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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AlbumsLukid – Lonely at the Top
Although previous Lukid records have always been beautifully complex and intricate, they have also been fairly easy to place within contemporary electroni... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
SinglesThe Dirty Dozen – October 2012
Recovering at his Edinburgh home from a nasty chest infection, Dan ‘Withered Hand’ Willson dutifully bunkers down to the healing sounds of October’s single releases Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
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Bat for Lashes – The Haunted Man
The biggest difference between The Haunted Man and 2009's Two Suns is in the presentation – gone are the intricate, ornate, quasi-mystical visual trapp... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
AlbumsWHY? – Mumps, etc.
Alopecia and Eskimo Snow saw WHY? distance themselves from the hip-hop template that defined their earlier albums as Yoni Wolf’s neurotic drawl playe... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
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PAWS – Cokefloat!
Recorded on a boat moored on the Thames, it's easy to imagine that this much-anticipated debut album from garage pop rockers PAWS could have sunk under the... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
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Gav Prentice – The Invisible Hand
You can appreciate why Over the Wall’s Gav Prentice felt the need to release these songs under his own name, as opposed to incorporating them into th... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012
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Errors – New Relics
For a band whose last LP has largely come to be considered their most accomplished to date, it’s no wonder that Errors have, with this mini album relea... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
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We Are the Physics – Your Friend, The Atom
There's always been a touch of crazy to Scotland's most lauded musicians. Orange Juice were awash with art school exhibitionism; mid-career Primal Scream wer... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
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Tenebrous Liar – End of the Road
Since NME photographer Steve Gullick formed Tenebrous Liar in 2006, they’ve racked up an improbable seven LPs of roughly-hewn, heart-on-sleeve grungy ... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
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Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs – Sunday Run Me Over
Sunday Run Me Over is Holly Golightly’s fifth album in five years with Lawyer Dave (aka one-man backing band The Brokeoffs). For most artists, this w... Read more »| 01 Oct 2012 -
AlbumsSeaming – Seaming
Having worked with the Cinematic Orchestra, Leila, Herbaliser and a whole host of other seminal musicians and bands, not to mention being a core member of Ho... Read more »| 01 Oct 2012 -
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Two Gallants – The Bloom and the Blight
The numerical value held within their name has been a thread throughout Two Gallants’ work. For there has always been a duality about the work of the S... Read more »| 01 Oct 2012 -
AlbumsMenomena – Moms
Menomena's fifth album follows the departure of co-founder Brent Knopf from the Portland outfit; commendable, then, that remaining members Justin Harris ... Read more »| 01 Oct 2012 -
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Rebekka Karijord – We Become Ourselves
It's the female singer-songwriter cliché: Rebekka Karijord's soul is laid bare on her fourth LP. The icy Scandinavian atmosphere of these songs will... Read more »| 01 Oct 2012 -
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Beth Orton – Sugaring Season
Thank God Beth Orton has that voice. Now more than ever, it’s the most pronounced separation between her and the less cool plethora of Radio 2-favoured... Read more »| 28 Sep 2012