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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AlbumsColdharbourstores – Wilderness
Of all the turn-of- the-century bands one might reasonably have expected to reform in recent years, surely no one had their money on London’s Cold... Read more »| 10 Jan 2017 -
AlbumsAustra – Future Politics
Draw the curtains, light a candle and polish your crystal ball. It sounds as if Katie Stelmanis’ darkwave electro-pop outfit has been reading plenty of... Read more »| 10 Jan 2017 -
AlbumsIrma Vep – No Handshake Blues
In Olivier Assayas's 1996 film-within-a-film Irma Vep, the Hong Kong actor Maggie Cheung inhabits its dream-like narrative as if newly arrived from another p... Read more »| 06 Jan 2017 -
AlbumsJulie Byrne – Not Even Happiness
"I've been called a heartbreaker, for doing justice to my own." On her second album, Byrne expands her palette and enriches her singular methodology. The set... Read more »| 05 Jan 2017 -
AlbumsA Winged Victory For The Sullen – Iris
The third full-length from the ambient duo is their most understated yet - almost to a fault Read more »| 05 Jan 2017 -
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SOHN – Rennen
Christopher Taylor, aka SOHN, is back with Rennen, the follow-up to his beautiful 2014 debut Tremors. Starting where his previous album left off, t... Read more »| 05 Jan 2017
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Invisible Boy – Invisible Boy
Polica bassist Chris Bierden finally takes centre stage after a decade of solo shows Read more »| 04 Jan 2017 -
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ZOOEY – The Drifters
While it didn’t make the shortlist for the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year, “self-care” had to be a contender – af... Read more »| 04 Jan 2017 -
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Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 3
Equal parts red-hot fire and cold hard reality, Killer Mike and El-P’s third album as Run The Jewels is a muscular call to arms Read more »| 04 Jan 2017 -
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Living Body – Body is Working
A new project from Jeff T. Smith (formerly known as Juffage), featuring longtime collaborators Katie Harkin (Harkin, Sky Larkin, Sleater-Kinney), and Tom Eva... Read more »| 09 Dec 2016 -
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Tissø Lake – Paths to the Foss
Paths to the Foss, the new album by Tissø Lake, is a beautiful, fragile thing, which feels more like some ancient artefact than something as tangible ... Read more »| 08 Dec 2016 -
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The Weeknd – Starboy
No matter how hard he tries to convince us otherwise on Starboy, Abel Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd, has lost his edge in his pursuit of super stardom. It wou... Read more »| 05 Dec 2016 -
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Rosie Crow – Rosie Crow
The self-titled debut album by Cornish singer Rosie Crow is an impressive slice of pop goodness. Formerly part of promising indie band Rosie & The Goldbu... Read more »| 02 Dec 2016 -
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The Last Shadow Puppets – The Dream Synopsis EP
KY Jelly and cacti. Palm tree debris and a jar of coffee. High-wire existential crises met with a sprezzatura sex appeal, strings'n'saxophone and shadow pupp... Read more »| 02 Dec 2016 -
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Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygene 3
What? What? No, seriously. This is excellent. Sure, the very mention of the man's name conjures a picture of excess forever associated with a particular... Read more »| 30 Nov 2016