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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EpSound of Guns – Elementary of Youth EP
It takes a brave fool to start an indie rock’n’roll band these days. The long overdue demise of Oasis should have served as a warning that lad ro... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
EpBroken Records - Out On The Water EP
After all the column inches dedicated to them, it’s easy to forget that Broken Records are a relatively new band. A single album into their careers, an... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
Albums
Pelican - What We All Come to Need
What We All Come to Need could be construed as an assuming title. When ascribing the idea of necessity to one’s own project, one risks abject failure, ... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
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The Hidden Cameras - Origin: Orphan
By all means applaud the ambition, just don’t expect it to have any substance Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
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Omar 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 -
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Espers – 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
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Albums
Daniel 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 -
AlbumsAsobi 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 -
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 -
Albums
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 -
EpFortune – 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 -
Albums
Hudson Mohawke - Butter
LuckyMe's Hudson Mohawke finally delivers his debut album, with exceptional results. Read more »| 13 Oct 2009