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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ReviewsNatural Self – Neon Hurts My Eyes
Neon Hurts My Eyes marks a striking shift in direction for Brighton producer Nathaniel Pearn, aka Natural Self. Previously known for an aesthetic that d... Read more »| 28 Feb 2013 -
Live MusicO2 Love Music Column – March 2013
It’s a preview of two halves this month as the old indie vanguard rubs shoulders with some spritely young RnB hopefuls Read more »| 28 Feb 2013 -
ReviewsConquering Animal Sound – On Floating Bodies
Entropy and hydrostatics aren’t your average lyrical fodder, but Conquering Animal Sound (aka Anneke Kampman and James Scott) aren’t your average... Read more »| 28 Feb 2013 -
ReviewsSuede – Bloodsports
When Barriers – the first new music from Suede in 10 years – hit as a free download this month it may not have achieved Bowie-level coverage, but... Read more »| 28 Feb 2013 -
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Parenthetical Girls – Privilege
Although touted as the fourth LP from this Portland-based avant-indie quartet, Privilege is technically a compilation, comprising remixed and remas... Read more »| 28 Feb 2013 -
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Tullycraft – Lost in Light Rotation
Lost in Light Rotation comes bouncing through your speakers like a rubber ball dropped from a third floor window. Yet behind these sub-three minute guitar po... Read more »| 28 Feb 2013
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Scott & Charlene's Wedding – Two Weeks EP
The nuptials between Erinsborough’s number one sweethearts isn’t the crispest of pop culture references, but it befits a project with its head in... Read more »| 28 Feb 2013 -
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Specter At The Feast
BRMC built their name on sharp blues-rock stompers that were big on hooks and less keen on legible vocals. But as great as Whatever Happened To My Rock N&rsq... Read more »| 28 Feb 2013 -
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VASQUEZ – EP426
It’s hard to talk about Edinburgh trio VASQUEZ without first acknowledging their debt to the great lineage of progressive instrumental rock bands who t... Read more »| 28 Feb 2013 -
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Daughter – If You Leave
If You Leave is not an album for the impatient. With an average track length of around 8 minutes, and triumphant closer Shallows weighing in at 11, Daug... Read more »| 28 Feb 2013 -
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Blank Realm – Go Easy
Brisbane’s Blank Realm have evolved from a psych-jam outfit into something more controlled, but the elements of that beginning remain evident on G... Read more »| 28 Feb 2013 -
News
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 27 February
In today's Bulletin: The return of Nine Inch Nails; Ghostpoet, David Byrne and St. Vincent on tour; new music from Bowie, A-Trak, Com Truise and eagleowl; webcomic Achewood to become a TV show, plus all the latest festival news Read more »| 27 Feb 2013 -
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Kid Canaveral – Now That You Are a Dancer
With Now That You Are a Dancer, Kid Canaveral make the whole ‘difficult second album’ to-do look terribly passé, offering a textbook ... Read more »| 27 Feb 2013 -
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Aera – Offseason Traveller
The debut LP from this Berlin-based producer, mainly known for his quietly seductive house output, confronts the structural difficulties which LPs sometimes ... Read more »| 27 Feb 2013 -
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Post War Years – Galapagos
All Eyes, the opening track on this Hackney-based quartet’s second LP, opens proceedings with bold but unwieldy bluster: a slow, grandiose would-be ant... Read more »| 27 Feb 2013