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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EpTeam Ghost – Celebrate What You Can’t See EP
Following on from this year’s earlier EP You Never Did Anything Wrong To Me, former M83 founder Nicolas Fromageau and ‘sparring partner’ Ch... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
AlbumsWino – Adrift
As he approaches fifty, metal stalwart and doom-progenitor Scott ‘Wino’ Weinrich apparently fancies himself a singer-songwriter of the Cash/Dylan... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
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Kurt Wagner & Cortney Tidwell Present Kort – Invariable Heartache
As musical partnerships go, Kurts and Cortneys go together less like a horse and carriage than a horse and a grunge Yoko prone to worrying Twitter-spasms. We... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
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Squarepusher presents Shobaleader One – d'Demonstrator
Whether or not its highly dubious back-story is a smoke screen (allegedly Shobaleader One is a band formed by Tom Jenkinson together with a bunch of ... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
AlbumsThe Last Battle – Heart of the Land, Soul of the Sea
For a band of six, Edinburgh’s The Last Battle sport a frail, minimal sound on debut album Heart of the Land, Soul of the Sea, based almost entirely on... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
AlbumsGlasser – Ring
Glasser is Cameron Mesirow, a precociously gifted songwriter who, in crude splicing terms, evokes a Bat For Lashes/Dirty Projectors love affair on her revela... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010
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AlbumsIain Campbell – ABSOLUTELY the best ABBA since ABBA
With numerous high-profile and high-concept multi-media performances and exhibitions now under his belt, the man formerly trading under the moniker +Do-NEIMA... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
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The Phantom Band – The Wants
Following on from last years’ blindsiding debut Checkmate Savage, feral Glaswegian sextet The Phantom Band have wasted precious little time in surfing ... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
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Belle & Sebastian – Write About Love
If the near-five year wait since The Life Pursuit and last year’s brilliant brace of albums from Camera Obscura and Butcher Boy led you to question Bel... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
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Warpaint – The Fool
Court martial! On charges of worst band-related misnomer since Mogwai entitled a post-rock album Happy Songs for Happy People. Los Angeles all-lady four-piec... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
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Heidi Talbot – The Last Star
Made in Ireland and based in Edinburgh, Heidi Talbot's lilting cadence may be most familiar as a collaborator with Drever, McCusker and Woomble and I... Read more »| 27 Sep 2010 -
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Roska & Untold - Myth
Omnipotent IDM megalith Hyperdub haven't ringfenced the entire flock of elite UK Funky 12" quite yet – Numbers’ latest offering from me... Read more »| 27 Sep 2010 -
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Engineers – In Praise of More
With the release of 2009’s Three Fact Fader being delayed due to undisclosed band politics, it may seem par for the course that London-based Engineers ... Read more »| 27 Sep 2010 -
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Colour of Sound – When
Self-declared “epic” indie band Colour of Sound sonically explore every hue from grey to vanilla on debut album When. Their brand of mid-tempo, i... Read more »| 27 Sep 2010 -
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Ice, Sea, Dead People – Teeth Union
Upon being confronted with a record by a band called Ice, Sea, Dead People and an accompanying press release consisting of a short story chronicling an incid... Read more »| 27 Sep 2010