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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EpSons of Noel and Adrian - Rivers EP
So perfectly crafted are the three songs on this limited EP that it is hard to believe it was recorded by twelve people. While other modern ‘folk&rsquo... Read more »| 17 Jul 2009 -
Albums
DJ Food - One Man's Weird Is Another Man's World
DJ Food returns with his first new music in eight years Read more »| 16 Jul 2009 -
EpCancel the Astronauts - I am the President of your Fanclub EP
Two-chord melodic guitar riffing opens the title song on Cancel the Astronauts’ debut, quickly joined by all-white-notes on the keyboard playing. Prope... Read more »| 14 Jul 2009 -
SinglesReverend & The Makers - Silence is Talking
After a summer supporting Oasis, John McClure and his Makers return with Silence Is Talking, which, if you can forgive the lack of originality and a shameles... Read more »| 13 Jul 2009 -
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The Domino State- Firefly
It’s a well known but perhaps unspoken rule that to plagiarise U2 will not make you popular with the critical press but may sell you a few records. Th... Read more »| 13 Jul 2009 -
Albums
The Rumble Strips - Welcome to The Walk Alone
Try as hard as we reviewers do, we're all plagued with a pretentious edge. We constantly strive to squeeze in the word zeitgeist, eager to slam any album th... Read more »| 13 Jul 2009
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The Dead Weather - Horehound
It’s natural that Jack White has dominated discussions of the Dead Weather. With two bands already under his command, the unveiling of a new blues-rock... Read more »| 09 Jul 2009 -
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The Twang - Jewellery Quarter
Despite the decimating response they received from critics, The Twang had a few half-decent hug-yer-mates moments in between the attempts at sounding tough o... Read more »| 08 Jul 2009 -
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Jay Haze - Fabric 47
Jay Haze provides a mix with just as much heart as groove. Read more »| 08 Jul 2009 -
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Magnolia Electric Co. - Josephine
Records borne of personal tragedy are an odd beast: tinged with pain, they’ll often contain heartbreakingly honest song-writing, but can become stiflin... Read more »| 08 Jul 2009 -
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Fury UK - VR
Speaking from experience, the last thing music writers do at night is pray to their appropriate deity that it might deliver unto them the kind of record they... Read more »| 07 Jul 2009 -
AlbumsFact - Fact
When music escapes the Far East, it’s generally remarkable in some way: Boris invigorated the sludge of stoner metal with Pink and bands like Pizzicato... Read more »| 07 Jul 2009 -
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Reverend & The Makers - A French Kiss In The Chaos
Jon McClure is on the ropes, so to speak. The self-proclaimed heavyweight champ of his own ego has taken a fair battering over the last year, ostensibly as s... Read more »| 07 Jul 2009 -
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The Stupids - The Kids Don't Like It
Surely the greatest musical proposition ever to hail from Suffolk – not that The Darkness and Tim Westwood present much of a challenge – John Pee... Read more »| 06 Jul 2009 -
Singles
Django James & The Midnight Squires - Hurricane
Django James fancies himself as a fast-living ingénue, and his band’s debut single, Hurricane (sample lyric: “my eyes are rolling backward... Read more »| 06 Jul 2009