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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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 -
ReviewsCristobal 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 -
ReviewsBorn 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 -
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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 -
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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
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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 -
ReviewsMajical 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 -
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Mercury Rev – The Light In You
Seven years after the dreamy Snowflake Midnight, Mercury Rev have plundered the toolkit which has served them so well in almost 25 years of recording. At its... Read more »| 30 Sep 2015 -
Live Music
Gwenno / H Hawkline @ Soup Kitchen, 20 Sep
As September Sunday nights go, a co-headlining show from Heavenly Recordings’ Welsh label-mates Gwenno Saunders and H Hawkline, aka Huw Evans, sounds l... Read more »| 30 Sep 2015 -
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Editors – In Dream
It's overcooked and unashamedly melodramatic. Tom Smith still, at times, sounds like he's trying to declaim the opening line to Bowie's Cat People ("See thes... Read more »| 30 Sep 2015 -
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Kodiak Deathbeds – Kodiak Deathbeds
Summer might be over for another year, but thankfully Kodiak Deathbeds have arrived with their self-titled debut album which sounds ripe for soundtracking th... Read more »| 29 Sep 2015 -
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U.S. Girls – Half Free
Half Free sees Meghan Remy’s project U.S. Girls return with its third album, and her first for the eternally eminent 4AD label. Although interesting in... Read more »| 28 Sep 2015 -
Videos
The Spills – Pepper's Ghost: Music Video Premiere
Moody Wakefield quartet The Spills premiere their new video for Pepper's Ghost, taken from new album Collecting Dust. Read more »| 28 Sep 2015 -
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Artifact: The Dawn of Creation Records 1983-85
There's a quote in Alan McGee's 2013 autobiography that neatly sums up the Creation Records ethos. Discussing his own mid-80s band, Biff Bang Pow!, he laughs... Read more »| 25 Sep 2015