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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AlbumsDigital Leather - Warm Brother
Opening up with a field-recording of wounded analogue synths weeping in deep space before segueing into a dirge about self-destruction on an island of pain i... Read more »| 29 Oct 2009 -
SinglesJamie Cullum - I'm All Over It
Clint Eastwood is cool: he was cool as a young buck chewing cigar butts and he’s still cool as a wiry pensioner. It would take something monumentally u... Read more »| 29 Oct 2009 -
SinglesFrightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land
Frightened Rabbit's success is based on nothing resembling modernity: ever since the first lovesick caveman grunted a tune, his descendants have been... Read more »| 28 Oct 2009 -
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Beaten Awake - Thunder$troke
Great bands always add up to more than the sum of their parts. Given the pedigree of Beaten Awake's membership (they're ostensibly the cream of the Ohio indi... Read more »| 28 Oct 2009 -
AlbumsKing Khan & BBQ Show - Invisible Girl
One can’t accuse King Khan or Mark Sultan (aka BBQ) of laziness: following their Almighty Defenders ‘supergroup’ LP, the pair fire off Invi... Read more »| 27 Oct 2009 -
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Adrian 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
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Owen 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 -
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Gentle 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 -
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Loch 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