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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AlbumsPronto Mama – Any Joy
On their first full-length album, Any Joy, Pronto Mama deliver a potent blend of eclectic instrumentation and soulful lyrics. The unusual time signature... Read more »| 27 Apr 2017 -
EpPeaness – Are You Sure?
Given the mess that is the current turbulence of the social and political climate of the world – Brexit-based worriment, Trump torment and all – ... Read more »| 27 Apr 2017 -
AlbumsThurston Moore – Rock n Roll Consciousness
Hard on the heels of his Watch the Sky collaboration with poet Radieux Radio comes Thurston Moore's latest Read more »| 25 Apr 2017 -
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Mark Mulcahy – The Possum in the Driveway
First, some context: Mark Mulcahy is formerly of recently reformed REM-contemporaries Miracle Legion and also Polaris, and responsible for four solo albums o... Read more »| 25 Apr 2017 -
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L. Pierre – 1948–
Aidan Moffat bows out of his L. Pierre project, but not before leaving an indelible, eerie commentary on our changing consumer patterns and how they could ki... Read more »| 25 Apr 2017 -
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Colin Stetson – All This I Do for Glory
A few years ago a video did the rounds online – a single camera wandered through a house following a deep, thudding, percussive sound, one that was har... Read more »| 25 Apr 2017
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AlbumsMark Lanegan – Gargoyle
At first you might think Lanegan’s tenth solo album, Gargoyle, picks up where 2014’s Phantom Radio left off. You can hear the dark influence... Read more »| 25 Apr 2017 -
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DJ Format & Abdominal – Still Hungry
DJ Format and Abdominal are back – not that they’ve really been away, they’ve just been busy with their own things – and, as the titl... Read more »| 24 Apr 2017 -
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Andrew Wasylyk – Themes For Buildings and Spaces
If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, then who knows what music that's written about architecture is comparable to. Either way, this ser... Read more »| 24 Apr 2017 -
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ULTRAS – ULTRAS
The new solo project of Gav Prentice from Glasgow cult heroes Over the Wall, ULTRAS combines folk singer-songwriting with electronic, hip-hop influ... Read more »| 24 Apr 2017 -
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Babe – Kiss & Tell
While Babe's 2014 debut, Volery Flighty, walked a varied path – pieced together over time, saturated with instruments and influences –&... Read more »| 24 Apr 2017 -
AlbumsSylvan Esso – What Now
Following three years of bouncing between sold-out shows, Sylvan Esso's second album What Now reckons with the popularity, and ensuing normalisation, of... Read more »| 24 Apr 2017 -
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Feist – Pleasure
So this is what we get after six years away. Juno Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter Leslie Feist’s long-awaited fifth LP Pleasure continues the ... Read more »| 24 Apr 2017 -
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Dominic Waxing Lyrical – Rural Tonic
The name Rural Tonic calls to mind two things. The first: a gentile spa retreat – maybe you’ve gone to the Lakes and just logged off, yknow?... Read more »| 19 Apr 2017 -
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Jess Morgan – Edison Gloriette
Upon first hearing Jess Morgan back in 2013, this writer was totally won over by the quality of her storytelling and her spikey, claw-hammer guitar style. Sh... Read more »| 19 Apr 2017