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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AlbumsDawn McCarthy & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – What the Brothers Sang
Last year, Dawn McCarthy and Will Oldham channelled their mutual passion for The Everly Brothers into a festive 7” containing a brace of cover versio... Read more »| 31 Jan 2013 -
AlbumsThao and the Get Down Stay Down – We the Common
On her third album as Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, Thao Nguyen’s nimble genre borrowings pay great dividends. There are touches of porch-front ... Read more »| 31 Jan 2013 -
AlbumsGodsticks – The Envisage Conundrum
The windy-yet-catchy songs laid to tape by Godsticks on their second full-length brings to mind like-minded outfits like Oceansize or Porcupine Tree, but s... Read more »| 31 Jan 2013 -
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Tristan Coleman – Still Life with Sound EP
This EP is Tristan Coleman’s debut release, but the Melbourne-based singer/composer/multi-instrumentalist already evinces an unusual breadth of visi... Read more »| 31 Jan 2013 -
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Fuzzy Lights – Rule of Twelfths
Rule of Twelfths refines an aesthetic nine years and three albums in the making, as Cambridgeshire quintet Fuzzy Lights tweak their pastoral-folk-meets-pos... Read more »| 31 Jan 2013 -
AlbumsFoals – Holy Fire
With Total Life Forever, Foals rejected genre associations like nu-rave and dance-punk by upping the emotional stakes and working ambiance into their bluep... Read more »| 30 Jan 2013
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Galoshins – EP1/EP2
Recorded separately but released concurrently, EP1 and EP2 work well in combination as a single, album-length introduction to Galoshin’s peculiar bril... Read more »| 30 Jan 2013 -
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away
Throughout his thirty year career with the Bad Seeds, Nick Cave has nary put a cloven hoof wrong and fifteenth album Push the Sky Away shows no sign of bucki... Read more »| 30 Jan 2013 -
AlbumsLusine – The Waiting Room
Developing the vocal-led take on house, synth-pop and techno he developed on ’09’s A Certain Distance, Texas-born electronic producer Lusine deli... Read more »| 30 Jan 2013 -
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Team Ghost – Rituals
Following up their two towering EPs in 2010, Team Ghost's much-anticipated full-length debut benefits from the band's expansion – backed by a new ... Read more »| 29 Jan 2013 -
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Megachurch – Megachurch 2: Judgment Day
There's plenty of bands out there adept at tight, fast-paced rock, but this Cleveland trio have a couple of notable quirks to separate them out from the cr... Read more »| 28 Jan 2013 -
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Attica Rage – 88MPH
Attica Rage's third LP since their inception in 2003 couldn't open in a less predictable way for the Ayrshire rawkers. It's only after a pastoral, Led Zepp... Read more »| 24 Jan 2013 -
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The Bronx – The Bronx IV
L.A. punks The Bronx lay their mariachi band alter-ego to one side after a two record stint, returning to a more traditional rock-based sound on their four... Read more »| 24 Jan 2013 -
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Eels – Wonderful, Glorious
In the eyes of die-hards who inhale each passing release, it doesn't matter a great deal what a new Eels album sounds like; Mark E. Everett’s place in... Read more »| 23 Jan 2013 -
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Pissed Jeans – Honeys
Their fourth album proper, their third for Sub Pop, sees Pissed Jeans slowing the tempo in places, delving even deeper into the sludgy, paranoid punk rock th... Read more »| 23 Jan 2013