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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AlbumsRichard Hawley – Standing At The Sky's Edge
Cave dwellers! One-time Pulp and Longpigs guitarist Richard Hawley found solo success in the mid-noughties by writing melodic baroque pop that perfectly su... Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
AlbumsOne Little Plane – Into the Trees
The second LP from One Little Plane, aka Chicago singer-songwriter Kathryn Bint, is a collection of drowsy, backwoods folk/Americana, underpinned by gentle... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
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Richard Knox & Frédéric D. Oberland – The Rustle of the Stars
Envisioned as a sonic voyage through the vast and barren reaches of the North Pole, this collaborative album between multi-instrumentalist Fréd&eacu... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
AlbumsGringo Star – Count Yer Lucky Stars
With track titles including Esmerelda and Mexican Coma, those new to Gringo Star’s schtick might expect their moniker to directly reference their sou... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
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Two Wings – Love's Spring
Too often, ‘folk’ is used as a rigid template to which musicians adhere far too strictly, rehashing the past rather than creating something new. ... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
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Holy Esque – Holy Esque EP
Holy Esque's self-released debut EP is an auspicious start for the young Glasgow-based band. They have a cathartic, transcendent sound that harks back to t... Read more »| 26 Apr 2012
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AlbumsOFF! – OFF!
In a time when even your average beatdown-heavy 'hardcore' band sounds polished, pristine and conventional, OFF!'s self-titled debut in all its 17-minute g... Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
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Holy Mountain – Earth Measures
A welcome addition to Scotland's heavy rock landscape, Earth Measures' six tracks begin as short, snappy and barbed stabs at punk rock, before evolving int... Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
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▲AIMON – Flatliner
'Witch house' was never a particularly commercial proposition, so it is unsurprising that many artists are unwilling to be plastered with the term, or have d... Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
AlbumsJesus H. Foxx – Endless Knocking
Seven members comprise this leftfield Edinburgh indie outfit, who mingle strings, cornet, and glockenspiel with more orthodox instrumentation. Yet even th... Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
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It Hugs Back – Laughing Party
As if It Hugs Back’s band name wasn’t misleadingly twee enough, Laughing Party’s title and colourful cover seem like a concerted effort to... Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
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Mothlite – Dark Age
Daniel O'Sullivan's acclaimed Ulver has a tendency to traverse a truly abstract path between the realms of shoegaze, metal and black ambient, while his col... Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
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Lower Dens – Nootropics
Nootropics is named after a kind of drug which alters the brain's supply of neurochemicals in order to boost memory and intelligence; and right enough, it ... Read more »| 24 Apr 2012 -
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Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury – DROKK: Music Inspired By Mega-City One
Geoff Barrow of Portishead and film score composer Ben Salisbury have created something truly original in DROKK, their soundtrack for Mega-City One, home o... Read more »| 20 Apr 2012 -
Singles
Forget Me Not ft. Neo – What Were You Gonna Say?
A new electronic label based in Edinburgh, Diamond & Raw have looked beyond the capital for their first release. Production talent is courtesy of Brist... Read more »| 19 Apr 2012