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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Reviews
David Ford - I Don't Care What You Call Me
Quiet guitar, mellow organs and fully hum-able melodies in place. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
ReviewsTwo Gallants - 'What The Toll Tells'
They do not slump into their sophomore album àno, they crash through it, banging and booming, yelling and yearning. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
ReviewsTony Allen - Lagos No Shaking
lamely recontextualising all the pre-cursory afro-beat elements that went on to inform hip-hop and funk Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Reviews
The Chalets - Theme From Chalets
...striking similarities with Paula Abdul's Opposites Attract... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Live Music
Sway @ The Liquid Room @ Edinburgh
Sway proves he possesses the showmanship to match his entrepreneurial prowess, emerging to the British national anthem and punctuating his set with an impromptu rendition of Can't Touch This. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Live Music
This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb @ Subway Cowgate
Culminates in a human pyramid which repeatedly collapses like a soufflé Read more »| 17 Mar 2006
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The Research - 'Breaking Up'
The Wakefield trio pull it off shamelessly well at times Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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The Mile End Ladies String Auxiliary - 'From Cells of Roughest Air' EP
Godspeed and Set Fire To Flames performing their apocalyptic compositions after walking home along cosmopolitan rue St-Laurent Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Skye - 'Mind How You Go'
Skye gets personal Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Morning Runner - Wilderness is Paradise Now
This piano changes mood like it has multiple personalities. It begins with bombastic rocky intentions, only to become all tearful and smooth. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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FBC - 'The Landing Party'
Welcome to Jazz Club, where the drinks are overpriced but the people are nice Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
ReviewsDilated Peoples - '20/20'
Back again is the cunningly entitled first single from Dilated Peoples' latest record '20/20' and considering the current climate in bling-loving la-la-land, thankfully it's true Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
ReviewsCorinne Bailey Rae - 'Corinne Bailey Rae'
The R&B anticlimax of the season Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Reviews
Carol Laula - 'Kitchen Stories'
The songs smoothly run the gamut of emotions from A to B, but rarely stretch to C. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Live Music
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Liquid Room @ Edinburgh
I did not clap my hands. I did not say yeah. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006