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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AlbumsRM Hubbert – Thirteen Lost & Found
First & Last was perhaps ungenerously characterised as a ‘low-key introduction’ to RM Hubbert’s solo methods within these pages as we g... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
AlbumsMull Historical Society – City Awakenings
After two albums under his own name, Colin MacIntyre has readopted his former moniker for the first time in eight years. While the intervening releases only ... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
AlbumsTrent Reznor and Atticus Ross – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Excepting its first and final tracks (a dated-sounding industrial take on Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song featuring Karen O, and a tough, icy interpretation ... Read more »| 19 Jan 2012 -
EpMachinedrum – SXLND EP
Travis Stewart has made a conspicuous habit of excellence in the last year. In Room(s) and Sepalcure (his project with Praveen Sharma, aka Braille), 2011 had... Read more »| 16 Jan 2012 -
Albums
All the Saints – Intro To Fractions
This second offering from Atlanta's All The Saints finds the band chin deep in psychedelic shoegaze. Like their debut, they continue to take cues from Englis... Read more »| 10 Jan 2012 -
AlbumsChris Devotion and the Expectations – Amalgamation & Capital
Encounter Amalgamation & Capital anonymously and you might presume it a greatest hits rather than a debut, its no-nonsense new-wave suggesting a lost gen... Read more »| 10 Jan 2012
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Singles
The Dirty Dozen – January 2012
Mike Palmer and Sean Smith of We Were Promised Jetpacks exercise diplomacy on the January singles Read more »| 09 Jan 2012 -
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Porcelain Raft – Strange Weekend
Having impressed with four eclectic EPs (most notably last year's Gone Blind) and stirred significant buzz at 2011’s SXSW, Porcelain Raft release debut... Read more »| 05 Jan 2012 -
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Rodrigo y Gabriela and C.U.B.A. – Area 52
The latest twist in Mexican acoustic duo Rodrigo y Gabriela's unpredictable career – which has taken in folk, Latin and rock styles, and most recently ... Read more »| 05 Jan 2012 -
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Francois & The Atlas Mountains – E Volo Love
Saintes-born Francois Marry has been on Scottish radars for some time already, as a continental cousin of Fence (who released previous album Plaine Inondable... Read more »| 05 Jan 2012 -
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Kathleen Edwards – Voyageur
The fruits of a few years' absence and an ongoing collaboration with Bon Iver figurehead Justin Vernon, Voyageur presents a more developed, confident, and ar... Read more »| 05 Jan 2012 -
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Swilson – Demonology
Obscurely pitched as 'satanic psychedelic loner rock,' Swilson is certainly an enigmatic entity, with pictures of the band being virtually impossible to come... Read more »| 05 Jan 2012 -
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Smashing Pumpkins – Gish [Deluxe Edition] /Siamese Dream [Deluxe Edition]
Being a Smashing Pumpkins fan may be a trying experience, but it's rarely a boring one Read more »| 04 Jan 2012 -
Singles
Divorce / Jailhouse Fuck – Split 10"
While some split records wobble under the incompatibility of their contributors, this 10" is a perfectly matched collision of our own female-fronted no-wave ... Read more »| 04 Jan 2012 -
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Wino & Conny Ochs – Heavy Kingdom
Former Obsessed front-man and Dave Grohl-collaborator Wino takes a break from his usual, riff-driven pummelling rock for some acoustic down-time. In this cas... Read more »| 04 Jan 2012