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theskinny.co.uk - 12 hours ago
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When placing Idlewild’s sophomore album 100 Broken Windows
into the context of Scottish albums of the decade,...
it becomes all too clear how much the musical landscape has changed since its release in May 2000. The Edinburgh quartet, now a quintet, have travelled from major label, to really ...
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Scottish Albums of the Decade #1: Idlewild - 100 Broken ...
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The world is set up wrong. We know this now. While Glasvegas gallivant around the globe, filling stadiums with their sing-along dogshite nonsense, another group, The Twilight Sad, should be in their place. But in twenty years' time that will be irrelevant because the latter's debut LP, Fourteen ...
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The Twilight Sad
It's easy to cast the mind back to the dawning of the millennium and perhaps fondly recall a pre-9/11 sense of optimism and renewal – I mean, the bug didn't get us after all (up yours Nostradamus!). But was the outlook ever really so rosy? Certainly, the arrival of XTRMNTR slap bang in the ...
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Primal Scream
If 1998's Music has the Right to Children was the record that opened up modern electronic music to whole new vistas of possibility – both in terms of its staggering emotional charge and its radically holistic approach to instrumentation and melody – then 2002's Geogaddi is the album ...
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Boards of Canada
On the face of it, their product is hardly revolutionary. Yet, for the past year and a half, The Midnight Organ Fight by Frightened Rabbit has been the album that simply keeps on giving. Potty-mouthed songwriter Scott Hutchison’s dog-on-heat tales of drunken love and lust could, in less ...
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Frightened Rabbit
The Organ
The Forth
One particular record from this decade that made an impact on me was The Campfire Headphase by Boards of Canada. When it was released in 2005 I was still at university and The Twilight Sad wanted to get out of just playing one gig a year with songs that involved half an hour of noise. We’d ...
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Boards of Canada
The Twilight Sad
Not even King Creosote's mother owns everything in his discography, as it's filled with dozens of rare Fence Collective releases and CD-Rs. But if this isn't the best album he's ever done, may we speak on behalf of the whole world in asking kindly for a copy of the usurper? Recorded in a real ...
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theskinny.co.uk - 14 hours ago
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When I was thinking of a few good
reasons why this was my pick for the Scottish...
album of the decade, I realised it had nothing to to do with it being 'The Best' in any critical sense and everything to do with it being the record that arrived at the right time. I love picking albums to pieces, ...
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Scottish Albums of the Decade #8: The Delgados - The ...
Alright, I admit it, when The Campfire Headphase dropped in 2005 I was one of the fans who was up in arms about BoC's new sound. Where were the beats? What was up with those guitars? When I heard the strings come in on Dayvan Cowboy I literally shuddered as the repressed memories of countless ...
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Boards of Canada
“Enjoy it while you can, because it won’t last long…” So sings Malcolm Middleton over the characteristically resolute backdrop of The Week Never Starts Around Here, one of the standouts on Arab Strap’s second-last album, released in 2003.
We had just started to get ...
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Arab Strap
With the tag “post-rock” serving as a convenient journalistic denouement for fifteen years of innovative, rousing, often sinister, occasionally whimsical musical exploration, it's easy to forget the many different approaches and styles that label encompasses. Whilst Canadian legends ...
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Mogwai
Mr. Bungle
Another forward-thinking head-scratcher from the vaults of Chemikal Underground, Sleep and Release elicited genre-bending sloganeering like ‘dream metal’ and ‘post-pop’ as critics often fumbled to characterise what it was that Aereogramme were doing so well. Of course, ...
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Aereogramme
Morag Deyes MBE, artistic director of Dance Base, is one of the most restless agitators in the Scottish arts. Not content with an award winning programme of choreographers during the Fringe, she has lovingly curated Off Kilter, a Hogmanay celebration of short performances that provides a ...
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theskinny.co.uk - 14 hours ago
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There seem to me to be two types
of Hogmanay revellers: those who are constantly trying to...
better the previous year’s shenanigans by planning the most debauched night possible, and those deliberately seeking a low-key affair in order to escape the pressure to have ‘the best night of ...
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Edinburgh Hogmanay 2010: Setting the World on Fire
There seem to me to be two types of Hogmanay revellers: those who are constantly trying to better the previous year’s shenanigans by planning the most debauched night possible, and those deliberately seeking a low-key affair in order to escape the pressure to have ‘the best night of ...
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theskinny.co.uk - 15 hours ago
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Reviewing Personnel: Matt Caughthran (Vocals) Joby Ford (Guitars/Vocals)
Black Gold - Idols (Red Bull, 14 Dec) Matt:...
I was hoping something good was gonna happen, but nothing did. Joby: Yeah, it definitely had the potential to go some place. Then it hit that double-time section. As a band, one ...
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El Susio Dozenza - December 2009
theskinny.co.uk - 17 hours ago
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Out with the old and in with the
new, as the saying goes. So let's start the...
rundown of high quality festivities taking place on the 31st of December with a look at one of the newest entries on the Hogmanay party circuit. Tictactoe's twelve hour party runs from 2pm to 2am before moving on to an ...
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Hogmanay Clubbing: There's a Lot Going on Underground
theskinny.co.uk - 17 hours ago
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Jordan Scott’s directorial debut is a suggestive beast.
The title of the film itself, adapted from a...
Sheila Kohler novel of the same name, is a coy allusion to the artifice of innocence - a central tenet to a story augmented by a formidable cast and Scott’s playful signposting. ...
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Cracks
theskinny.co.uk - 17 hours ago
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Out with the old and in with the
new, as the saying goes. So let's start the...
rundown of high quality festivities taking place on the 31st of December with a look at one of the newest entries on the Hogmanay party circuit. Tictactoe's twelve hour party runs from 2pm to 2am before moving on to an ...
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Hogmanay Clubbing: What Street Party?
