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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AlbumsHowes – 3.5 Degrees
Delicate, sparse, occasionally transmogrifying; the debut album from Manchester-based musician John Howes is both back-lit and fugue-like, riffing upon solit... Read more »| 05 Jan 2016 -
AlbumsThen Thickens – Colic
There’s plenty of drugs and death on Then Thickens’ second album, and it’s soaked in the damage done by both. My Sunday finds Jon-Lee ... Read more »| 02 Jan 2016 -
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De Rosa – Weem
Though they announced their reunion back in 2012, the release of Weem bookends a hiatus of almost seven years for Bellshill quintet De Rosa. Now a trio in th... Read more »| 02 Jan 2016 -
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Hinds – Leave Me Alone
What a year Hinds had. 2015 saw the Madrid garage-rockers explode onto the international scene, scooping up fancy festival slots with tracks like Bamboo, and... Read more »| 31 Dec 2015 -
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Guadalupe Plata – Guadalupe Plata
The kind of record that leaves you feeling you need a bath, Guadalupe Plata is beyond dirty. A scuzzed-up, howlaround, frenzied fusing of blues forms and pun... Read more »| 30 Dec 2015 -
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Pete Astor – Spilt Milk
Following last year’s dabblings in kraut-out dubtronica with Ellis Island Sound, Pete Astor returns to what he does best: serenading us with simple, we... Read more »| 30 Dec 2015
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Beans on Toast – Rolling Up the Hill
As ever, Beans on Toast, AKA Jay McAllister, serves up his homespun, ramshackle folk with a side order of spiked, stick-it-to-the-man polemic. Words come at ... Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
AlbumsAucan – Stelle Fisse
Far from the shy retiring geeks of electro stereotype, Italian trio Aucan have toured incessantly over the last few years, playing over 300 shows supporting ... Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
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Hanne Kolstø – While We Still Have Light
Hanne Kolstø's latest boasts a cracking USP: While We Still Have Light is the Norwegian's fifth album in five years. In an age where artists routinely... Read more »| 01 Dec 2015 -
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Sunturns – Christmas I & II
Disliking a Christmas album is like admitting the John Lewis advert didn’t make you cry, or that you secretly think eggnog is vile. But, happily, this ... Read more »| 01 Dec 2015 -
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The Brian Setzer Orchestra – Rockin' Rudolph
This is more like it. As a multitude of half-cocked attempts at festive frivolity pay more attention to the cash till than genuine good cheer, the rockabilly... Read more »| 01 Dec 2015 -
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Jess and the Ancient Ones – Second Psychedelic Coming: The Aquarius Tapes
Taking the 'does what it says on the tin' approach to album titles, the Finnish sextet’s second long player isn’t going to win many awards for st... Read more »| 26 Nov 2015 -
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Yacht – I Thought The Future Would Be Cooler
YACHT (it stands for Young Americans Challenging High Technology) have punishingly cool credentials: describing themselves variously as an 'avant-garde karao... Read more »| 26 Nov 2015 -
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jennylee – right on!
If you check the liner notes to right on!, you’ll find a Lindberg on bass and a Mozgawa on the drums… but this is no Warpaint record. Jenny... Read more »| 26 Nov 2015 -
AlbumsLeRoy – Skläsh
Google Translate can't handle Skläsh; after suggesting that it might possibly be a Swedish word, the engine admitted defeat. No matter, because Sklä... Read more »| 25 Nov 2015