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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AlbumsBONG – Stoner Rock
BONG have always considered themselves a separate entity from the so-called "stoner rock" scene; their sonic manifesto is less aggressive and direct than mos... Read more »| 04 Mar 2014 -
AlbumsAppletop – Brave Mountains
Hailing from the town of Hyères in the sunny Côte d’Azur, Appletop are French on their passports but emphatically American in their musica... Read more »| 04 Mar 2014 -
AlbumsJoan as Police Woman – The Classic
There are times, as on the Motown-fuelled Holy City, a breathless, ribald devotional (“Yeah, I’m ready to get up on your wailing wall!”), w... Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
AlbumsKing Midas – Rosso
King Midas have some reacquainting to do. Rosso is the Norwegian cult act's first album in six years, but it's also their international debut. An odd blend o... Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
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Elbow – The Take Off and Landing of Everything
“Was the universe in rehearsal?” wonders Guy Garvey on opener The World is Blue. Clocking at nearly eight minutes and ghosting to a string-driven... Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
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Carla Bozulich – Boy
A veteran of the LA alternative and avant garde music scene, Carla Bozulich uses Boy to align herself with other practitioners of skewed, angular t... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014
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MØ – No Mythologies To Follow
Following up her feisty 2013 EP Bikini Daze, Danish pop vixen Karen Marie Ørsted – as MØ – unveils her debut No Mythologies To Foll... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
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Micah P. Hinson – Micah P. Hinson And The Nothing
Back in 2011, a serious road accident brought Micah P. Hinson's tour of Spain to an abrupt halt. Alarmingly, losing the use of his arms was a distinct possib... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
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Water Liars – Water Liars
There's a burning passion comparable to the earlier recordings of My Morning Jacket scattered across Water Liars' third, self-titled full-length, but the air... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
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Skaters – Manhattan
Ignore the shuffle of primitive syn-drums that raise the curtain here. They’re little more than a flutter of false promise, swiftly giving way to the S... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
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Real Estate – Atlas
Last album Days seemed to unexpectedly catapult Ridgewood, New Jersey natives Real Estate to the top table of American indie. Atlas largely follows a similar... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
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Sudden Death of Stars – All Unrevealed Parts of the Unknown
Everything the Sudden Death of Stars do is not so much tinged but teeming with a sepia tone. The Rennes sextet exist in that increasingly inclusive realm of ... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
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Johnny Foreigner – You Can Do Better
Diminishing returns? Nah. Johnny Foreigner may plead ignorance as to why they still haven’t mellowed out by this fourth record, but it’s false mo... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
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Bill Pritchard – A Trip to the Coast
Staffordshire-born songwriter Bill Pritchard has been releasing music intermittently since the eighties, though if the name doesn’t ring bells it&rsquo... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
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We Are Scientists – TV en Francais
The inexplicably titled TV en Français is, supposedly, the fourth studio LP from New York indie buds We Are Scientists (if we ignore 2002’s quir... Read more »| 26 Feb 2014