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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EpThe Violet May – TV EP
That Sheffield could produce a band with a sound straight out of the Mojave Desert may seem incredulous but, make no mistake, these sleazy, swaggering riffs ... Read more »| 22 Jun 2011 -
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Pensioner – Yearlings
The debut from Dundee math-rock quartet Pensioner provides some of the most indisputably silly song titles you'll ever encounter (this writer was particularl... Read more »| 22 Jun 2011 -
EpTrapped Mice – Waving and Pointing EP
After Portrait of the Great Father saw Edinburgh’s Trapped Mice set out a confident but fairly conventional indie-rock stall, Waving and Pointing sees ... Read more »| 21 Jun 2011 -
AlbumsBreaking the Day – Survived By None
Since the days of Black Sabbath, Britain has been renowned as the birthplace of heaviness but it’s been a while since anything has come close to that s... Read more »| 21 Jun 2011 -
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Ramesses – Possessed by the Rise of Magick
There’s a stark, frost-ridden quality to opener Invisible Ritual that makes itself apparent within seconds, brought forth by buzzsaw guitars and vitrio... Read more »| 21 Jun 2011 -
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Pinky Suavo – Go for the Gills EP
When your name is taken from an episode of Pinky and the Brain, it’s an immediate sign of genius, an appraisal that’s backed up by the high stand... Read more »| 21 Jun 2011
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AlbumsBrontide – Sans Souci
Math-rock has lost its way somewhat in recent years, hamstrung by the need to develop an ever-more technically complex sound and compositional approach in or... Read more »| 21 Jun 2011 -
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Gomez – Whatever's On Your Mind
Perhaps best known as the second-most preposterous winners of the Mercury Music Prize for their 1998 debut Bring it On (a list that M People will surely top ... Read more »| 21 Jun 2011 -
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Bong – Beyond Ancient Space
The opening of none-doomier Bong’s latest is truly breathtaking, an omnipresent drone from the bowels of the earth that grows and swells over an aeon w... Read more »| 21 Jun 2011 -
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Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds - Gorilla Rose
Bo Bo Boogaloo is nothing if not a promising start, a vibrant spectacle that shows off a vast knowledge of krautrock and prog-friendly tenets and glues them ... Read more »| 21 Jun 2011 -
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White Heath – Take No Thought For Tomorrow
This Edinburgh-based quintet layer dark, sombre ballads with a diverse range of live instrumentation, incorporating strings, guitar, trombone and piano. Acco... Read more »| 16 Jun 2011 -
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Fink – Perfect Darkness
Transitioning from his role as a successful DJ and producer to that of Ninja Tune peddler of folk-inflected acoustica back in 2006, Fin 'Fink' Greenall&rsquo... Read more »| 13 Jun 2011 -
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Fucked Up – David Comes to Life
David Comes to Life is one tough nut to crack. A sprawling, 80-minute hardcore punk rock opera, its description alone makes it seem destined for disaster. An... Read more »| 13 Jun 2011 -
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Tellison – The Wages Of Fear
Now that our, admittedly feeble, Scottish summer is in full bloom it’s only right that shelves begin to fill with bright’n’breezy emotional... Read more »| 13 Jun 2011 -
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Dennis Hopper Choppers - Be Ready
There are fundamentally two sides to Ben Nicholls’ latest incarnation of DHC: that of the lonesome wanderer, singing forlorn desert-bleached odes to lo... Read more »| 08 Jun 2011