EP review for The Skinny
The current Scottish music scene is healthily diverse, and now Sparrow and the Workshop bring another genre to the mix: country and western. Having only formed last year, the Scottish-Welsh-American trio’s debut EP opens with a brooding vocal harmony between singer Jill O’Sullivan (formerly known as Dead Sparrow) and drummer Gregor [...]
Album review for The Skinny
Anyone acquainted with Bat For Lashes’ highly regarded debut Fur and Gold will know that the Brighton singer-songwriter (real name Natasha Khan) is something of a New Age siren. On this highly anticipated follow-up, she ups the mystic ante, harnessing the tribal energy of kindred spirits Yeasayer (most noticeably on thrilling [...]
Album review for The Skinny
In the endlessly cyclical history of popular music, psychedelic rock has mostly been left to gather dust in record shops. There have been isolated attempts to revive the genre from bands like Comets on Fire and the Brian Jonestown Massacre, but nothing like a concerted revival. Crystal Antlers could well be [...]
EP review for The Line of Best Fit
In these hyper-connected times we’re living in, it’s rare for a band to emerge from seemingly nowhere, with no biographical baggage, no superficial hype and no expectation – and yet utterly astound you with their music. This much I know about Chimes & Bells: they’re a Danish quartet, [...]
Live album review for The Skinny
Liver! Lung! FR! is an intermediary fan-pleaser in which Frightened Rabbit serve up a no-nonsense semi-acoustic live set, rigidly following the track-listing of The Skinny’s album of 2008, The Midnight Organ Fight.
So you might rightly question the worth of such an endeavour; most live albums usually wheel out an unexpected [...]
EP review for The Skinny
Apparently designed to give the lie to those who say the Scottish music scene is too ponderous or introspective, Edinburgh collective FOUND are specialists in skewed, mashed-up folk-tronica. Fans of Attic Lights and Make Model already know about their digital talents thanks to some gloriously glitchy remixes, and The Fidelities EP [...]
Album review for The Skinny
Red Light Company make no bones about the fact that they’re here “to make a huge record”. And with their debut they have fulfilled this aim: Fine Fascination is built on pounding drums, meaty riffs and the kind of hooks that tunnel into your ears and refuse to come out. Their [...]
Album review for The Skinny
The Brooklyn-based duo of Yuki Chikudate and James Hanna caught our attention in 2006 with Citrus, their sumptuous second album. While the obvious reference point for that recordwas My Bloody Valentine, the sweet aftertaste left by their follow-up Hush is more akin to The Cocteau Twins’ glistening soundscapes. But Asobi Seksu [...]
Album review for The Skinny
Things haven’t gone so well for experimental Texan rockers …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead. Last album So Divided was leaked a month before its release, they parted company with label Interscope, and if Wikipedia is to be believed, guitarist Kevin Allen was arrested on New Year’s [...]
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