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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AlbumsLily & Madeleine – Keep It Together
Lily & Madeleine sang 'complacency is the currency/good enough is enough for me' on their 2014 release Fumes. And while their output at such a young age ... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
AlbumsSarah Neufeld – The Ridge
Sarah Neufeld’s previous outing, Never Were The Way She Was, provided a fascinating conversation between the fluid majesty of her violin and the virtuo... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
AlbumsThe Cave Singers – Banshee
The Seattle folk rockers' crowdfunded LP is staid, safe and destined to live in the background. Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
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El Guincho – Hiperasia
Album número tres from astro-exotica producer Pablo Díaz-Reixa plays like a radio shuffling through stations. Hiperasia – named after a s... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
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Amy Duncan – Undercurrents
Amy Duncan’s fifth studio album is as gentle, elegant and lovely as any believer in softly orchestrated folk could want. The multi-instrumentalist... Read more »| 02 Feb 2016 -
AlbumsSo Pitted – Neo
Melodies are all well and good, but they’ll only get you so far. Sometimes all you wanna hear is something that’ll crush you into the ground. Ste... Read more »| 02 Feb 2016
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New Albums This Week: Jesu / Sun Kil Moon + more
The week's best new records from Jesu / Sun Kil Moon, Nevermen & MONEY Read more »| 29 Jan 2016 -
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Nap Eyes – Thought Rock Fish Scale
Location can be an underappreciated facet in rock music. Take Nap Eyes’ second long player, for instance; recorded in a living room in smalltown Nova S... Read more »| 28 Jan 2016 -
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Wild Nothing – Life Of Pause
Life of Synth may have been a more apt title for Wild Nothing’s third record, cultivated as it is around layers of woozy electronic timbres. Nowhere is... Read more »| 28 Jan 2016 -
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Flowers – Everybody's Dying to Meet You
It takes just under 30 seconds for Flowers’ second album Everybody’s Dying to Meet You to vault its promising but wan predecessor (2014’s D... Read more »| 28 Jan 2016 -
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Rangda – The Heretic's Bargain
There’s a storm brewing. Clouds writhe and branches flail as it grows bigger and bigger, the sky turning darker by the minute, until everything suddenl... Read more »| 28 Jan 2016 -
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The Wave Pictures – A Season in Hull
So, how did you celebrate your last birthday? Pub, was it? Dinner with friends perhaps? Sigh – how unproductive. You want to take a leaf out of th... Read more »| 27 Jan 2016 -
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DIIV – Is The Is Are
There are more than a fair few Brooklyn bands that have a particular taste for jangly guitars and not washing. It is only a minority of these, however, where... Read more »| 27 Jan 2016 -
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Nevermen – Nevermen
Some eight years since they first teased the possibility, maverick Anticon co-founder Doseone (‘mind’), TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe (&... Read more »| 26 Jan 2016 -
AlbumsBasia Bulat – Good Advice
The Canadian singer's fourth album is a subtle but distinct redefining of her angular pop aesthetic. Produced by Jim James of My Morning Jacket in his Kentuc... Read more »| 26 Jan 2016