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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AlbumsPAWS – Youth Culture Forever
PAWS took the brave decision to handle production duties of Youth Culture Forever themselves, a bold move that other groups have lived to regret. But the Gla... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
AlbumsHowling Bells – Heartstrings
Motherhood has kept Juanita Stein and Howling Bells off the radar these past years and fourth album Heartstrings must surely be a test of their staying ... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
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Hamilton Leithauser – Black Hours
With The Walkmen currently on an “extreme hiatus,” frontman Hamilton Leithauser strikes out alone with solo debut Black Hours. Well, not entirely... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
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The Acid – Liminal
Eleven kinds of loneliness, wrote Yates; here’s eleven tracks of it. Appropriately named threesome The Acid (Ry X, Steve Nalepa, and Adam Freeland) ser... Read more »| 26 May 2014 -
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Emma Ruth Rundle – Some Heavy Ocean
In a similar vein to label-mate Chelsea Wolfe, there's a certain desolation and sparseness to Emma Ruth Rundle's sound that's both mysterious and alluring. T... Read more »| 26 May 2014 -
AlbumsJerry David DeCicca – Understanding Land
The Black Swans are no more, their fifth and final album, 2012’s Occasion For Song, a frank meditation on the loss of band member Noel Sayre. Sayre was... Read more »| 26 May 2014
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The Hazey Janes – Language of Faint Theory
For their fourth album, Dundee’s The Hazey Janes returned to El Puerto De Santa Maria – the small Andalusian city where they’d recorded deb... Read more »| 26 May 2014 -
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Sleep Party People – Floating
Somnambulant dreampop project Sleep Party People is the tincture of one Brian Batz, a rabbit-masked Dane with a knack for crafting layered, shoegaze lullabye... Read more »| 26 May 2014 -
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Fis – Iterations EP
New Zealand producer Fis moves even further away from the drum and bass genre that birthed him - since he signed to Tri-Angle, he has been exploring far stranger sonic realms Read more »| 24 May 2014 -
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Hamell On Trial – The Happiest Man In The World
Difficult to know what to make of Ed Hamell. He’s an intelligent and articulate singer-songwriter, at something of a rarely-considered midpoint between... Read more »| 24 May 2014 -
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Plaid – Reachy Prints
Returning in 2011 with the somewhat underwhelming Scintilli, Plaid have kept their hand in, but Reachy Prints sees them return with gusto to the ambitious sonic realms of their golden age, and deliver an album that almost ranks with their best Read more »| 19 May 2014 -
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Tuff Love – Junk EP
Johnny Lynch’s first new signings since he transplanted the bulk of the Fence roster to his new Lost Map label, Glasgow trio Tuff Love are already dab ... Read more »| 15 May 2014 -
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WIFE – What's Between
Perhaps the most accessible release so far from the unimpeachable Tri-Angle label, WIFE offers up his full-length debut, a gleaming, polished collection of g... Read more »| 15 May 2014 -
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Martha – Courting Strong
"Now I may be a reject / But to tell the truth, you’re scarier than a prefect." With every dimwit commentator lauding the recent past as some hazy utop... Read more »| 14 May 2014 -
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Alias – Pitch Black Prism
Heralding a switch from his MPC-based productions to the more synthetic sounds of the Native Instruments Machine, there is a certain linearity to the drum pr... Read more »| 14 May 2014