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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AlbumsAdrian Crowley - Season of the Sparks
The trees may be bare and the nights all-encompassing, but comfort at least can be found in the fact that people are still making heartfelt and generous reco... Read more »| 26 Oct 2009 -
AlbumsOwen Tromans & The Elders - The Fall of Acre
According to the press release, this is an album of two movements. Perhaps predictably, all the big guns are saved for the second half, which, despite buildi... Read more »| 26 Oct 2009 -
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Tori Amos - Midwinter Graces
An unabashed attempt to bring some credibility to surely one of the most teeth-gritting genres known Read more »| 26 Oct 2009 -
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The Tragically Hip - We Are The Same
Latest offering from the Canadian stalwarts is occasionally excellent, but frustrating on the whole Read more »| 26 Oct 2009 -
AlbumsGentle Friendly - Ride Slow
Of all the press-invented scenes tipped for great things at the beginning of 2009, sprawling lo-fi psych pop was not among them; though it has been spurred o... Read more »| 26 Oct 2009 -
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Foreign Beggars - United Colours of Beggattron
Now that Mike Skinner is making records fit only for covermounting with Sunday supplements and Dizzee Rascal is topping the charts with saccharine pop that s... Read more »| 24 Oct 2009
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Paul Haig – Relive
If shock and awe was the plan, this is certainly mission accomplished. Read more »| 23 Oct 2009 -
AlbumsLoch Lomond/The Builders and the Butchers - Split 12"
Demonstrating Scottish label Song By Toad’s talent-spotting credentials, this 12” combines two acts plucked from Portland’s teeming music s... Read more »| 23 Oct 2009 -
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The Gothenburg Address - The Gothenburg Address
The Gothenburg Address have two on guitars, one on bass, one on drums and zero on vocals; looks like it’s time to dig out the Post-Rock Thesaurus. So, ... Read more »| 23 Oct 2009 -
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Sufjan Stevens/Osso - Run Rabbit Run
Enjoy Your Rabbit occupies a unique place in Sufjan Stevens’ discography due to its Chinese calendar (rather than US geography) theme and a glitchy ele... Read more »| 23 Oct 2009 -
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Laura Gibson - Beasts of Season
For all its organic charms, this is a record destined to skim the ears as late night silence-filler Read more »| 23 Oct 2009 -
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Cuddly Shark - Cuddly Shark
This album would make more sense if it was made by a group of long-haired, intensely trendy, drug-hungry young dudes from Brooklyn or Austin, Texas, and if i... Read more »| 23 Oct 2009 -
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Converge - Axe to Fall
The undisputed kings of modern progressive hardcore Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
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Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Arriving hot on the heels of last year’s gloriously hypnotic skull-rattling debut Street Horrrsing, the quick turnaround of Fuck Buttons’ second ... Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
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Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
If La Roux and her silly quiff and slices of radio-friendly synth-pop hark back to the frivolity of the early eighties, Cold Cave summon up the darker spirit... Read more »| 22 Oct 2009