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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AlbumsAntony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light
Antony proves he was well worth the wait with album number three. Read more »| 13 Jan 2009 -
AlbumsOmar Rodriguez-López - Old Money
Frantic, eclectic guitar mania accompanied by his instrumental cohorts from Mars Volta Read more »| 12 Jan 2009 -
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The Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage
If lead single Throwing Bones doesn’t slap a big smile on your mug, you may want to check your pulse for recent activity. Read more »| 12 Jan 2009 -
SinglesThe Fake Lazy Supernovas - Golden Boy / That's the Day
Perhaps the clunkiest band name I've read in a while, but you can't always judge a cook by his lover. However, this single is lyrically poor light funk, with... Read more »| 12 Jan 2009 -
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Foreign Slippers - Oh Death EP
As comfortable and familiar as an old pair of baffies, yet blessed with just enough originality and freshness to distinguish her from many of her crooning co... Read more »| 12 Jan 2009 -
Albums
Bricolage - Bricolage
Bricolage are unashamedly in thrall to Scottish indie from the 1980s. There's no denying that the Glasgow-based foursome can pull off a convincing Orange Jui... Read more »| 09 Jan 2009
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Okker - Two Axes
Winter is a bad time to be promoting underground music. The sheer quantity of rubbish that crams the shelves of music stores turns even the most discerning c... Read more »| 09 Jan 2009 -
AlbumsAnimal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
God only knows where they go from here... Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
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Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird follows 2007's critical success Armchair Apocrypha with an intricate beauty of an LP that's by turns introspective and inst... Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
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Dälek - Gutter Tactics
Like an industrial hip-hop soundtrack to your worst (or favourite) Lynchian nightmare, New Jersey duo Dälek prophesise the apocalypse via the medium o... Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
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Fight Like Apes - ...And the Mystery of the Golden Medallion
Ireland’s Fight Like Apes splatter their debut album on an unsuspecting record-buying public this month like Day-Glo paint. Singer Maykay makes like Jemina P... Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
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PPP - Abundance
It's been just over ten years since The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, an album that didn't so much take the tropes of R n' B and subvert them, as rip up the r... Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
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Nickel Eye – The Time Of The Assassins
A satisfying work of homespun folk-rock Read more »| 07 Jan 2009 -
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Scott Weiland – “Happy” in Galoshes
Although known more for his excesses than his music for too long now, it seems Scott Weiland had a weighty pop rock album in him all along. With guest appear... Read more »| 07 Jan 2009 -
Singles
Kevin Rudolf feat. Lil Wayne - Let it Rock
Pop music is a peculiar beast: sometimes overly formulaic, written by hacks for any number of identikit 'stars', mixed in such a way as to wring every last d... Read more »| 06 Jan 2009