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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AlbumsPurity Ring – Another Eternity
Album artwork can speak a thousand words. Take the sleeve to debut Shrines, an eerie, dark cartoon: girl embraces sheep, ghostly hands paw at floating lungs.... Read more »| 24 Feb 2015 -
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Group of the Altos – R U Person or Not
"Let our hearts break and scream (when we are all courage.)" Sometimes, an act inserts into their self-penned bio a sliver of manifesto that signals their in... Read more »| 21 Feb 2015 -
EpTuff Love – Dross EP
This second EP from the Glasgow duo of Julie Eisenstein and Suse Bear (the follow-up to 2014's Junk) refines their minimal palette. It's still them but the t... Read more »| 21 Feb 2015 -
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Idlewild – Everything Ever Written
For context’s sake, let’s just clear one thing up: Idlewild’s days as oblique-angled indie-punkas (“A flight of stairs falling down a... Read more »| 13 Feb 2015 -
AlbumsBADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah – Sour Soul
BADBADNOTGOOD’s vision has always been broad, but with Pretty Toney in tow this time it’s blinding. The Toronto jazz trio might have found wider ... Read more »| 11 Feb 2015 -
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Public Service Broadcasting – The Race for Space
Many wondered where Public Service Broadcasting could go from their debut; could such a unique concept ever be more than just clips from the British Film Ins... Read more »| 10 Feb 2015
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Dutch Uncles – O Shudder
O Shudder, the fourth album from art-pop five-piece Dutch Uncles is a bit frustrating, and the difference in the first two singles Decided Knowledge and In N... Read more »| 10 Feb 2015 -
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The Unthanks – Mount the Air
The much extolled olde-worlde storytelling of The Unthanks has won them an impressive array of famous admirers, everyone from Ryan Adams to Dawn French &ndas... Read more »| 09 Feb 2015 -
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Father John Misty – I Love You Honeybear
The working relationship between Josh Tillman and his stage alias Father John Misty is far from straightforward. The sardonic, navelgazing narrative of ... Read more »| 06 Feb 2015 -
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California X – Nights in the Dark
“Please be kind,” begs Lemmy Gurtowsky, but there’s really no need. See, California X trade in the simple art of riffs’n’hooks,... Read more »| 06 Feb 2015 -
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Duke Garwood – Heavy Love
Album number six from the Brit soul man resolves a backstory nigh on three decades in the making. After working solo and collaboratively – his contacts... Read more »| 06 Feb 2015 -
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Screaming Females – Rose Mountain
No sign of let-up for New Brunswick’s Screaming Females, who just can’t seem to gather a pile of irresistible melodies without submerging them in... Read more »| 05 Feb 2015 -
AlbumsThe Pop Group – Citizen Zombie
When The Pop Group first made their return from a decades-long hiatus, opening what would turn out to be Sonic Youth’s final UK shows around December o... Read more »| 05 Feb 2015 -
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A Place to Bury Strangers – Transfixiation
Frenzied wind, screeching subway trains, corrupted radio transmissions and the rusty insides of a petrol engine: these are just a few of the sounds evoked by... Read more »| 05 Feb 2015 -
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Twerps – Range Anxiety
Antipodean jangle that borrows heavily from New Zealand’s finest guitar-manglers in all their scuffed glory, while still doffing its cap to the widescr... Read more »| 04 Feb 2015