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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AlbumsZOOEY – 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 -
AlbumsLiving 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 -
AlbumsTissø 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 -
AlbumsJean-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 -
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Pete Doherty – Hamburg Demonstrations
It honestly hurts – we shit you not – to write the words: the latest Pete Doherty album doesn’t make me want to ram a rusty screwdriver int... Read more »| 30 Nov 2016 -
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Hey Colossus – Dedicated to Uri Klangers
Speaker-shredding enormity of sound, thy name be Hey Colossus. This 90-minute double LP collects highlights from the band’s first ten years, and while ... Read more »| 30 Nov 2016 -
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worriedaboutsatan – Blank Tape
It’s a risk some artists take, to release so much of their output: all too often, they ultimately spread themselves too thin. How worriedaboutsata... Read more »| 30 Nov 2016 -
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Slowcoaches – Nothing Gives
Four years after their first EP surfaced on micro-indie Tye Die Tapes, Slowcoaches finally turn in their debut album – and it’s worth the wait. R... Read more »| 29 Nov 2016 -
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El Hombre Trajeado – Fast Diagonal
12 years after their last album, it’s remarkable how much of El Hombre Trajeado’s sound has carried over onto record number four. If 2004's ... Read more »| 28 Nov 2016 -
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D.I.D – The State We're In
First noticed chanting “We are a mess, we are failures and we love it” with the cast of Skins back in the ancient past of 2011, D.I.D now return ... Read more »| 28 Nov 2016 -
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Beans on Toast – A Spanner in the Works
Say what you like about 2016 but if nothing else it was the year Billy Bragg, the last great political troubadour, made an album about trains. Where, you mig... Read more »| 28 Nov 2016