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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AlbumsConnan Mockasin – Caramel
It’s been a busy period for Erol Alkan’s London-based Phantasy Sound label, with this second LP from New Zealander Connan Mockasin following the ... Read more »| 24 Oct 2013 -
AlbumsTalulah Gosh – Was It Just a Dream?
Superseding the increasingly hard-to-find Backwash compilation, Was It Just a Dream? is the complete Talulah Gosh: 29 tracks encompassing every EP, single, r... Read more »| 24 Oct 2013 -
AlbumsLos Campesinos! – No Blues
What are we going to do about Los Campesinos!? 2011's Hello Sadness gave notice of a shift from the ragged polemic of their early work, Gareth David opting l... Read more »| 22 Oct 2013 -
AlbumsCrystal Antlers – Nothing Is Real
Tricky things, influences. You can reference all the Dinosaur Jr licks or Fugazi rhythms you want, but no-one ever fell in love with tasteful record collecto... Read more »| 21 Oct 2013 -
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Melvins – Tres Cabrones
Despite growling their way into middle age, the Melvins never really seemed the sort of band who’d bother to grow up. The snickering nastiness of their... Read more »| 17 Oct 2013 -
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Laurel Halo – Chance of Rain
It ends as it starts, book-ended by the brief electric piano meanderings of the opening Dr. Echt, and the closing Out. Mini-overture and coda, they house the... Read more »| 15 Oct 2013
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Botany – Lava Diviner (Truestory)
The bizarrely clunky title of Spencer Stephenson’s debut as Botany reflects the LP’s similarly bonkers concept, which narrates the tale of a fict... Read more »| 15 Oct 2013 -
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Apex Zero – Reality Provoking Liberation
Trading in a decidedly old-school form of lyricism that recalls early London pioneers, Apex Zero's raw, manifesto-driven raps have a lot in common with the e... Read more »| 15 Oct 2013 -
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Autechre – L-Event
L-Event finds the veterans delivering a characteristically uncommercial four-track set of inscrutable electronic contortions. Tac Lacora leans hard on metall... Read more »| 14 Oct 2013 -
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Daniel Avery – Drone Logic
Daniel Avery has produced a complex, deeply satisfying debut – like James Holden's The Inheritors, it offers a new blueprint for techno, a million... Read more »| 09 Oct 2013 -
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Saint Rich – Beyond the Drone
This New Jersey duo are best-known for their work as Delicate Steve, an instrumental project in which Christian Peslak provides the support to some virtuosic... Read more »| 09 Oct 2013 -
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DJ Rashad – Double Cup
Trap, footwork and juke all have the potential to be seen as disposable, relying on chopped-up samples, and beats that go as dumb as they go hard. In the han... Read more »| 08 Oct 2013 -
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Russian Circles – Memorial
Varied textures and technical proficiency are just about as common as a big chap grunting into a microphone in the modern metal world, but Chicagoans Russian... Read more »| 08 Oct 2013 -
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Rae & Christian – Mercury Rising
Rae & Christian return after more than a decade with an album inspired by 70s British folk, but the results, recorded and played immaculately, border on ... Read more »| 08 Oct 2013 -
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Future of the Left – How to Stop Your Brain in an Accident
“The music industry is lying to you” preaches Andy Falkous on serrated satire Singing of the Bonesaws, chiding listeners for “[confusing] e... Read more »| 08 Oct 2013