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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InterviewsFrench Wives: The Inbetweeners
Fifteen months in the making, French Wives release their debut Dream of the Inbetween later this month. “I’m sure the thought’s crossed all our minds already,” ponders frontman Stuart Dougan. “‘What if people don’t like it…?’” Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
ReviewsRichard Hawley – Standing At The Sky's Edge
Cave dwellers! One-time Pulp and Longpigs guitarist Richard Hawley found solo success in the mid-noughties by writing melodic baroque pop that perfectly su... Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
ReviewsOne Little Plane – Into the Trees
The second LP from One Little Plane, aka Chicago singer-songwriter Kathryn Bint, is a collection of drowsy, backwoods folk/Americana, underpinned by gentle... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
ReviewsRichard Knox & Frédéric D. Oberland – The Rustle of the Stars
Envisioned as a sonic voyage through the vast and barren reaches of the North Pole, this collaborative album between multi-instrumentalist Fréd&eacu... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
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Gringo Star – Count Yer Lucky Stars
With track titles including Esmerelda and Mexican Coma, those new to Gringo Star’s schtick might expect their moniker to directly reference their sou... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
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Two Wings – Love's Spring
Too often, ‘folk’ is used as a rigid template to which musicians adhere far too strictly, rehashing the past rather than creating something new. ... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012
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Live Music
The Metal Column – May 2012
As festival season gets underway, we find that many of our favourite bands are preoccupied in distant lands, leaving us here in the dirt, so to speak, and wi... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
Festivals
Clubbing at the Festivals: Playing The Field
If Scottish summer festivals leave you cold (and wet, and windy), then an escape to greener pastures might be your ticket Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
Reviews
Holy Esque – Holy Esque EP
Holy Esque's self-released debut EP is an auspicious start for the young Glasgow-based band. They have a cathartic, transcendent sound that harks back to t... Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
ReviewsOFF! – OFF!
In a time when even your average beatdown-heavy 'hardcore' band sounds polished, pristine and conventional, OFF!'s self-titled debut in all its 17-minute g... Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
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Holy Mountain – Earth Measures
A welcome addition to Scotland's heavy rock landscape, Earth Measures' six tracks begin as short, snappy and barbed stabs at punk rock, before evolving int... Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
Reviews
▲AIMON – Flatliner
'Witch house' was never a particularly commercial proposition, so it is unsurprising that many artists are unwilling to be plastered with the term, or have d... Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
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Jesus H. Foxx – Endless Knocking
Seven members comprise this leftfield Edinburgh indie outfit, who mingle strings, cornet, and glockenspiel with more orthodox instrumentation. Yet even th... Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
Interviews
New Order: “Hooky’s not spoken to us in God knows how many years”
New Order’s Stephen Morris explains the Salford legends’ resurgence, their unfinished record, and why he couldn’t find a steady job anywhere else. Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
Reviews
It Hugs Back – Laughing Party
As if It Hugs Back’s band name wasn’t misleadingly twee enough, Laughing Party’s title and colourful cover seem like a concerted effort to... Read more »| 26 Apr 2012