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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ReviewsErrors - It's Not Something But It Is Like Whatever
A brilliantly synthetic album Read more »| 29 May 2008 -
ReviewsLykke Li - Youth Novels
Swedish songstress delivers very promising debut Read more »| 29 May 2008 -
Reviews
Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up 'Til It Was Light
Awash with striding cuts of teenage gusto, this is an exhilarating and triumphant debut - just remember to don those ear-plugs. Read more »| 29 May 2008 -
Playlists
I Hear a New World (June, 2008)
Innovative and unusual music from Scotland and beyond Read more »| 29 May 2008 -
Reviews
Alphabeat - This Is Alphabeat
Could this be the worst album of the decade? Read more »| 29 May 2008 -
InterviewsTokyo Police Club: Not Just Making Up The Numbers
They're young, ambitious and, er, highly professional. Not your average rock band then, as Finbarr Bermingham comes to learn Read more »| 28 May 2008
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Reviews
Headhunter - Initiate EP
It’s a solid offering adding more weight to the Tempa name and indeed helping to establish a name that’s maybe not the most prolific or talked about producer on the block Read more »| 28 May 2008 -
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Testcard - Lines
Sounding like a extremely lame child of The Faint, the album takes the late 80s pop blueprint and... well, doesn't really do much with it Read more »| 28 May 2008 -
Live Music
The Aliens @ The Liquid Room, 16 Jun (CANCELLED - 3 Jun)
Quality pop songs in the key of Fife, if you will Read more »| 28 May 2008 -
Reviews
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Will The Real Jim James please stand up? Read more »| 28 May 2008 -
InterviewsSilver Jews vs. The World
Literally sitting on the edge of his seat backstage at Glasgow’s ABC, an animated David Berman rails against current trends in popular music. The reflective coordinator behind the countrified, lo-fi indie rock of the Silver Jews tells Paul Mitchell why we've become too complacent to rage against the machine Read more »| 27 May 2008 -
Reviews
Spiritualized - Songs in A&E
Songs in A&E maintains a natural development in the band's career: quieter, yes, but as thunderously emotive as ever Read more »| 27 May 2008 -
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V/A - Toolroom Knights Mixed by Tom Novy & Wally Lopez
Novy shows a disconcerting love of cheesy vocals though his instrumental version of Ono’s No No No Read more »| 27 May 2008 -
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Fanattica - Edingrad
Balkan-influenced mania to make even the scurviest of sea dogs heave and haul those oars Read more »| 27 May 2008 -
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Bilge Pump - Rupert the Sky
A disturbing and difficult album Read more »| 27 May 2008