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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AlbumsHEALTH - Get Color
Upon its release in January last year, the eponymous debut from L.A. noise botherers HEALTH polarised opinion. Those Crystal Castles fans who bought it in th... Read more »| 01 Sep 2009 -
AlbumsTimes New Viking - Born Again Revisited
Times New Viking may joke that their fourth effort boasts “25% higher fidelity”, but they’re fooling no one: the set is slathered in fuzz a... Read more »| 01 Sep 2009 -
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Polite Sleeper - Lake Effect
Before we proceed any further, there's a great big elephant in the room that needs to be dealt with: Jason Orlovich has a set of vocal chords that make him a... Read more »| 01 Sep 2009 -
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Planet Brain & Lebatol - Split LP
Planet Brain are really two bands putting up with each other, with the rhythm section doing their level-best to sound like a Washington hardcore outf... Read more »| 01 Sep 2009 -
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Gong - 2032
Okay, apologies upfront to anyone with a deep-rooted love of late '60s progressive rock. As a particularly genial bunch of folk and notoriously devout musica... Read more »| 01 Sep 2009 -
AlbumsPeasant - On the Ground
Some albums are one night stands that blaze away momentarily before burning out, leaving a hollow aftertaste and rueful self-reflection (why did you like the... Read more »| 01 Sep 2009
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EpFifty Caliber Smile - The Cycle EP
With Biffy Clyro promising another album, Fifty Caliber Smile prove that when it comes to exporting heavy rock with emotional substance, Scotland is anything... Read more »| 01 Sep 2009 -
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Last Stop China Town - Into The Volcano
In a Universe parallel to our own, not far removed, Obama lost the last US election. Liverpool won the Premiership. Michael Jackson survived a brush with dea... Read more »| 01 Sep 2009 -
AlbumsGary War - New Raytheonport
Psychedelic music may have hit its commercial peak around the time of Sgt Pepper's, but that hasn’t stopped a succession of space cadets from setting o... Read more »| 31 Aug 2009 -
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Mimes Of Wine - Apocalypse Sets In
It figures that these songs were written in winter. You can just imagine the claustrophobic scene; freezing cold fingers tinkling across a piano, so cold tha... Read more »| 31 Aug 2009 -
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Kid Harpoon – Once
Here follows a warning to aspiring singer-songwriters. If you want to hold on to any hard-fought credibility on your debut album, it’s probably not a g... Read more »| 29 Aug 2009 -
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frYars - Dark Young Hearts
From the moment he released his crudely-recorded but doubly sincere debut EP The Ides onto an unsuspecting internet in 2007, frYars’ Ben Garrett has ne... Read more »| 29 Aug 2009 -
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Schlachthofbronx - Schlachthofbronx
“Middle fingers up like we don’t give a damn”, begins guest rapper Doubla J on dubstep flavoured Di Finga. Whilst at first glance it appea... Read more »| 28 Aug 2009 -
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Mr Irvine - You've Been Injected With a Tracking Device
Over a jaunty, early Depeche Mode-style synth track, 50-year-old “electronic poet” Mr Irvine explores paranoia and bourgeois sensibilities. It&rs... Read more »| 28 Aug 2009 -
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D.o-Neimagi-N.e/I-Ambnecessno - A No Place
Were David Lynch commissioned to direct a dream sequence depicting a dying man, prostrate on the floor of his darkened apartment, while Requiem For A Dr... Read more »| 28 Aug 2009