Music
The Skinny magazine music guide. We bring you the latest music highlights, gig reviews and previews, music videos, album reviews and features. Find exclusive interviews with local bands and international stars, bespoke playlists and video premieres.
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ReviewsIndian Handcrafts – Creeps
The Canadian pairing of Brandyn James Aikens and Daniel Brandon Allen might have been cursed with the least rock 'n' roll names in history and they cert... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
ReviewsEvening Hymns – Quiet Energies
Quiet Energies is unassuming; a slow-burning, spacious album documenting grief with dignified melancholia. Jonas Bonetta has regrouped his band for a follow-... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
Festivals
The Notwist, Heems, Prefuse 73 join Le Guess Who? 2015
The full line-up for this year’s Le Guess Who? festival in the Dutch city of Utrecht has been confirmed. Read more »| 01 Oct 2015 -
ClubsSubstance mark 9th birthday with Mono Junk party
A rare live show from veteran Finnish producer Kim Rapatti – aka Mono Junk – heads the birthday celebrations for Edinburgh techno night Substance this Friday. We look ahead, and Substance's Adam Richardson talks us through five choice Rapatti cuts Read more »| 01 Oct 2015 -
Live MusicIn Pictures: Blanck Mass, RM Hubbert, BDY_PRTS and Outblinker at The Pleasance Sessions
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Reviews
John Grant – Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
John Grant’s third impressive effort in a row sees the Iceland-based musician reach a new level of maturity, even as his stylistic choices shoot for so... Read more »| 01 Oct 2015
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Reviews
Kowloon Walled City – Grievances
Third LP time for Kowloon Walled City, as the San Francisco post-hardcore types pull themselves out of the sludge to reveal something more intricate, yet no ... Read more »| 01 Oct 2015 -
ReviewsAutre Ne Veut – Age of Transparency
After his scrappy, hazy debut, pop experimentalist Autre Ne Veut – aka Arthur Ashin – struck critical gold with 2013’s Anxiety. Its singula... Read more »| 01 Oct 2015 -
Reviews
Cristobal and the Sea – Sugar Now
Intricate, multicultural, multilingual goth-tinged folk band Cristobal and the Sea have plenty of plates spinning, but handle them all with due care and atte... Read more »| 01 Oct 2015 -
Reviews
Born Ruffians – Ruff
It’s probably not advisable to claim The Strokes, Talking Heads and Pixies as influences all in one breath – as does the press release accom... Read more »| 30 Sep 2015 -
Live Music
Liverpool Psych Fest 2015: The Review
“Everywhere they played people would be asking them 'are you playing The Psych Fest this year?' It wasn't 'Liverpool' Psych Fest, it's almost like it g... Read more »| 30 Sep 2015 -
Reviews
Wavves – V
Wavves has never really been about substance – at least not in any traditional sense, with weed being this particular slacker's go-to drug. Though... Read more »| 30 Sep 2015 -
Reviews
Deafheaven – New Bermuda
Deafheaven's critical acclaim off the back of Sunbather was one of the unexpected success stories of 2013. They gained fans outside of metal circles par... Read more »| 30 Sep 2015 -
Reviews
A Mote of Dust – A Mote of Dust
It’s been a while since we last heard from Craig Beaton. While his Unwinding Hours colleague Iain Cook has reaped success with Chvrches, Beaton’s... Read more »| 30 Sep 2015 -
Reviews
Majical Cloudz – Are You Alone?
In song, Devon Welsh – one half of Majical Cloudz – has always come over as a fragile soul. His third album under the moniker doesn't quite ... Read more »| 30 Sep 2015