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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Live MusicJoanna Gruesome @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 23 September
Definitely not a band for Daily Mail readers, The Spook School’s forthcoming opus Try To Be Hopeful is a treatise on the politics and practicalities of... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
ReviewsAlex G – Beach Music
Alex Giannascoli pens songs like it’s some kind of bodily reflex; swift, spontaneous and essential. Beach Music is his seventh album in five years, and... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
ReviewsDeerhunter – Fading Frontier
Two tracks into Faded Frontier and Deerhunter's Bradford Cox makes his intentions clear. 'I'm out of range,' he sighs over a looping refrain which reite... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
ReviewsBlackalicious – Imani Vol. 1
After nearly 20 years in the game, it seems almost platitudinous to peg Gift of Gab as one of rap's most underrated sons. Yet it’s a label which seems ... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
Reviews
Evil Blizzard – Everybody Come to Church
Prowler, Stomper, Side, Kav and Filthydirty (sic) – no, not the cast of a Teletubbies reboot, but Evil Blizzard – Preston’s masked, primary... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
Live Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – October 2015
While October may be the month for kissing any few remnant sunny days goodbye, burying heads in textbooks, and carving pumpkins in preparation for Halloween,... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015
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Reviews
Protomartyr – The Agent Intellect
As a self-proclaimed mumbler, Joe Casey frequently obscures his lyrics with drawls and gritted teeth, while gothic shards – echoing Joy Division’... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
Reviews
The Spook School – Try To Be Hopeful
“We need you to know that we exist,” sing The Spook School. It’s a sentiment which could come from the mouth of any band ever, but in the h... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
Reviews
Indian 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 -
Reviews
Evening 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 -
Clubs
Substance 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 Music
In 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 -
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