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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ReviewsStumbleine ft. Violet Skies – Dissolver
Stumbleine's production is undeniably more deep and beautiful than ever on this full-length collaboration with Violet Skies, not least in the way he treats t... Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
NewsDownload Smell the Da.I.S.Y., a new J-Dilla produced mixtape from De La Soul
De La Soul have released their new Dilla-produced mixtape, Smell the Da.I.S.Y., for free online Read more »| 28 Mar 2014 -
VideosTen Rapid: the best new music videos with Gruff Rhys, Thee Oh Sees, and Daniel Avery
A week in music videos, with Thee Oh Sees lost in an animated fantasy world, Gruff Rhys on a magical mystery tour, plus new music from indie-folk lot Fatherson, rock and roll rebels The Amazing Snakeheads, Glasgow rapper Gasp and acid-head Daniel Avery Read more »| 28 Mar 2014 -
VideosThe Skinny at SxSW 2014: Meursault, We Were Promised Jetpacks and more play Showcasing Scotland
Footage from Showcasing Scotland at SxSW 2014 in Austin, Texas, featuring performances by Meursault, Young Fathers, Withered Hand, Honeyblood, Casual Sex and We Were Promised Jetpacks, plus commentary from the event by Vic Galloway Read more »| 28 Mar 2014 -
Reviews
Brolin – FLAGS Mixtape
Producer and vocalist Brolin warms up for his dsbut album, expected later this year, with a mixtape that sees him collaborating with, remixing, bring remixed by and re-purposing tracks by Dam Mantle, Raffertie, Sinkane and others. Read more »| 28 Mar 2014 -
Live Music
Wild Beasts @ Albert Hall, Manchester, 26 March
Anyone would think it were a homecoming, as almost 2000 people join the swell of Lion’s Share: “Boy, what you running from?”, they implore,... Read more »| 28 Mar 2014
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Playlists
Cloud Sounds #11: with The Phantom Band, Fucked Up, The Afghan Whigs, and more
The latest instalment of our Music team's regular playlist also features new music from Randolph's Leap, Fucked Up, Floating Points, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, and former Teenage Fanclub member Lenzie Ross Read more »| 27 Mar 2014 -
Reviews
Teebs – E s t a r a
Teebs' new album is at once definitively a product of the LA beat scene, and evidence of his capacity to grow beyond that scene's far-reaching, experimental ... Read more »| 27 Mar 2014 -
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The Cosmic Dead – Easterfaust
Glasgow's The Cosmic Dead are the real deal, and have been trading in the kind of tweaked-out, acid-drenched, sprawling riffage so currently in vogue for fou... Read more »| 27 Mar 2014 -
Reviews
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks – Enter The Slasher House
While his Animal Collective wing-man Panda Bear’s songs are otherworldly and angelic, Avey Tare (né Dave Portner) frequently occupies the other ... Read more »| 27 Mar 2014 -
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The Body – I Shall Die Here
The Haxan Cloak spent months processing The Body's urgent, howled vocals and feral blasts of shredded guitar noise, transfiguring them into the dense and opp... Read more »| 27 Mar 2014 -
Reviews
Cloud Nothings – Here and Nowhere Else
“I’m moving forward while I keep the past around me,” rasps 23-year-old Dylan Baldi on Pattern Walks, the seven-minute earth-scorcher from ... Read more »| 27 Mar 2014 -
Reviews
King of the Mountains – Zoetrope
While the term is often deployed as a smokescreen when bickering bands part ways, genuine "musical differences" can be invigorating, yoking oppositional tast... Read more »| 27 Mar 2014 -
Reviews
Fatherson – I Am An Island
Orbiting the Scottish music scene for a few years, collecting a string of support slots (including Frightened Rabbit and Idlewild) charming Kilmarnock indie ... Read more »| 27 Mar 2014 -
ReviewsSchool of Language – Old Fears
Indie pop renaissance man David Brewis takes time out from the day job to return to School of Language. Actually, make that day jobs – his role as... Read more »| 27 Mar 2014