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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AlbumsAdrian Younge presents – Twelve Reasons To Die II (starring Ghostface Killah)
"Ayo I’m back blowin’ dust off the vinyl, I got twelve more reasons to die, snap your spinal," Ghostface Killah raps, announcing the second insta... Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
AlbumsAdmiral Fallow – Tiny Rewards
There’s something crystalline about Tiny Rewards: maybe it’s frontman Louis Abbott’s clear tenor reaching upwards (paired often with Sarah ... Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
AlbumsC Duncan – Architect
"I’ll take you everywhere I go … I’ll take you everywhere I know," C Duncan sings on Here To There. By the time we get to this track, on t... Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
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Teen Men – Teen Men
Teen Men should be easy to write off as mere zeitgeist imitators: spikey muted guitar, afropop percussion, a lush production complete with what sounds like h... Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
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Ratatat – Magnifique
Magnifique, the fifth album from Brooklyn-based duo Ratatat, discontinues the naming convention set up with LP3 and LP4. But it could comfortably be called L... Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
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Tame Impala – Currents
For the past few years Tame Impala, aka the one-man studio machine Keven Parker, have been steadily redefining psychedelic rock for a millennial audience. Th... Read more »| 01 Jul 2015
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AlbumsLee Bannon – Pattern of Excel
Turns out this’ll be the last album from the artist formerly known as Lee Bannon; from now on he’ll be working under the name “¬ b&rdqu... Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
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Qluster – Tasten
Labels such as 'neo-classical' don’t always assist. It doesn’t do justice to the stark, abstract, and at times ambient beauty a work such as Tast... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
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Failure – The Heart Is a Monster
The fourth Failure album that seemed a pipe dream for so long calls in at the same spaceport the LA trio left us marooned on when they split with 1996’... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
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Prefuse 73 – Every Colour Of Darkness
Prefuse 73’s music is like an unscratched itch. Guillermo S. Herren belongs to that small band of producers, including Flying Lotus, who take a hip-hop... Read more »| 26 Jun 2015 -
AlbumsSleaford Mods – Key Markets
Jason Williamson: lyrical clusterbomb, full of bon mots – often expletives – and prescient observations deployed at dizzying speed. Check him out... Read more »| 26 Jun 2015 -
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Trembling Bells – The Sovereign Self
The reverberant, harrowing and cathartic vocals of Lavinia Blackwall stretch opener ’Tween the Womb and The Tomb to sheer fullness as she literally sin... Read more »| 26 Jun 2015 -
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The Orange Humble Band – Depressing Beauty
Ken Stringfellow. Jody Stephens. Jon Auer. Chris Stamey. Mitch Easter. If you are of a certain gender (male), age (um…) and persuasion (into REM when ... Read more »| 25 Jun 2015 -
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Carlton Melton – Out to Sea
Psychedelic jam band Carlton Melton’s latest cosmic voyage aims to open your mind, but you’ll first need to adjust your expectations. Most tracks... Read more »| 25 Jun 2015 -
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Rolo Tomassi – Grievances
Rolo Tomassi's complex and uncompromising aesthetic has seen them perhaps fall between two stools: leftfield additions to the Download bill on the one hand; ... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015