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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AlbumsThe Hidden Cameras - Origin: Orphan
By all means applaud the ambition, just don’t expect it to have any substance Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
AlbumsOmar Rodriguez-López - Xenophanes
The solo work of Omar Rodriguez-López can vary wildly from sheer noise (see Despair) to records considered as Mars Volta releases in everything but n... Read more »| 20 Oct 2009 -
AlbumsEspers – III
If any genre of music epitomized the late 1960s it was psychedelic folk. The meeting of acoustic guitars and trippy boundary pushing seems rooted in those fe... Read more »| 20 Oct 2009 -
AlbumsDaniel Johnston - Is And Always Was
Iconic outsider artist upgrades from the bedroom to the studio to pleasingly excellent effect. Read more »| 20 Oct 2009 -
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Melvins - Chicken Switch
There is nothing you could dance to on this ‘remix’ album, not a single person with a ‘DJ’ prefix on the tracklisting. Instead, the M... Read more »| 20 Oct 2009 -
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Asobi Seksu - Acoustic At Olympic Studios
Acoustic reworkings aren't often worth the effort, either too similar to their original incarnations to warrant the additional labour or misguided and ill-f... Read more »| 20 Oct 2009
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EpLe Reno Amps - The Stand Off EP
Le Reno Amps nail their colours firmly to the mast of 'clever irony' with EP opener The Stand Off, a self-aware alt-country/indie mash-up that sounds like S... Read more »| 20 Oct 2009 -
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Miike Snow - Miike Snow
Stepping blinking into the spotlight come Scandinavian über-producers Bloodshy and Avant (with singing friend Andrew Wyatt) fresh from covering themselv... Read more »| 19 Oct 2009 -
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Keser - Robo_Ghost
If Martin Hannett had lived to see 2009, I’m sure he’d have loved to produce an album like Robo_Ghost. As it happens, Keser have done a pretty go... Read more »| 19 Oct 2009 -
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Fortune – Highway EP
If, like the real world, music has its localized commodities, then what you expect from a French export is effortless cool and – in the past decade at ... Read more »| 19 Oct 2009 -
Singles
Copy Haho - Wrong Direction
Stonehaven four-piece Copy Haho appear to have had an epiphany about why they remain unsigned. "We've been running in the wrong direction" they offer in the ... Read more »| 19 Oct 2009 -
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Hudson Mohawke - Butter
LuckyMe's Hudson Mohawke finally delivers his debut album, with exceptional results. Read more »| 13 Oct 2009 -
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Spiral Stairs - The Real Feel
Despite being voted Most Likely to Succeed alongside childhood friend Stephen Malkmus in the 1999 Pavement yearbook, Scott Kannberg has made only modest busi... Read more »| 13 Oct 2009 -
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Meretto - Street Talking
Meretto have a difficult battle ahead of them. With the lad-rock market currently saturated by the likes of The Enemy, Reverend and the Makers, Pigeon Detect... Read more »| 13 Oct 2009 -
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Portico Quartet – Isla
Jazz isn’t a genre that features heavily in these pages, so the question that arises when reviewing the new Portico Quartet album is this: ... Read more »| 13 Oct 2009