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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AlbumsFuneral for a Friend – Chapter and Verse
Difficult to believe it’s been more than ten years since Funeral for a Friend first broke through, but Chapter and Verse provides a handy opportun... Read more »| 07 Jan 2015 -
AlbumsThe Phantom Band – Fears Trending
Comprised mainly of offcuts from last year's Strange Friend (five of the seven tracks here were recorded during those sessions), it’s temptin... Read more »| 07 Jan 2015 -
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Mamuthones & Evil Blizzard – Collisions Vol. 4
Volume 4 in Rocket Recordings' Collision series pits Italian psyche stalwarts Mamuthones against Brit space rock revivalists Evil Blizzard. It's a case of tu... Read more »| 07 Jan 2015 -
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Noveller – Fantastic Planet
It’s easy to draw parallels when musicians have alternative outlets for their wandering muses, but regardless, filmmaker Sarah Lipstate has a cineaste&... Read more »| 07 Jan 2015 -
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Redder – Walk Long Play
Sombre Finnish duo Redder pull back the curtain on debut LP Walk Long Play, the followup to 2013’s sparse EP Border/Lines, and the stage is pretty bare... Read more »| 07 Jan 2015 -
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Etienne Jaumet – La Visite
As half of French duo Zombie Zombie, Etienne Jaumet has found himself increasingly drawn into the world of film scores – whether covering the greats, a... Read more »| 07 Jan 2015
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Panda Bear – Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
Noah Lennox’s fifth outing may have a rather portentous title but the content within is so much more than a simple dialogue with death. Then again, not... Read more »| 06 Jan 2015 -
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Pond – Man It Feels Like Space Again
Space? SPACE? It feels bigger than that, Sonny Jim. After the… ooh, approximately five seconds it takes to notice the similarities between Perth popst... Read more »| 06 Jan 2015 -
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BC Camplight – How To Die In The North
It’s too lazy to call How To Die In The North a catharsis for BC Camplight. True, a descent from critical acclaim to alcoholism, drug use and homelessn... Read more »| 06 Jan 2015 -
AlbumsDisappears – Irreal
The fifth album from Chicago quartet Disappears is so massive, so spatially aware that it appears to descend from an unattainable height without ever touchin... Read more »| 06 Jan 2015 -
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 -
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Enter 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