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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ReviewsJamiroquai - High Times: Singles 1992 - 2006
Musically, those high times were short-lived indeed Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Ben Folds - Supersunnyspeedgraphic, The LP
catchy, fun and completely bemusing. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
ReviewsBattle of Mice - A Day of Nights
The need for companionship often drives many to some kind of socially-encouraged insanity and needless to say, there has been much music born of this fact. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Acoustic Ladyland - Skinny Grin
One of the most interesting jazz influenced albums of recent years àterrifying, brutal and ultimately quite amazing. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Koop - Come To Me
Like a soundtrack to the greatest war-time drama ever. Buy it. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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(+44) - Lycanthrope (Polydor)
The fart jokes have gone and just maybe there's a hint of Alkaline Trio in the mix. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006
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ReviewsOk Go - Here It Goes Again
Full of enormous hooks and tenacious choruses mixed with mock English accents. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Die! Die! Die! - Die! Die! Die!
Searing art-rock with occasional quiet moments, juxtaposed with frenetic punk blasts and crazed screeches. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Tapes 'n Tapes - Omaha
...distinct final-single-from-an-album kind of feel... Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Less Than Jake - P.S. Shock The World
The chorus protrudes from the middle of the track like some hideous flesh wound. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Kiddo - 135 Days EP
Kiddo create their own sound, built up from the dilettantish rhythms that seep into the lead guitar lines. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - War Of The Worlds
sounds good for a while, then it just dies on itself. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Live Music
The Ordinary Boys - How To Get Everything You Ever Wanted In Ten Easy Steps (B-Unique)
a tragically limp record determined to ride the crest of an opportunist wave Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Susurrus Station - 1,2 Unbuckle the Blue
Walks a tightrope between the obliquely poetic and the plain pretentious Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Yourcodenameis:milo - Print Is Dead Vol. 1
The results are often shocking. The Trapeze Artist is brutal and comes with chopped, heavy riffing and manic wails, yet features The Automatic. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006