Amid a howling storm of hypertext hype, copyright controversy and multimedia performance art excess, Death Grips emerged into the mainstream to produce The Skinny's Album of the Year - The...
From relative obscurity to lauded Mercury Prize nominees – via the unconventional route of FIFA International Soccer – Dave Maclean of Django Django looks back on his band’s whirlwind year
The Skinny catches up with our favourite sibylline songstress to hear about her year and get the inside track on the future of music
They asked us for a little faith and in return delivered a sermon of divine sonic alchemy. Errors man Steev Livingstone pulls back the curtain on their finest creation yet
With their second album in a year Cleveland's Cloud Nothings pulled off a convincing change of identity. Dylan Baldi explains why returning to the drawing board has become his favourite...
Number seven in our top ten albums of the year, El-P talks to us about his stunning return to hip-hop, Cancer 4 Cure
With influences that ranged from Lil Wayne to Neil Young made plain from the outset, Dirty Projectors' sixth LP could easily have been a mess. Thankfully Dave Longstreth's latest vision...
A decade on from their last album, and with precious little fanfare, Godspeed You! Black Emperor proved they were still a force to be reckoned with. Praise be
Embraced by a growing legion of fans but shunned by an increasingly chart pop-oriented UK summer festival circuit, The Twilight Sad's frontman James Graham looks back on a bittersweet 12...
Matthew Dear's Beams spearheaded the 2012 trend that saw electronic producers embracing classic songwriting and pop music tropes - but what has he got planned for next year?
