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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AlbumsConor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band - Outer South
If you’ve come here looking for a helpful soundtrack to some impending suicide attempt in a rustic shack on the edge of a steely lake in the ass-crack ... Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
AlbumsMC Lars - This Gigantic Robot Kills
MC Lars has returned with his trademark nerdcore, or, in his own words, “post-punk laptop rap”. He's certainly got his full geek on for This Giga... Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
AlbumsGomez - A New Tide
I never really cared for Gomez back in the day. Their debut album Bring It On was a decent slice of country-tinged pop, but the poisoned chalice of a Mercury... Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
AlbumsBen's Brother - Battling Giants
You may not remember Ben’s Brother from last time around (the singles from 2007’s Beta Male Fairytale made only minor dents in radio playlists), ... Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
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Redjetson - Other Arms
In Other Arms, Redjetson have seemingly created a work so incredible that, rather than fail to live up to expectations created by it, disbanded before it was... Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
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Grant Campbell - Expecting Great Things
Grant Campbell's intimate third album pushes his haunting vocal to the fore Read more »| 24 Apr 2009
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New York Dolls - 'Cause I Sez So
It’s worth noting how unlikely it was that this album would ever exist in the first place. After a mammoth 27-year hiatus, the New York Dolls returned ... Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
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Blue Roses - Blue Roses
Within its first few opening seconds, Blue Roses’ debut is leaping about the place like Kate Bush in the video for Wuthering Heights. The Bush comparis... Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
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William Orbit - My Oracle Lives Uptown
William Orbit should need no introduction, but here goes: an old-school ambient producer from the infancy of the genre (probably before you were born), he th... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
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Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
Billed as a reprisal of their darkest period’s austerity, right down to the repulsive artwork, the Manics Street Preachers’ ninth album pokes ope... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
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Wooden Shjips - Dos
Man, oh man. This album should be good. It looks cool. The guys playing the music look cool. The name is suitably non-committal to suggest they don't crave a... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
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The Show is the Rainbow - Wet Fist
Initially coming across as some strain of novelty act, The Show is the Rainbow’s sophomore album contains many moments of musical brilliance. This one-... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
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Sileni - Riders On The Conquering Worm
Arriving in a none-more-black casing and featuring only an enigmatic postcard of an alien along with the barest details of personnel, Sileni’s debut fu... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
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Isis - Wavering Radiant
Post-metal seems to spend a lot of time trying to undo Fred Durst as a musical proposition and prove once again that metal can be an intellectual entity, rat... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
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Gallows - Grey Britain
After a sinister opening gambit, Gallows get down to growling with a little more political venom than we've been accustomed to from the Herts quintet. Harnes... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009