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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AlbumsYounghusband – Dissolver
This is Younghusband's sophomore effort after making a decent fist of updating the Mary Chain's apocalyptic 80s drone on their 2013 debut. In its own ri... Read more »| 14 Oct 2015 -
AlbumsIrmler/Einheit – Bestandteil
The latest collaboration between FM Einheit (Einstürzende Neubauten) and Hans-Joachim Irmler (Faust) – recorded over a four year period via a proc... Read more »| 13 Oct 2015 -
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Jaye Bartell – Loyalty
When Massachusetts-born poet-turned-songwriter Jaye Bartell asks “don’t you know me? I am your oldest friend” in the closing moments of his... Read more »| 13 Oct 2015 -
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Esmerine – Lost Voices
The fifth album from the Montreal chamber rock collective is a beguiling mass of dialled-down post-rock, classical figures and exploratory soundscapes. Led b... Read more »| 07 Oct 2015 -
AlbumsRoots Manuva – Bleeds
'The TVs and magazines keep them kinda hopeful that one day, in some way, they’ll get a lucky break, in the meantime that plant food provides a cheap e... Read more »| 07 Oct 2015 -
AlbumsKilling Joke – Pylon
Accomplished, you'd expect, but switched on and inspired? Neither is a given for a band fast approaching its fourth decade. In keeping with the blackened, ra... Read more »| 07 Oct 2015
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Joanna Newsom – Divers
Joanna Newsom’s last album, Have One On Me was a three-disc, 18-track, two-hour odyssey. Album number four is perhaps more modest in scale – ... Read more »| 07 Oct 2015 -
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EL VY – Return to the Moon
Members of the National and Menomena combine on a record that strikes a happy medium between the two Read more »| 07 Oct 2015 -
AlbumsVASA – Colours
Post-rock, apparently, although we can probably lose the ‘post’ part – Colours rawks wholeheartedly, if not life-changingly, construct... Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
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John Carpenter – Lost Themes Remixed
A glorious paean to the science fiction soundtracks of our youth, legendary sci-fi and horror director John Carpenter’s Lost Themes, released earlier t... Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
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Rival Consoles – Howl
Titles can be deceptive; there’s little to imply angst or anguish in Ryan Lee West’s cerebral, ambidextrous electronica. Instead, the third full-... Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
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Here We Go Magic – Be Small
Here We Go Magic’s line-up may have undergone a significant reshuffle since the release of 2012’s acclaimed A Different Ship, but despite this tr... Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
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Dinosaur Pile-Up – Eleven Eleven
You needn’t be a paleontologist to suss Dinosaur Pile-Up’s sonic ancestry. Their third outing – another solid offering of crisp power-... Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
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Dave Heumann – Here in the Deep
Autumn. And as if to mark the occasion, the debut solo LP from the Arbouretum frontman arrives shaded in earthy, feuille-morte introspection, like a WB Yeats... Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
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Larry Gus – I Need New Eyes
If anyone’s got a handle on life, you’d think it’d be musicians – right? Not if they’re Larry Gus, apparently. Convinced o... Read more »| 06 Oct 2015