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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EpWALL – Shoestring EP
WALL made her debut last year with a cover of Karen Dalton's Something On Your Mind, a sparse, understated, synth-led number which showcased her subtle vocal... Read more »| 29 Mar 2013 -
AlbumsLife Coach – Alphawaves
Originally conceived as a solo outlet for Trans Am founder Phil Manley’s homage to late krautrock visionary Conny Plank, this second album as Life Coac... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013 -
AlbumsThe Knife – Shaking the Habitual
Accompanied by a manifesto expressing distaste for the 'already imagined', siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer's first record as The Knife in s... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013 -
AlbumsUncle Acid & the Deadbeats – Mind Control
Mt. Abraxis, the cinematic opener from Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats' second full-length, starts out with sorrowful guitar licks and steadily paced cymbal c... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013 -
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Louie – Lost On Hope Street
The front man of incendiary live hip-hop band Hector Bizerk steps out from the shadows with an intensely personal, viscerally political album of hip-hop trac... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013 -
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Wiley – The Ascent
Another Wiley album, another threat from perhaps the last surviving well-known grime rapper with any credibility left to retire – leaving us to the ten... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013
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Vondelpark – Seabed
When you're stuck in the spaces in-between – on journeys home at uncomfortable dawns, in cold living rooms at the wrong end of the morning – you'... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013 -
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Kurt Vile – Wakin On a Pretty Daze
Album five brings with it a watershed moment in Kurt Vile’s career. Before even pressing play, the vivid colour saturation of the cover and extended tr... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013 -
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Trwbador – Trwbador
Since forming in 2010, Carmarthenshire’s Trwbador (aka Welsh-Dutch singer Angharad Van Rijswijk and guitarist/producer Owain Gwilym) have forged a dist... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013 -
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Roddy Woomble – Listen to Keep
The sleeve for Listen to Keep includes a snap of Roddy Woomble relaxing by a fireplace, shoes off and feet up. The music, meanwhile, evidences Woom... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013 -
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Major Lazer – Free The Universe
Once upon a time Diplo made visionary, psychedelic hip-hop music infused with ragga vocals, artfully distressed samples, and a mercurial approach to beats th... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013 -
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Loch Lomond – Dresses
Now in its tenth year of existence, Ritchie Young’s Loch Lomond project has grown and receded through many guises, moving from solo beginnings to becom... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013 -
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Dear Reader – Rivonia
Dear Reader (the nom-de-plume of South African songwriter Cherilyn MacNeil) has named third album Rivonia after the Johannesburg neighbourhood she ... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013 -
Singles
Dolor – Misteria
Dolor's first official solo release on new label Technicolour doesn't disappoint, after his strong collaboration with Lorn on their Drugs mixtapes – th... Read more »| 26 Mar 2013 -
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Israel Martinez – The Minutes
Comprised of field recordings and samples gathered by Martinez in Mexico and looped, arranged and mutated into a series of ambient reflections on space, moti... Read more »| 26 Mar 2013