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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AlbumsThe Fast Camels — The Magic Optician
Lifts the eyes toward the lights Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
AlbumsIdlewild - Make Another World
A 35-minute romp built from jagged chords and Woomble's little boy lost vocals. Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
dismiss these girls and boys as just another gang of angst-ridden crybabys and you know not what you do Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
AlbumsNeurosonic - Drama Queen
Like Linkin Park hooking up with The Backstreet Boys but even more unpalatable Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
AlbumsMudbone - Fresh Mud
veering from dirty blues to the sort of rock synth that the 80s wants back Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
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Little Man Tate - About What You Know (Yellow Van) (WEB REVIEW)
would be easy to label them as also rans before they've even began, but on this evidence the future is looking pretty good Read more »| 11 Jan 2007
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Ghost - In Stormy Nights
What The Mars Volta would sound like if they were a bunch of folkies Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
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Cancer Bats - Birthing the Giant
a pick-squealing romp of metal riffery interspersed with some slamming punk chord progressions Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
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The View - Hats Off To The Buskers
the sound of four young men in the prime of their lives Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
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Isle of Me - Beginning to Understand
Creepily ominous! Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
AlbumsThe Last Town Chorus - Wire Waltz
Her reinvention of David Bowie's 'Modern Love' as an ethereal work of heartbreak completely invigorates the original Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
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Sarah Nixey - Sing, Memory
Nancy Sinatra for the 21st century Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
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Little Man Tate - About What You Know
If this is a debut album then how come it sounds so familiar? Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
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Little Green Machine - Little Green Machine
Sounds exactly like Therapy? would sound now if they hadn't grown old and soft. Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
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Kling Klang - The Esthetik Of Destruction
The most abrasive electronic-based music since Berzerker. Read more »| 11 Jan 2007