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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 -
Albums Of The YearThe 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 -
Albums Of The YearThe 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 -
OpinionHero Worship: Cliff Martinez on Captain Beefheart
Soundtrack composer (Drive, Only God Forgives, Sex, Lies and Videotape) and former drummer for Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Dickies, Cliff Martinez tells us of his lifelong love for Captain Beefheart, and what it was like to work with him Read more »| 27 Nov 2013 -
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Opinion: Beats, Rhymes and Shite
Resident rap aficionado Bram E. Gieben looks forward to the death of the hip-hop super-ego Read more »| 30 Oct 2013
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Hero Worship: Black Sabbath's Bill Ward on Gene Krupa
Black Sabbath’s Bill Ward, the original heavy metal drummer, salutes the profound influence of jazz percussionist Gene Krupa Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
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Hero Worship: Jim Jarmusch
Sparrow and the Workshop's Jill O'Sullivan muses on the iconic indie director's ear for a good film score Read more »| 05 Jun 2013 -
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Hero Worship: Trail of Dead's Jason Reece on Waterloo Records
As ...And You will Know Us By the Trail of Dead swing into Glasgow on Record Store Day, Jason Reece salutes his favourite shop Read more »| 10 Apr 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 -
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The 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