The Skinner Brothers are the hardest-working band around. Fact. This year they released a breakthrough album, an eclectic EP and now, they have followed it up with a new single ‘Soul Boy’.
To date, The Skinner Brothers have been cultivating a sound that, caressed the edges of true originality but, hadn’t quite made the leap. On their new single ‘Soul Boy’ they’ve lept head first off a cliff and reinvented the game.
The drama of The Streets and the venom of Jamie T unite to forge a spiteful and vengeful piece of brilliance. This is the sound of 2am erupting into sweat-filled mayhem. Feelings of isolation and imprisonment bubble up with bile before exploding into a Fatboy Slim fuelled rage. Then, just when you can’t take the visceral assault anymore, Danni Burton Is introduced with superb homage to rave-era vocals to blow all your troubles away in a moment of sheer ecstasy.
Frontman Zac Skinner has hit the headlines of late. To dreary pop fans, bands who take shortcuts, and the ill-informed at the NME, he has done so for the wrong reasons. No matter which way you look at it, they’re wrong. Music is art, it should test the soul within an inch of its existence. If you can look us in the eye and say Louis Tomlison and NME do that, that they don’t take shortcuts for financial gain then so be it, leave use alone, we’re better than you!
‘Soul Boy II’ felt like a breakthrough album for the band. It took them to the main stages of festivals, major support slots for Kasabian. The Libertines, The Streets, and The Music and a sold-out tour. The single ‘Soul Boy’ however, is ground-breaking. It’s the kick up the arse the scene needed. Zac told us so and delivered it with interest.
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