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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AlbumsGrandaddy – Last Place
Eleven years ago, Jason Lytle pulled the plug on Grandaddy after four albums of intriguing and often wonderful indie rock music. They fused the archetypal 90... Read more »| 27 Feb 2017 -
AlbumsSleaford Mods – English Tapas
As British society sails into increasingly perilous waters, Sleaford Mods have somehow positioned themselves in the last few years as music’s most cutt... Read more »| 24 Feb 2017 -
AlbumsBlanck Mass – World Eater
The third album from Fuck Buttons' Benjamin John Power is as dark and brilliant as we've come to expect. In an interview with The Skinny last year, ... Read more »| 24 Feb 2017 -
AlbumsThe Little Kicks – Shake off Your Troubles
For some, 'inoffensive' is the most scathing insult you can hurl at a band, but Aberdeen’s Little Kicks are proof that there can be dignity in making m... Read more »| 24 Feb 2017 -
AlbumsIbibio Sound Machine – Uyai
Ibibio Sound Machine’s first record, which introduced mainstream dance music to the language and folk culture of the Ibibio people of southwest Nigeria... Read more »| 24 Feb 2017 -
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Campfires in Winter – Ischaemia
The Glasgow-based indie rockers finally turn in an unsteady debut LP Read more »| 24 Feb 2017
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Dirty Projectors – Dirty Projectors
Dirty Projectors' latest offering lands them firmly inside 2017, coming in the wake of, although not directly inspired by, frontman David Longstret... Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
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Tsutro – Tsutro
On the one hand, Jacob Montague is the canonical hipster – plaid shirts, strong beard, enjoys “San Francisco’s finest iced coffee” on... Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
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The Feelies – In Between
Having recently celebrated their fortieth birthday, New Jersey’s The Feelies know better than most how to burn slowly. More placid ripples than Crazy R... Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
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The Pigeon Detectives – Broken Glances
Say what you want about The Pigeon Detectives but they’ve stuck at it. The Leeds five-piece’s career after their platinum selling debut album Wai... Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
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Crystal Fairy – Crystal Fairy
“Written and recorded over pho while watching cannibal movies” is how Omar Rodriguez-Lopez explains supergroup Crystal Fairy’s debut LP, an... Read more »| 14 Feb 2017 -
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Undo – Undo
Formed in 2016, Glasgow four-piece Undo make quite the racket. In point of fact, on first listen, they probably sound as noisy and ramshackle as any rocking ... Read more »| 14 Feb 2017 -
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Alasdair Roberts – Pangs
Almost two decades into an entertainingly spasmodic career, Alasdair Roberts shows no sign of settling into the well-worn groove of anything approaching a tr... Read more »| 13 Feb 2017 -
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Six Organs of Admittance – Burning the Threshold
One can’t keep the prodigious guitarist Ben Chasny quiet for long. Since 1998 Chasny has had a prolific output, releasing a Six Organs of Admittance re... Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
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Meursault – I Will Kill Again
When main protagonist Neil Pennycook called time on Meursault in 2014 after three albums proper, fans hoped it wouldn't be the last they'd hear from him. Tra... Read more »| 09 Feb 2017