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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AlbumsSinkane – MARS
Wiping the slate of less distinctive past releases, Sinkane (Sudanese New Yorker Ahmed Abdullahi Gallab) presents MARS as a re-boot debut – a fresh sta... Read more »| 29 Nov 2012 -
AlbumsThe Douglas Firs – The Furious Sound
Albums about the superstitious persecution of woman are like buses, it seems. A month after Darren Hayman’s The Violence set the witch trials of 17th&n... Read more »| 28 Nov 2012 -
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St Deluxe – Born Into Flame
Welcome back St Deluxe, the well-connected Glasgow scuzz rockers with a penchant for pop hooks and heavy guitars. Their 2009 debut attracted some celebrity... Read more »| 28 Nov 2012 -
AlbumsVarious Artists – Whatever Gets You Through the Night
Having cycled through theatre and film iterations, Cora Bissett, David Greig and Swimmer One’s multimedia Whatever Gets You through the Night project a... Read more »| 27 Nov 2012 -
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Steve Adey – The Tower of Silence
It’s taken Edinburgh-based songwriter Steve Adey six years to follow up debut album All Things Real, for reasons ranging from tropical maladies to obs... Read more »| 27 Nov 2012 -
AlbumsThe Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness [Deluxe Edition]
As is fitting for one of the most ambitious and indulgent commercial rock records of the 1990s, this extravagant reissue takes Mellon Collie's greatness as ... Read more »| 27 Nov 2012
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Melanin 9 – Magna Carta
Magna Carta is the debut album from Melanin 9, although he has already gained a great deal of acclaim and recognition for his three mixtapes, Orion's Stencil... Read more »| 27 Nov 2012 -
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Sunbutler – Sunbutler
Made using just five sounds from an old FM synthesiser, and worked on remotely by Joe Howe (aka Ben Butler & Mousepad / Germlin / Gay Against You) and ... Read more »| 27 Nov 2012 -
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Menagerie – They Shall Inherit
Lance Ferguson has already demonstrated the eclecticism of his influences, in projects ranging from Lanu’s lounge-pop to his main concern, funk outfi... Read more »| 27 Nov 2012 -
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Fairhorns – Doki Doki Run
Matt Loveridge of Team Brick and BEAK> is a veteran Invada player, one of the core constituents of the label run by Portishead's Geoff Barrow. On this sol... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
AlbumsVarious Artists – Some Songs Side-By-Side
Jointly assembled by a trio of labels, with 22 tracks across four sides of vinyl and artwork from eight different artists, this endeavour is evidently more... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
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Martin Rossiter – The Defenestration of St Martin
Eight years since the curtain came down on Gene, Martin Rossiter has lost none of his earnestness or theatricality. Grandly opening the grandly titled The ... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
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Waves of Fury – Thirst
It doesn’t take long to get a handle on Waves of Fury. A few seconds of distorted piano ease you in to opener Death of a Vampire, then BAM! – a ... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
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Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra – Towards Other Worlds
The second LP from Leeds’ Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra continues where their self-titled 2010 debut left off; the nine-piece’s musical ancestry rem... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
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The Scantharies – The Scantharies
On paper, The Scantharies is a somewhat eccentric project: Andy Dragazis, an Anglo-Greek songwriter, set out to create a greatest hits compilation for an i... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012