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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AlbumsPrefuse 73 – The Only She Chapters
Followers of Guillermo Scott Herren’s work as leftfield electronica conjurer Prefuse 73 will naturally expect the unexpected, but his latest full-lengt... Read more »| 04 Apr 2011 -
AlbumsAncient Astronauts - Into Bass and Time
Hip hop, in recent years, has brought us grime, crunk, hyphy and footwork. Producers like Missy Elliot, Timbaland, Kanye, Jay-Z, The Neptunes, Wiley and Ti... Read more »| 04 Apr 2011 -
AlbumsLow – C'mon
Low have been making beautiful albums for almost two decades now, but ninth effort C’mon may stand as their most gorgeous yet. The Minnesota trio have ... Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
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Mono/Poly – Manifestations EP
Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder imprint does a solid line in off-kilter hip-hop productions with soul; the label counts among its prodigious ranks the like... Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
SinglesThe Imagineers - See As I Say
Glasgow 4-piece The Imagineers’ debut EP is nothing if not a promising start, an intriguing blend of 50s rock’n’roll, Scottish twang and ci... Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
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About Group – Start & Complete
About Group is the oddball side project of Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor, compromising John Coxon of Spiritualized, Charles Hayward of This Heat and session... Read more »| 01 Apr 2011
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The Goldberg Sisters – The Goldberg Sisters
Adam Goldberg is The Hebrew Hammer, director of I Love Your Work, Julie Delpy’s squeeze in Two Days in Paris – oh, and Chandler Bing’s nutt... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
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tUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l
How do you follow a debut that fashioned pieces of Dictaphone recordings into a dog-eared – but utterly bewitching – showpiece of low-fidelity po... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
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Something Beginning With L – The Listed Building EP
Don't let the opener of London trio Something Beginning With L’s debut EP deter you from further investigation. Angel Sized might prove to be a... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
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Pat Jordache – Future Songs
Future Songs was first released as a low-quality, self-mastered cassette last summer. It looked destined to remain in such rough form when Pat Jordache&rsquo... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
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Le Reno Amps – Appetite
Amongst the more perplexing criticisms to crop up in reviews is ‘X is not life-changing’. How much personal tumult does a listener actually crave... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
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Orkestra Del Sol – Lung Capacity
There are two ways of setting about summing up Lung Capacity, the latest album from Edinburgh’s brass-steppers extraordinaire. The first would be to fo... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
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Hauschka – Salon des Amateurs
Salon des Amateurs is the latest in a growing collection of releases by risk-taking Düsseldorf-based composer Volker Bertelmann, alias Hauschka – ... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
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OvO – Cor Cordium
Drifting in the limbo between the percussive sludge of Jucifer and the surreal assault of Fantômas is OvO, an Italian duo who have been conducting audi... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
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Kode9 & The Spaceape – Black Sun
Hyperdub has always been the most experimental and forward-thinking of dubstep labels, and the panache with which Kode9 and Spaceape reinvented and deconstru... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011