Interviews
The Skinny discusses new releases and record choices with prominent artists and producers; covering everything from albums and songs to influences and matters of the heart.
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InterviewsWalt Disco on their new EP and flamboyant live shows
Public record label is this one: https://www.facebook.com/thisispublicrec/ Read more »| 12 Mar 2018 -
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Essaie Pas on New Path
We catch up with Marie Davidson and Pierre Guerineau, aka Essaie Pas, to chat about their latest album New Path, plans for 2018 and Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly Read more »| 08 Mar 2018 -
InterviewsSHHE on her return to music and Icelandic residency
“Solitude and isolation have always featured in my music. Intentionally or unintentionally, they’ve always featured in my life too" Su Shaw Read more »| 06 Mar 2018 -
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Martha Ffion on Sunday Best
We talk Seinfeld, Peep Show and growing up in Ireland with Glasgow-based singer-songwriter Martha Ffion ahead of the release of her debut album Sunday Best Read more »| 05 Mar 2018 -
InterviewsYoung Fathers on Cocoa Sugar and Edinburgh's live music scene
We pay Young Fathers a visit in their Leith studio space to talk about new album Cocoa Sugar, via pop dreams, improv poetry, huge horses and the future for Edinburgh's live scene Read more »| 05 Mar 2018 -
Art
Call and Response: Kobi Onyame vs the artist
An experimental music-art collaboration takes place this month in Many Studios in Glasgow, pairing artists with tracks from Kobi Onyame's acclaimed new album GOLD Read more »| 05 Mar 2018
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Gwenno on Le Kov and the Cornish language
Sung entirely in Cornish, Gwenno Saunders’ new album is a warm world of collective memories and a document of a language that’s well and truly alive Read more »| 02 Mar 2018 -
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Reality Bytes: Inside Superorganism's World
Superorganism tell us about the process of making their cross-continental debut album, nearly suffering an existential crisis and building the Superorganism world Read more »| 01 Mar 2018 -
InterviewsOught's Tim Darcy talks Room Inside the World
"I don’t try to write intentionally political music. It’s very much for us an organic side effect of what we care about as individuals" Tim Darcy Read more »| 10 Feb 2018 -
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Lewis Capaldi on his plans for the future
Currently supporting Milky Chance on their tour through the USA and Canada, Bathgate's Lewis Capaldi calls us from Atlanta for a chat about his long journey to success and plans for the future Read more »| 08 Feb 2018 -
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Introducing new Glasgow DIY label Possession Records
Alternate pull quote: "Like most small independent labels, we follow the regular formula of a dedication to Excel documents and sporadic 'business' meetings in pubs" Claudia Nova Read more »| 02 Feb 2018 -
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Fiona Soe Paing on Alien Lullabies and SPECTRA
With SPECTRA announcing its first ever musical programme, we speak to local musician Fiona Soe Paing about performing her audio-visual project Alien Lullabies at the Aberdeen festival Read more »| 02 Feb 2018 -
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Franz Ferdinand on their rebirth and new album
It's been 14 years since Franz Ferdinand burst into the mainstream with Take Me Out. Now the acclaimed Glasgow band are back with their fifth album and two new members. The Skinny sits down with them to ask how they've stayed at the top for so long Read more »| 02 Feb 2018 -
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Belle & Sebastian on How to Solve Our Human Problems
With the world around them more turbulent than they could have imagined in their 90s heyday, Belle & Sebastian returned to the hometown that shaped them to record their first EPs since 2004 - and found personal solutions to global issues in the process Read more »| 30 Jan 2018 -
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Field Music on latest album Open Here
We speak to Field Music's Peter Brewis about how transition, both personally and politically, has informed the group’s new album, and how they’re tackling it head on with a dose of positivity Read more »| 29 Jan 2018