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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AlbumsBEAK> - BEAK>
Passive readers of certain mainstream music publications may have noticed an increasingly recurring namedrop recently: 1970s krautrock daddies Neu! are cool ... Read more »| 18 Nov 2009 -
SinglesNight Noise Team - Menolick
Pulsing harmonic arpeggios and a propulsive beat launch Night Noise Team’s debut single; a persuasively vibrant introduction to a song that nev... Read more »| 17 Nov 2009 -
AlbumsCollapse Under The Empire - Find A Place To Be Safe
Instrumental “post-rock” commanded a great deal of attention and respect during its initial explosion in the early 90s, but what was once... Read more »| 17 Nov 2009 -
Singles
French Wives - Halloween/Dogfight
Creeping into earshot like next door's violin practice, Halloween is a bit of a slow-burner. Taking it's time to simmer from brittle, twinkling folk into chu... Read more »| 16 Nov 2009 -
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Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
What do you get when you cross Led Zep’s John Paul Jones with Jimmy Page worshipper and Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, and Dave Grohl &nd... Read more »| 16 Nov 2009 -
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Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
The notion of lineage looms large for many heavy metal subgenres, and probably none more so than that of stoner doom. Consequently, this debut collaboration ... Read more »| 16 Nov 2009
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AlbumsBlueflint - High Bright Morning
With First Aid Kit spearheading the current 'traditional' revival within mainstream folk, the time seems ripe for talented Edinburgh duo Blueflint to cross o... Read more »| 10 Nov 2009 -
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Violet Violet - The City is Full of Beasts
At its heart, punk ditched glam spectacle for raw emotion, rejecting bourgeois musical virtuosity because it had nothing to say to the disaffected yo... Read more »| 10 Nov 2009 -
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The Kabeedies - Rumpus
The Kabeedies are not a band, they're a collection of new wave robots -seemingly powered by sherbert dip and cherry coke- who bang out pop with such single m... Read more »| 09 Nov 2009 -
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X-Ray Spex - Live @ The Roundhouse 2008
Punk firebrands don’t die, they congeal. It’s an increasingly familiar tale: if the option of a reunion isn’t snuffed out by death’s ... Read more »| 09 Nov 2009 -
Albums
Roddy Hart - Sign Language
Roddy Hart’s first album featured Kris Kristofferson vocals - not bad for a Glaswegian new-start. Three years later, Sign Language eschews grizzled cel... Read more »| 04 Nov 2009 -
Singles
Ben TD - Leaves
Let's give Glasgow-based singer-songwriter Ben TD the benefit of the doubt and say that his confused lyrics in Leaves are actually purposefully garbled. "I s... Read more »| 04 Nov 2009 -
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Alice Russell - Pot of Gold
Alice Russell’s fourth album looked like it might not happen – the collapse of a distribution company a year ago left it, perhaps metaphorically,... Read more »| 30 Oct 2009 -
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Pablo - Turntable Technology
A genre defying double debut album from Pablo, the man behind the soundtrack to Scottish success story Grand Theft Auto. Read more »| 30 Oct 2009 -
Singles
The Dirty Dozen - November 2009
Lyricists take note: "ghost" and "toast" can never be sensibly rhymed, 'cos Ally Brown says so. Read more »| 30 Oct 2009