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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InterviewsMercury Rising: SOAK talks from Hong Kong
Derry teenager Bridie Monds-Watson has been wowing audiences under the moniker SOAK for years already. We catch up with her on tour in Hong Kong to talk about going global, emotional honesty and plans for 2016 Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
ReviewsSavages – Adore Life
Few bands can rule that 'love is the answer' without a single wink of irony, and pull it off with magnificent, majestic aplomb. For this reason, amongst many... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
ReviewsEmma Pollock – In Search of Harperfield
Devotees of former indie magicians The Delgados will find much to love in Emma Pollock's third solo album since her revered band amicably split in 2005. The ... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
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Shearwater – Jet Plane and Oxbow
Back in 2008, with breakthrough Rook newly hatched and attracting fresh interest, Shearwater were invited to open a handful of dates on Coldplay’s... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
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The Besnard Lakes – A Coliseum Complex Museum
If you like giant orbs, the great outdoors, hanging out in museums and being told creepy, candle-lit stories of strange beasts and ghostly happenings, you&rs... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
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Songs For Walter – Songs For Walter
After years of gracing the various backstreet and basement stages of his hometown, Manchester's Laurie Hulme finally releases his debut album. A hotch-potch ... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016
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Mystery Jets – Curve of the Earth
Those firing into Curve of the Earth expecting the same twinkly-eyed, danceable indie-pop as their seminal debut Making Dens (some ten years later, would you... Read more »| 05 Jan 2016 -
InterviewsBlack Sheep: LuckyMe's NAKED plot their debut LP
Ungoogleable darksmiths NAKED help The Skinny break down one of the most hotly anticipated debuts of the coming year Read more »| 05 Jan 2016 -
ReviewsHowes – 3.5 Degrees
Delicate, sparse, occasionally transmogrifying; the debut album from Manchester-based musician John Howes is both back-lit and fugue-like, riffing upon solit... Read more »| 05 Jan 2016 -
Live Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – January 2016
From Daughter to Vieux Farka Touré and a first appearance in Liverpool for Hollie McNish, January’s gig calendar has plenty to keep those brandy-soaked blues at bay Read more »| 04 Jan 2016 -
Live Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – January 2016
We cast an eye over a few treats from the central belt's live music calendar this coming month, featuring mini-festivals Celtic Connections, King Tut's New Year Revolution and the return of Bristol's finest. Read more »| 04 Jan 2016 -
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Then Thickens – Colic
There’s plenty of drugs and death on Then Thickens’ second album, and it’s soaked in the damage done by both. My Sunday finds Jon-Lee ... Read more »| 02 Jan 2016 -
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De Rosa – Weem
Though they announced their reunion back in 2012, the release of Weem bookends a hiatus of almost seven years for Bellshill quintet De Rosa. Now a trio in th... Read more »| 02 Jan 2016 -
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Hinds – Leave Me Alone
What a year Hinds had. 2015 saw the Madrid garage-rockers explode onto the international scene, scooping up fancy festival slots with tracks like Bamboo, and... Read more »| 31 Dec 2015 -
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Guadalupe Plata – Guadalupe Plata
The kind of record that leaves you feeling you need a bath, Guadalupe Plata is beyond dirty. A scuzzed-up, howlaround, frenzied fusing of blues forms and pun... Read more »| 30 Dec 2015