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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ReviewsThe Lovely Eggs – This Is Our Nowhere
Lancaster’s finest return with a fourth album of schizoid odd-pop – the titular ‘nowhere’ presumably referring to the small town they... Read more »| 17 Apr 2015 -
ReviewsKill the Waves – The One That Could Have Been
Kill the Waves appear as though in the midst of an identity crisis on their debut album. The Glasgow six-piece ooze potential but could do with making t... Read more »| 17 Apr 2015 -
Reviews
Howling – Sacred Ground
Combining sultry vocals and acoustic instrumentation with ethereal synth figures and cold deep house beats, the debut full-length from Howling (the joint pro... Read more »| 16 Apr 2015 -
Videos
Group of the Altos – Pony (Live at SxSW 2015)
Group of the Altos perform their as-yet-unreleased track 'Pony' at The Hideout in Austin, Texas, during this year's South by Southwest music festival. The b... Read more »| 16 Apr 2015 -
News
The Bug vs Dylan Carlson's Earth to make live debut at Supersonic Festival
Birmingham's Supersonic Festival has today announced plans to host the debut live performance between two uncompromising and quite naturally aligned masters ... Read more »| 15 Apr 2015 -
Reviews
White Arrows – In Bardo
White Arrows’ sophomore album is the result of slowing down, having a think, and coming back fighting. After 2012 debut Dry Land Is Not a Myth, the ban... Read more »| 15 Apr 2015
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Reviews
Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld – Never Were the Way She Was
Saxophonist Colin Stetson and violinist Sarah Neufeld, known as much for their prolific collaborations (see: Tom Waits, Bon Iver, Arcade Fire) as their solo ... Read more »| 15 Apr 2015 -
Reviews
Raekwon – Fly International Luxurious Art
After a protracted will-he, won’t-he saga dragged on for much of last year, Raekwon eventually did contribute verses to Wu-Tang Clan’s A Better T... Read more »| 15 Apr 2015 -
Interviews
The Last Word: Raekwon on F.I.L.A., Cuban Linx at 20 and Wu-Tang's legacy
The Wu-Tang legend shares his thoughts on family, religion, his new record, the twentieth anniversary of Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, and the controversial duo of new Clan records Read more »| 14 Apr 2015 -
ReviewsHusky Rescue – The Long Lost Friend: Special Edition
The fourth album from this Finnish folktronica project gets its first worldwide issue, following a domestic release back in 2013. This special edition comes ... Read more »| 14 Apr 2015 -
Live Music
Out of Body: Gazelle Twin + Carla Mackinnon @ FACT, Liverpool, 9 April
Puberty, a rite of passage that hopefully everyone traverses relatively unscathed, is an awkward process, but a necessary one. It’s trying, and usually... Read more »| 14 Apr 2015 -
Live Music
Hartheim @ Soup Kitchen, Manchester, 8 April
Hartheim are awash with contradiction. Defined as much by what they are not as by what they are, every note, every grievous lyric ("Your god has so much to a... Read more »| 14 Apr 2015 -
ReviewsWe Are The City – Violent
There’s a new Mew album due this spring, but if you can’t wait that long the debut album from Canadian three-piece We Are The City might just tid... Read more »| 14 Apr 2015 -
News
The Kazimier is set to close: Liverpool reacts
As one of Liverpool's most iconic venues of recent times announces its closure later this year, we ask participants in the local scene what this will mean for the city Read more »| 13 Apr 2015 -
News
Track premiere: James Canty - ‘Love’
Listen to a premiere of Love, the title track from the forthcoming EP by Liverpool-based songwriter James Canty. The track, packed with harpsichords, synthe... Read more »| 13 Apr 2015