile mind of John Dwyer and co. With the daydream haze of last year’s Drop putting an end to the ... Read more »| 26 May 2015 -
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Daughn Gibson – Carnation
Carnation is a frustrating record. According to Gibson, it’s marked from his previous releases by a sense of “malign opulence.” He says, &l... Read more »| 26 May 2015 -
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The Acorn – Vieux Loop
Despite summer being just around the corner, the fourth album from Canada's polite acoustic rockers The Acorn is apt music for hibernating to. All gentle bru... Read more »| 25 May 2015 -
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The Catenary Wires – Red Red Skies
The first line of Red Red Skies is a bit of a giveaway. “Nothing ever comes between us,” they sing, almost rendering void the themes of relations... Read more »| 20 May 2015 -
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No Joy – More Faithful
It won't change your life. It might not even change your day, but album number three from Jasamine White-Gluz and Laura Lloyd makes good on their original fi... Read more »| 20 May 2015 -
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Holly Herndon – Platform
A dense, chaotic barrage of spatialised noise and chopped up, processed vocals, Holly Herndon’s second full length doesn’t so much require an ope... Read more »| 18 May 2015 -
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Jad Fair & Norman Blake – Yes
Half Japanese icon Jad Fair teams up with Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake for the first time since 2002’s Words Of Wisdom And Hope – pr... Read more »| 18 May 2015 -
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Grey Hairs – Colossal Downer
Always a blast when the clever kids play dumb, and plenty have done just that over the years: from Iggy to Mudhoney to METZ, there’s few greater thrill... Read more »| 12 May 2015