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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AlbumsWeezer – Everything Will Be Alright In The End
Weezer are getting old. These cult Los Angeles indie rock mainstays are at album number nine (if we’re not counting 2010’s offcuts compilation De... Read more »| 03 Oct 2014 -
AlbumsScott Walker + Sunn O))) – Soused
This collaboration between Scott Walker and Sunn O))), two absolute titans of cranium melting, molten sonic frequencies was greeted with fearsome trepidation... Read more »| 02 Oct 2014 -
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Kiasmos – Kiasmos
Kiasmos is all about the slow build. The venture has been more or less resigned to the backburner for the last several years, as collaborators Ólafur ... Read more »| 02 Oct 2014 -
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The Twilight Sad – Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave
When The Twilight Sad stormed into our hearts with their haunted, haunting debut EP, few could’ve detected their nascent crossover impulse. While their... Read more »| 01 Oct 2014 -
Albums...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – IX
Funny thing, perspective. Sometimes a band’s most spectacular achievements come so early that memory renders them frozen in the moment, as with ...Trai... Read more »| 30 Sep 2014 -
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Wampire – Bazaar
The first sound heard on Bazaar is cackling laughter – the kind that might punctuate dastardly villainy of one shade or another. It serves as a droll r... Read more »| 30 Sep 2014
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A Winged Victory for the Sullen – Atomos
A Winged Victory for the Sullen’s self-titled debut predetermined its melancholic mood via evocative track titles (Requiem for the Static King, Steep H... Read more »| 30 Sep 2014 -
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Insect Heroes – Apocalypso
Technically, releasing music these days is a bit of a doddle: fire it online and job’s a good 'un. But getting people to seek out and actually lis... Read more »| 30 Sep 2014 -
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Flying Lotus – You're Dead
You spend most of a certain fellow Warp producer’s exile gaining a rep as one of the most forward-thinking producers around, nipping off for a quick si... Read more »| 30 Sep 2014 -
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Johnny Marr – Playland
There's a freewheeling vitality to Marr's second solo venture that not only lifts the weight of history but makes a mockery of the musical bed-hopping that's... Read more »| 30 Sep 2014 -
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North Atlantic Oscillation – The Third Day
Hardly original but big on heart and soul, this is sophisticated and intelligent dream pop. With the genre tropes of the late 80s shoegaze scene increasingly... Read more »| 26 Sep 2014 -
AlbumsMiss Kenichi – The Trail
"My faith is for real and my mind is free," breathes Katrin Hahner, aka Miss Kenichi, on Who Are You. Like much of The Trail, Hahner's third album as Kenichi... Read more »| 24 Sep 2014 -
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EX HEX – Rips
“I got no regrets,” Mary Timony proclaims, midway through Ex Hex’s debut album. As with many of the tracks here, it’s a worldly-wise ... Read more »| 24 Sep 2014 -
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Die! Die! Die! – SWIM
It’s not all lackadaisical jangles in New Zealand indie rock, y’know. OK, anyone familiar with the proto-slackerisms of the Dunedin Sound might b... Read more »| 24 Sep 2014 -
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RM Hubbert – Ampersand Extras
Oh, this is too much. After three albums of beautiful, lilting guitar instrumentals (to which you could fairly attach genre descriptors like ‘flamenco,... Read more »| 24 Sep 2014