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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AlbumsViolet 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 -
AlbumsThe 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 -
AlbumsX-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 -
AlbumsRoddy 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 -
Albums
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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Albums
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 -
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Themselves - CrownsDown
Anticon's crown jewel returns with The No Music of Boom-Bap Read more »| 29 Oct 2009 -
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Digital 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 -
Singles
Jamie 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 -
Singles
Frightened 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 -
Albums
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 -
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King 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 -
AlbumsAdrian 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