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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AlbumsThe Bug – Angels & Devils
This isn't the Bug album you are expecting. By splitting the album in two, Kevin Martin addresses some big themes and shows himself to be a producer of remar... Read more »| 06 Aug 2014 -
AlbumsRustie – Green Language
There's a playfulness to the opening sections of Green Language – we are treated to three false starts, Rustie delivering riffs of staggering infe... Read more »| 06 Aug 2014 -
AlbumsThe New Pornographers – Brill Bruisers
Perhaps it’s just the afterglow imparted by the pristine, peppy power-pop that’s been their stock in trade for the last 15 years, but life in The... Read more »| 06 Aug 2014 -
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James Yorkston – The Cellardyke Recording and Wassailing Society
James Yorkston’s eighth album of original material finds the erudite Fifer facing up to mortality in his most sparse and contemplative album to date. Y... Read more »| 06 Aug 2014 -
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Kan Wakan – Moving On
The free-wheeling debut from this LA-based trio is a winning concoction of dreamy atmospherics, bubbling grooves and orchestral arrangements. It’s a to... Read more »| 30 Jul 2014 -
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Benjamin Booker – Benjamin Booker
“The future is slow coming,” laments Benjamin Booker on the fourth track of his debut album and the first chance for the listener to catch breath... Read more »| 30 Jul 2014
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Rumour Cubes – Appearances of Collections
Oh, this is a beauty. Don’t let it get lost in the bewildering murk of the release calendar, or side-lined by the fickle fancies of the taste-makers. S... Read more »| 30 Jul 2014 -
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Grumbling Fur – Preternaturals
There'd be browned pants galore, should any of the current delay-pedal toting garage rock crop masquerading as 'psychedelic' delve as deeply into the mind's ... Read more »| 30 Jul 2014 -
AlbumsCelebration – Albumin
Celebration was born in 2004, when Katrina Ford, Sean Antanaitis and David Bergander dropped the name Birdland for something with more of a triumphant tone. ... Read more »| 30 Jul 2014 -
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The Ramona Flowers – Dismantle and Rebuild
There’s a particular seam within the current indie strata that’s all but been mined out. The mass hunger for sweeping, fist-pumping anthemics, ho... Read more »| 29 Jul 2014 -
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Owl John – Owl John
The Frightened Rabbit frontman continues his adventures in songwriting with a more experimental but hugely enjoyable solo LP Read more »| 29 Jul 2014 -
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Soft Walls – No Time
Confession time. When Cold Pumas dropped their debut in 2012, this hack was thoroughly unimpressed. I said as much via a clumsy whine on a reputable reviews ... Read more »| 29 Jul 2014 -
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Adult Jazz – Gist Is
There's something reluctant about Adult Jazz's debut LP. The four-piece, Leeds Uni alumni and students of Joanna Newsom, Van Morrison and Animal Collective, ... Read more »| 29 Jul 2014 -
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FKA Twigs – LP1
LP1. Love that. Dismissive of the po-faced, bow-down-before-me hubris displayed by most féted progeny, Tahliah Barnett opts for low key and ego-free. ... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
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Trans Am – Volume X
There’s a mind-blowing moment halfway through Night Shift, the third track on Trans Am’s Volume X; having shuffled gloriously through two mi... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014