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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AlbumsConquering Animal Sound – On Floating Bodies
Entropy and hydrostatics aren’t your average lyrical fodder, but Conquering Animal Sound (aka Anneke Kampman and James Scott) aren’t your average... Read more »| 28 Feb 2013 -
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Suede – Bloodsports
When Barriers – the first new music from Suede in 10 years – hit as a free download this month it may not have achieved Bowie-level coverage, but... Read more »| 28 Feb 2013 -
AlbumsParenthetical Girls – Privilege
Although touted as the fourth LP from this Portland-based avant-indie quartet, Privilege is technically a compilation, comprising remixed and remas... Read more »| 28 Feb 2013 -
AlbumsTullycraft – Lost in Light Rotation
Lost in Light Rotation comes bouncing through your speakers like a rubber ball dropped from a third floor window. Yet behind these sub-three minute guitar po... Read more »| 28 Feb 2013 -
EpScott & Charlene's Wedding – Two Weeks EP
The nuptials between Erinsborough’s number one sweethearts isn’t the crispest of pop culture references, but it befits a project with its head in... Read more »| 28 Feb 2013 -
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Specter At The Feast
BRMC built their name on sharp blues-rock stompers that were big on hooks and less keen on legible vocals. But as great as Whatever Happened To My Rock N&rsq... Read more »| 28 Feb 2013
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VASQUEZ – EP426
It’s hard to talk about Edinburgh trio VASQUEZ without first acknowledging their debt to the great lineage of progressive instrumental rock bands who t... Read more »| 28 Feb 2013 -
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Daughter – If You Leave
If You Leave is not an album for the impatient. With an average track length of around 8 minutes, and triumphant closer Shallows weighing in at 11, Daug... Read more »| 28 Feb 2013 -
AlbumsBlank Realm – Go Easy
Brisbane’s Blank Realm have evolved from a psych-jam outfit into something more controlled, but the elements of that beginning remain evident on G... Read more »| 28 Feb 2013 -
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Kid Canaveral – Now That You Are a Dancer
With Now That You Are a Dancer, Kid Canaveral make the whole ‘difficult second album’ to-do look terribly passé, offering a textbook ... Read more »| 27 Feb 2013 -
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Aera – Offseason Traveller
The debut LP from this Berlin-based producer, mainly known for his quietly seductive house output, confronts the structural difficulties which LPs sometimes ... Read more »| 27 Feb 2013 -
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Post War Years – Galapagos
All Eyes, the opening track on this Hackney-based quartet’s second LP, opens proceedings with bold but unwieldy bluster: a slow, grandiose would-be ant... Read more »| 27 Feb 2013 -
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Conny Ochs – Black Happy
Best known for his collaboration with doom merchant Wino, German singer-songwriter Conny Ochs returns to a simple solo set-up with second album Black Ha... Read more »| 27 Feb 2013 -
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Brandt Brauer Frick – Miami
Berlin-based trio Brandt Brauer Frick have succeeded in their mission to bring a bit of classical music's style and grace to techno with their two previous a... Read more »| 27 Feb 2013 -
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Julia Kent – Character
Cellist Julia Kent describes third solo album Character in evocatively conceptual terms, its ten instrumental pieces a musical musing on life&rsquo... Read more »| 27 Feb 2013