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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AlbumsColin Stetson – SORROW
Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 is a masterpiece of minimalism. It makes sense, then, that a fellow master of the minimal – avant-garde saxo... Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
AlbumsParquet Courts – Human Performance
After last year’s wilfully difficult Monastic Living EP, you’d be forgiven for expecting Parquet Courts’ latest full-length album to take a... Read more »| 29 Mar 2016 -
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Frightened Rabbit – Painting of a Panic Attack
Give or take a month, it’s been ten years since Frightened Rabbit put out the first run of Sing the Greys on the tiny Hits the Fan label. It seems pert... Read more »| 29 Mar 2016 -
AlbumsSeptember Girls – Age of Indignation
2014's Cursing the Sea did just enough to flag the potential of this Dublin five piece: their shadowy debut was sharply styled but that winning aesthetic alo... Read more »| 28 Mar 2016 -
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Shonen Knife – Adventure
Shonen Knife, by strength of statistics alone, have earned their legendary status ten times over. The revolutionary Osaka punk band are celebrating their 35t... Read more »| 28 Mar 2016 -
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New Albums This Week: The Thermals, Bob Mould
Our round-up of the best new music released this week, including the return of Hutch Harris and The Thermals, and solo LP number eleven from Hüsker Dü's Bob Mould. Read more »| 25 Mar 2016
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The Field – The Follower
Swedish producer Axel Willner’s 2011 album title, Looping State of Mind, perhaps sums up his music as The Field better than anything. Referencing ... Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
AlbumsMogwai – Atomic
Upon motive alone, this is a poignant release – a reworked version of the original soundtrack created for Belfast-born director Mark Cousins’ doc... Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
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Alun Woodward – Music From Battle Mountain
It's been seven years since Alun Woodward's last album (2009's eponymous Lord Cut-Glass LP), so the very emergence of Battle Mountain feels like a triumph. W... Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
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Future of the Left – The Peace and Truce of...
“The proper music abounds,” sneer Future of the Left on their fifth album, taking potshots at the tedium of 'authenticity' while barrel-roll... Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
AlbumsBlack Mountain – IV
Those searching for echoes of Black Mountain's thunderous 2008 release In The Future won't find it in latest record IV. This is certainly not to say that the... Read more »| 24 Mar 2016 -
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Yeasayer – Amen and Goodbye
If there’s a suspicion that Brooklyn’s Yeasayer try just a little too hard, it’s not a feeling that their fourth LP is going to disprove; A... Read more »| 24 Mar 2016 -
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Moderat – III
'Why must I hide / In the forests of my mind?' asks Sascha Ring – aka Apparat – in the opening lines of Eating Hooks. It’s as cle... Read more »| 24 Mar 2016 -
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Frankie Cosmos – Next Thing
'I’m 20, washed up already,' sings Frankie Cosmos on the appositely-titled I’m 20, in what may just be the most misleading lyric of the year.&nbs... Read more »| 24 Mar 2016 -
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Gnod – Mirror
Nothing if not prolific, Salford’s favourite Krautrock connoisseurs (let’s ignore The Fall’s I Am Damo Suzuki for the moment) follow-up las... Read more »| 23 Mar 2016