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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AlbumsPanda 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 -
AlbumsPond – 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 -
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Disappears – 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 -
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
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Southern 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 -
AlbumsDan 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 -
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Sleater-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