Albums of the year
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Albums Of The YearThe Albums of 2013 (#3): Factory Floor – Factory Floor (DFA)
Combining industrial noise, stripped techno and disco and driving analogue synth-sounds in their incendiary live performances, this year Factory Floor nailed their first studio album. The band's Nik Void talks tactics Read more »| 06 Dec 2013 -
Albums Of The YearThe Albums of 2013 (#4): The National – Trouble Will Find Me (4AD)
When his wife Joy Davidson died after three years of marriage, C.S. Lewis recorded his grief in a series of journals, published pseudonymously in the early 1... Read more »| 05 Dec 2013 -
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The Albums of 2013 (#5): CHVRCHES – The Bones of What You Believe (Virgin / Goodbye)
“A lot of electronic bands these days, not wanting to name names, they shy away from the melody, shy away from the song and it becomes all about how th... Read more »| 05 Dec 2013 -
Albums Of The YearThe Albums of 2013 (#6): Hookworms – Pearl Mystic (Gringo)
The aftermath of Pearl Mystic has been one of change and decisions for Hookworms' vocalist MJ Read more »| 05 Dec 2013 -
Albums Of The YearThe Albums of 2013 (#7): Frightened Rabbit – Pedestrian Verse (Atlantic)
After the promising dress rehearsal of Frightened Rabbit’s debut album, Sing the Greys, the Selkirk troupe quickly followed up with main event The Midn... Read more »| 04 Dec 2013 -
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The Albums of 2013 (#8): Boards of Canada – Tomorrow's Harvest (Warp)
For an elusive duo who once proclaimed ‘music is math,’ the cryptic, numerical-led announcement of Boards of Canada’s fourth album was sure... Read more »| 04 Dec 2013
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The Albums of 2013 (#9): Future of the Left – How to Stop Your Brain in an Accident (Prescriptions)
The end of a short tour is a mixed blessing; or, as Andrew Falkous puts it, “very sweet but kind of fruity”. It’s saying goodbye to weeks o... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
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The Albums of 2013 (#10): Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels (Fool's Gold / Big Dada)
Swimming against the ego-obsessed current of mainstream hip-hop with scientific lyrical beatdowns and heavy electronic boom-bap beats, Killer Mike and El-P delivered this year's finest rap album as Run The Jewels Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
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The Albums of 2012 (#1): Death Grips – The Money Store (Epic)
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 Money Store Read more »| 06 Dec 2012 -
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The Albums of 2012 (#2): Django Django – Django Django (Because Music)
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 Read more »| 06 Dec 2012 -
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The Albums of 2012 (#3): Grimes – Visions (4AD)
The Skinny catches up with our favourite sibylline songstress to hear about her year and get the inside track on the future of music Read more »| 06 Dec 2012 -
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The Albums of 2012 (#4): Errors – Have Some Faith In Magic (Rock Action)
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 Read more »| 05 Dec 2012 -
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The Albums of 2012 (#5): Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory (Wichita)
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 pastime Read more »| 05 Dec 2012 -
Albums Of The YearThe Albums of 2012 (#6): El-P – Cancer4Cure (Fat Possum)
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 Read more »| 05 Dec 2012 -
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The Albums of 2012 (#7): Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan (Domino)
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 was quite the opposite Read more »| 05 Dec 2012