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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Singles
Jack Butler - Velvet Prose
Is another retro wiry-guitar band to compliment the NME-fuelled nu-alternative bandwagon really necessary? Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Singles
James Yorkston - Steady As She Goes
Beautiful, no matter where you call home Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
SinglesMuse - Starlight
so unfashionable it sounds like the theme for some short-lived 80s TV soap Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
SinglesRazorlight - America
...you wish Borrell would stop harping on about the place and just emigrate Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Singles
Spearmint - Psycho Magnet
Peers at you from your stereo like a lovelorn Bernard Sumner Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Ep
Stephen Malkmus - Kindling for the Master remix EP
Stephen Malkmus gets the remix treatment on this adhoc little EP Read more »| 13 Oct 2006
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Singles
The Automatic - Recover
A shallow, tuneless void of a song Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
AlbumsVolt - Rorhat
It's almost as if grunge never hit the big time and was still a snarling beast dripping with sludge riffs and delerious headfuck. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Albums
Peppermint Creeps - AnimatroniX
Is everyone in LA on crack? Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Albums
Made Out Of Babies - Coward
Hell yes, it's better than drugs. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
AlbumsLarrikin Love - The Freedom Spark
Ever feel like you've just been cheated? Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
AlbumsCute Is What We Aim For - The Same Old Blood Rush With A New Touch
Makes Blink 182 seem like nihilists Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Albums
Sean Lennon - Friendly Fire
An assured collection of dreamy, melody-driven songs reveals Lennon as the major talent he always threatened to be Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Albums
OutKast - Idlewild
Idlewild' can only be considered a disappointment in the context of OutKast's previous stellar achievements. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Albums
Mt. - Lethologica
In a genre that is so fundamentally lazy and mediocre, they are very competent, I suppose Read more »| 13 Oct 2006