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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AlbumsTapso II – Tapso II
Tapso II are an Italian three-piece with an intuitive awareness of the dynamic possibilities of the power trio: whether via quiet bit/loud bit, fast bit/slow... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010 -
Albums
Weezer – Death To False Metal
Having nerded themselves silly over the past decade, Rivers Cuomo and co take stock of their lengthy career with a bastard collection of material that didn&r... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010 -
AlbumsJC Satàn – Sick of Love
When a band appears with a name like JC Satàn I just want to like them; more so when I discover their tunes come wrapped in the kind of feedback swirl... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010 -
Singles
Remember Remember – RR Scorpii
With its twinkling glockenspiels and lazy trumpets there’s a tinge of the twee about new Remember Remember release RR Scorpii, the first release from f... Read more »| 25 Oct 2010 -
EpDan Korn – Dustbowl EP
Opening with the playful title track - well as playful as one can expect from a supposed tribute to the doomed lives of the Joad family in John Steinbeck&rsq... Read more »| 25 Oct 2010 -
Albums
aM – Belong To Galaxy
The array of adjectives offered to describe Japanese electronica duo aM on the press release to their debut album is enjoyable enough on its own. Anyone up f... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010
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EpIain Shaw – Milk Teeth EP
Milk Teeth is an apt name for this collection as the four songs on offer sound somewhat deciduous, like a prelude for something more permanent and greater to... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
Albums
The Sexual Objects – Cucumber
The Sexual Objects play Freudian games on debut Cucumber. The onanistic connotations of the band/album name combination, along with tracks entitled Full Pene... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
Albums
Sharon Van Etten – Epic
You can’t argue with statistics: if the bland outweighs the good, disappoint beckons. Quality ratios can be kind to the lengthy – an opus like Th... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
Ep
The Gaslamp Killer – Death Gate EP
While psychedelic and Eastern music have all made an impact on hip-hop's sampladelic soundscape in some limited way, few have made the combination sound so n... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
Albums
Nosferatu D2 – We’re Gonna Walk Around This City With Our Headphones On To Block Out The Noise
Thrashing frenetic guitars, and hectic jaw-drop drumming, with what sounds like Zed from Police Academy on vocals - this is a win, win, win situation! Tighte... Read more »| 21 Oct 2010 -
Ep
dBass – Garden EP
Coming off a spate of gigs around the UK, dBass release their Garden EP, and if the 3 tracks don't quite capture the muscular risk-taking of their live attac... Read more »| 21 Oct 2010 -
AlbumsThe Fruit Tree Foundation – First Edition
It’s tempting to be abnormally lenient towards a record borne of a good cause, with lyrical ideas that deal with difficult, easily overwrought themes o... Read more »| 19 Oct 2010 -
Albums
ESG - Dance to the Best of ESG
South Bronx's ESG (Emerald Sappire and Gold) are three street-smart sisters by the name of Scroggins who introduced punks' DIY ethic into dance music way bac... Read more »| 18 Oct 2010 -
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Teebs – Ardour
Los Angeles has never been more protean in dance circles than it is right now and here is Teebs to make the most of the scene's 'Seattle moment'. A collabora... Read more »| 18 Oct 2010