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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AlbumsSix. By Seven – Love and Peace and Sympathy
Following a brief spell in the limelight in the late 90s with their debut The Things We Make – a record which sat somewhere between Britpop&r... Read more »| 26 Jun 2013 -
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Strangers Family Band – Strangers Family Band
Back in 2010, Floridian psychedelic rock quartet Strangers Family Band promised their debut would be a sixteen track concept album in the Sgt Peppers/Vi... Read more »| 26 Jun 2013 -
AlbumsRoedelius Schneider – Tiden
Between them, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Stefan Schneider have contributed significantly to the development of ambient music since the 70s: Roedelius through... Read more »| 25 Jun 2013 -
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Teho Teardo and Blixa Bargeld – Still Smiling
This collaboration between Einstürzende Neubauten’s Blixa Bargeld and Italian composer Teho Teardo reveals a strikingly symbiotic relationship bet... Read more »| 25 Jun 2013 -
AlbumsWalton – Beyond
Walton moves away from the dubstep and garage sounds of his early EPs, broadening his scope to take in influences from house, techno and experimental electro... Read more »| 24 Jun 2013 -
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Bosnian Rainbows – Bosnian Rainbows
Former At The Drive-In / The Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López and Les Butcherettes founder Teri Gender Bender come from dist... Read more »| 21 Jun 2013
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Loki – Edging God Out
The old retirement-and-comeback trick is a hip-hop staple, so how has it worked out for Loki, one of Scotland's most lyrically gifted writers and rappers?&nb... Read more »| 20 Jun 2013 -
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Austra – Olympia
Kate Stelmanis is a classically trained former opera singer but on album number two, Olympia, her voice imparts drama for its very lack of rhapsody. It&... Read more »| 19 Jun 2013 -
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Zomby – With Love
Excepting its mammoth run-time, With Love feels similar in both form and execution to Zomby's previous album, Dedication. This time the shadow... Read more »| 18 Jun 2013 -
SinglesSonic Hearts Foundation – Into Forever
Glasgow's Sonic Hearts Foundation claim to have three album's worth of material under their collective belt, and it shows – from the opening elect... Read more »| 14 Jun 2013 -
AlbumsJon Hopkins – Immunity
"King Creosote and who??" was the cry from many a Scot when Anstruther's finest unveiled 2011's seminal collaborative work Diamond Mine. Largely unknown... Read more »| 14 Jun 2013 -
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μ-Ziq – Chewed Corners
Planet Mu founder and UK electronic music veteran Mike Paradinas returns with a new album under his revered μ-Ziq guise, his first under that moniker sinc... Read more »| 12 Jun 2013 -
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Matthew Herbert – The End of Silence
Utilising a single ten-second audio recording as the sole sound source for an entire LP, Matthew Herbert has created one of his boldest and most thought-prov... Read more »| 11 Jun 2013 -
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Anna Von Hausswolff – Ceremony
If you think the title of Ceremony’s opening instrumental Epitaph of Theodor sounds grandiose, wait till you hear its brooding church organ melody... Read more »| 11 Jun 2013 -
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oOoOO – Without Your Love
Like fellow Tri-Angle associates Balam Acab and Holy Other, the 'witch house' tag simply doesn't fit oOoOO's debut album. It is perhaps better described... Read more »| 07 Jun 2013