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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AlbumsBelle and Sebastian – Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance might come as a surprise for some. It’s tough and brave and witty and warm-hearted – perhaps inevitable cha... Read more »| 06 Jan 2015 -
AlbumsEnter Shikari – The Mindsweep
Once upon a time, a successful fusion of rock with ‘dance music’ was the great unattainable dream of modern pop, a quest which largely resulted i... Read more »| 06 Jan 2015 -
AlbumsSouthern Tenant Folk Union – The Chuck Norris Project
Concept albums tend to divide opinion. The best reveal a loose theme that binds songs, but a rigid template can as easily suffocate creativity as inspire it.... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015 -
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Jo Bartlett – 9 x 7
It's difficult now to imagine just how marginalised the UK alt-folk scene was at the turn of the century. Plaid shirts, boutique festivals and Laura Marling ... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015 -
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Flug 8 – Trans Atlantik
“Krautey-housey-techno” is how producer and DJ Daniel Herrmann (here in his on-off Flug 8 guise) describes his uncompromising, minimal beats. Now... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015 -
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Tanya Tagaq – Animism
It wrong-foots from the off and then, once you're fully disoriented, abandons you to your own devices. Tanya Tagaq's third album hits UK shelves fresh from e... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015
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Dan Mangan + Blacksmith – Club Meds
For someone whose award-winning solo efforts were already full of charming heft, Dan Mangan’s first ostensible outing with the full band Blacksmith (th... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015 -
AlbumsSleater-Kinney – No Cities to Love
Recorded in secret in early 2014, seven years after they began their 'extended hiatus,' No Cities to Love is as daring and playful as its head-spinning prove... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015 -
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The Grand Gestures – Third
From monochrome artwork to functional title, The Grand Gestures' third album in three years deviates little from the mould cast by parts one and two, yet t... Read more »| 03 Dec 2014 -
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Malcolm Middleton And David Shrigley – Music And Words
Perhaps not the most unlikely collaboration: visual artist Shrigley lives and works in Glasgow, where his new musical partner rode to semi-fame with post-roc... Read more »| 02 Dec 2014 -
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Villalog – Space Trash
Even if titles like Orange Sunshine and Wall of Echoes signpost the odd slip into motorik-bound pastiche, Austrian trio Villalog are more discerning psych re... Read more »| 28 Nov 2014 -
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Lotus Thief – Rervm
An epic metal opus, based on ancient Roman philosophical verse – Spinal Tap levels of hubris and folly, right? Well, no, as it turns out. Rervm is rath... Read more »| 27 Nov 2014 -
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Wild Billy Childish & CTMF – Acorn Man
“Always different, always the same,” as John Peel famously described his perennial faves The Fall, but only the latter is required to sum up Bill... Read more »| 27 Nov 2014 -
AlbumsGithead – Waiting For a Sign
The unlikely four piece with the equally unlikely moniker return with their first album in five years. Led by Wire's Colin Newman, Githead are Malak Spigel a... Read more »| 27 Nov 2014 -
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Deathcats & New Swears – Split EP
The transatlantic union between Glasgow’s Deathcats and Ottawa’s New Swears is a grunge-punk Christmas come early. With four tracks apiece, this ... Read more »| 26 Nov 2014