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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SinglesAttic Lights - I Could Be So Good For You
Anyone who remembers the original release of this theme tune to hit 80s show Minder will be bitterly disappointed by this uninspired effort from Attic Lights... Read more »| 06 Feb 2009 -
SinglesGUILDEAN GANG - DENNIS BERGKAMP
It’s difficult to discern the meaning behind Guildean Gang’s debut single. Is the title a band-only in-joke? Or maybe an attempt to show that, wh... Read more »| 05 Feb 2009 -
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Shirley Lee - Shirley Lee
For better or worse, some musicians exist as timewarps, sucking you into a vortex of nostalgia and déjà-vu. Shirley Lee, as the ex-frontman for... Read more »| 05 Feb 2009 -
AlbumsAidan Moffat and the Best-Ofs - How To Get To Heaven From Scotland
Moffat is certainly the star here, but The Best-Ofs provide inventive backing Read more »| 04 Feb 2009 -
AlbumsThe Airborne Toxic Event - The Airborne Toxic Event
L.A. quintet The Airborne Toxic Event have already been touted as potentially one of this coming year's biggest successes on the back of single Sometime Arou... Read more »| 04 Feb 2009 -
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Beirut - March Of The Zapotec/Realpeople: Holland
He may have got half way there, but Monsieur Condon's foray into electronica appears ill-advised Read more »| 04 Feb 2009
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The Tyrant Lizard Kings - Six Shooter
A refreshing sound that puts two fingers up to anything that moves Read more »| 04 Feb 2009 -
Singles
St Jude's Infirmary - Little Sparta
I’m not sure what to make of St. Jude’s Infirmary. One minute they’re rattling around like Johnny Cash on a bad acid trip, shouting “... Read more »| 03 Feb 2009 -
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Guns n' Roses - Better
Better... is better than nothing, anyway, which can be said for much of Chinese Democracy: most of the world’s happy enough the damn thing finally came... Read more »| 03 Feb 2009 -
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The Travelling Band – Desolate Icicle
It’s not challenging but convivial, and that’s entirely the point Read more »| 03 Feb 2009 -
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The Qemists - Join the Q
Generic late-90s drum’n’bass with delusions of stadium rock. Read more »| 03 Feb 2009 -
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Titus Andronicus – The Airing of Grievances
They come from Springsteen country and burn with a similar passion for life in all its raw hope and blunt frustration Read more »| 03 Feb 2009 -
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St Deluxe – St Deluxe
We’re in the '90s grunge-rock ballpark, and St Deluxe seem happy enough to stay there Read more »| 02 Feb 2009 -
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Various Productions and Gerry Mitchell - The Invisible Lodger
Gerry Mitchell teams up with folk dubstep crew Various Production on a bleak, harrowing affair Read more »| 02 Feb 2009 -
Singles
U2 - Get On Your Boots
Hiroshi Sugimoto’s artwork for U2’s forthcoming album, No Line On The Horizon, may be more apt than he realises. Get On Your Boots is not so much... Read more »| 02 Feb 2009