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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ReviewsVolcano Choir – Repave
Emerging in For Emma…’s slipstream, Volcano Choir’s 2009 debut couldn’t help but be framed in relation to Justin Vernon’s othe... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
ReviewsGoldfrapp – Tales of Us
Whether it stomps on your heart or mops your fevered brow will depend on where it finds you at the time, but Tales of Us is capable of both, so beware. If 20... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
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Esmerine – Dalmak
Initially, the first outing from Constellation mainstays Esmerine since 2011’s La Lechuza signals no departures from their chamber sound: opener Learni... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
Festivals
Summercamp festival, Liverpool, 24-25 Aug
It's a bank holiday weekend, and Liverpool International Music Festival and everything else that's going on seem perfectly aligned as the sun beams down on t... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
ReviewsGlasvegas – Later... When the TV Turns to Static
It’s not often a band wanes with a curve as smooth as that shown by Glasvegas, descending from heart-conquering bright young things to Later…&rs... Read more »| 27 Aug 2013 -
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Jessy Lanza – Pull My Hair Back
Co-produced by Jeremy Greenspan of Junior Boys, Canadian Jessy Lanza's debut for Hyperdub continues to rehabilitate 90s R&B as pioneered by the likes of ... Read more »| 27 Aug 2013
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Lorn – Debris
Lorn confirms in just four tracks why he is one of the most forward-thinking and intelligent producers in the bass music spectrum. Where Ask The Dust was by ... Read more »| 27 Aug 2013 -
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Factory Floor – Factory Floor
Factory Floor's long-anticipated full-length debut doesn't deviate much from its mission statement – the trio, who define their music merely as 'indust... Read more »| 27 Aug 2013 -
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Ultraísta – Remixes
The list of remixers on this album by Nigel Godrich's Ultraísta project is a who's who of experimental electronic music, perhaps giving a key insight ... Read more »| 26 Aug 2013 -
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Richard Buckner – Surrounded
Richard Buckner’s best songs are simple affairs. Usually it’s a simple, plucked guitar accompaniment and a smattering of keys and harmonies. His ... Read more »| 26 Aug 2013 -
Live Music
Blondes @ Soup Kitchen, Manchester, 24 Aug
In an age where electronic music is saturated by bar after bar of aesthetic perfection, the mounting exposure that Brooklyn electronic two-piece Blondes &nda... Read more »| 26 Aug 2013 -
Reviews
Drumcell – Sleep Complex
Constructed lovingly on analogue equipment (the TR-909, TR-808 and TB-303 all feature heavily), and with a final bass-oriented mixdown by Frankfurt-based tec... Read more »| 24 Aug 2013 -
ReviewsThe Dodos – Carrier
It may still only be August, but going by the number of cosy autumnal folk bands sniffing out of their burrows, the leaves must be falling already. To be fai... Read more »| 24 Aug 2013 -
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Jackson & His Computerband – Glow
A welcome return from Jackson Fourgeaud, who has been quiet since 2005's Smash. The results are impressively eclectic, taking in psych-rock on opener Blow, p... Read more »| 23 Aug 2013 -
Live Music
Allah-Las @ Leaf, Liverpool, 21 Aug
“Out on the water, where you gonna find me,” sings Miles Michaud, evoking the dreamy shores of California, from where this Los Angeles quartet ha... Read more »| 23 Aug 2013