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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AlbumsHoneyblood – Honeyblood
In tone, Stina Tweeddale’s vocals on Super Rat are disarmingly sweet; in content, they’re scintillatingly vitriolic. “I will hate you forev... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
AlbumsClaude Speeed – My Skeleton
Releases like My Skeleton ground LuckyMe in a more vibrant, experimental milieu than even their brightly-hued, dancefloor-led 12"s. Composed by Stuart T... Read more »| 26 Jun 2014 -
EpAnna Calvi – Strange Weather EP
Anna Calvi has defined herself as a singer-songwriter who trades in the markets of gloom and theatrics. With this EP, she has sought to apply her craft to th... Read more »| 26 Jun 2014 -
AlbumsMatthewdavid – In My World
Matthewdavid's second album for Brainfeeder is a very different beast to the ambient, experimental textures of his debut, Outmind. Where that album expl... Read more »| 25 Jun 2014 -
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Tut Vu Vu – Slow Sound Horn EP
Footsteps on a wooden floor. Then a drifting backbeat leads into schizoid trumpet and a decidedly unsettling organ motif. Suddenly, ‘Gallic psyche noir... Read more »| 25 Jun 2014 -
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Bright Light Bright Light – Life Is Easy
Rod Thomas has feelings, and he wants you to know about them. Over a backdrop of super-polished disco beats, he implores us earnestly to know how it feels to... Read more »| 24 Jun 2014
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Secret Cities – Walk Me Home
The North Dakota trio’s likeable third album purloins in the best possible way: artfully. Bad Trip pits Marie Parker’s reedy vocals against a bac... Read more »| 23 Jun 2014 -
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Young British Artists – Change by Any Other Name
Get ready to fall, and fall hard. After so many false starts in the town this past couple of years, Young British Artists are a Manchester band who mould her... Read more »| 19 Jun 2014 -
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Dalhous – Will To Be Well
A wordless ambient concept album about pioneering Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing might sound like too conceptual a proposition for some electronica fans, b... Read more »| 19 Jun 2014 -
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Plank – Hivemind
Manchester's Plank play with Krautrock in a slightly more groove-based way than fellow motorik warriors BEAK>, delivering a head-nodding collection of mat... Read more »| 18 Jun 2014 -
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Fhloston Paradigm – The Phoenix
Philadelphian producer King Britt returns to his science fiction-inspired Fhloston Paradigm project, which sees him switching from the soulful techno of his ... Read more »| 18 Jun 2014 -
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Sole & DJ Pain 1 – Death Drive
Over beats by DJ Pain 1, America's most fiercely independent rapper is on fiery form, expressing contempt for contemporary hip-hop's avaricious, money-grabbi... Read more »| 18 Jun 2014 -
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Moebius Story Leidecker – Snowghost Pieces
The new album by Cluster co-founder Dieter Moebius in collaboration with American composers and electronic producers Tim Story and Jon Leidecker (Negati... Read more »| 17 Jun 2014 -
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Glass Animals – ZABA
“Put your hand down boy, welcome to my zoo,” beckons Glass Animals frontman Dave Bayley on Toes, one of many ornate tracks in the Oxford quartet'... Read more »| 16 Jun 2014 -
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Remember Remember – Forgetting The Present
If the sole mark of a good band is the consistent progression of a singular sound whilst remaining true to a core ethos, then Glasgow sextet Remember Remembe... Read more »| 11 Jun 2014