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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AlbumsFrightened Rabbit – Pedestrian Verse
Though divisive may be a strong word, 2010’s The Winter of Mixed Drinks certainly eked out differing opinions on the direction Frightened Rabbit were ... Read more »| 01 Feb 2013 -
AlbumsUniversal Sex Arena – Women Will Be Girls
Look beyond the sleazy triumvirate of band name, album title and cover art (a kitsch bunga bunga fantasy in pen and watercolour), and the debut album from ... Read more »| 01 Feb 2013 -
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 -
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Thao 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 -
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Godsticks – 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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AlbumsFuzzy 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 -
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Foals – 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 -
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Lusine – 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