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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AlbumsTexas – Jump on Board
After nearly thirty years in the biz, Texas' ninth album Jump on Board finds the Glaswegian pop titans in a reflexive mood. Love, loss, regret and forgivenes... Read more »| 04 May 2017 -
AlbumsTica Douglas – Our Lady Star of the Sea, Help and Protect Us
The second record from Tica Douglas collects moments and feelings from partway through a journey that might have no end. Over terse acoustic guitar strumming... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
AlbumsAmanda Palmer & Edward Ka-Spel – I Can Spin a Rainbow
Light a candle in a dark room and wrap up snug; this is a haunted house of a record. Dark corners, echoey corridors, lyrics half sung, half spoken. If this i... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
AlbumsBonnie 'Prince' Billy – Best Troubador
If the Americana boom of the mid-to-late 2000s can be traced back to anything, it's arguably the death of Johnny Cash in 2003. There was something about the ... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
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Afghan Whigs – In Spades
Afghan Whigs' latest offering In Spades is just the kind of music you’d expect Greg Dulli and the boys to be producing in 2017, proving the o... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
AlbumsJoan Shelley – Joan Shelley
It's always a little odd when an artist pulls out the self-titled record a few years into their career. This is Joan Shelley's fourth album, and her most con... Read more »| 03 May 2017
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Fazerdaze – Morningside
“When I’m writing a song I never think about who’s gonna hear it, I just try and think about what I’m feeling, and I try and articula... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
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Black Lips – Satan's Graffiti or God's Art?
Black Lips have never given a lot of fucks, but since working with Mark Ronson on 2011's criminally underrated Arabia Mountain, they've made a concerted effo... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
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Fat Goth – Enorme!
Picture the scene in David Lynch’s Wild at Heart: Laura Dern’s Lula is driving the big open top car as Nick Cage’s Sailor sleeps in the bac... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
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Twelfth Day – Cracks in the Room
For a decade now, fiddler Catriona Price and harpist Esther Swift have been making challenging, interesting, virtuostic music that is far more than the sum o... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
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Penguin Cafe – The Imperfect Sea
Arthur Jeffes’ decision to resurrect the name and sound of his late father’s iconic instrumental project looked an unlikely proposition when he s... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
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Perfume Genius – No Shape
Only Perfume Genius could conjure a fairy tale from these troubling times. No Shape documents deep lows and the most glittering of highs; harsh and lush in e... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
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Pond – The Weather
Psychedelic princelings Pond are back with their most conventionally named album yet – but don’t let that fool you. Cosmic and colourful, The Wea... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
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Forest Swords – Compassion
It’s hard to place Compassion, the third album by Liverpool-based producer and artist Matthew Barnes aka Forest Swords – but then that&rsquo... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
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Slowdive – Slowdive
It pays to be wary when bands of yore come reforming, the suspicion all-too-often one of bank balance replenishment posing as creative renaissance. This is ... Read more »| 02 May 2017