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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ReviewsNow On - Eye Level
measured flow, a deep funk and soulful references Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Manage -
an apocalyptic waste-land of concrete and sin, freedom of speech is the only salvation Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Laibach - Volk
Musically familiar for Laibach fans, the true accomplishment of 'Volk' is in the political ground that it finds. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
ReviewsKat Vipers - Summer Bloody Time
evolving the piano from a sedate accompaniment to a jagged, raging lead instrument Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
ReviewsJohann Johannsson - IBM 1401, a User's Manual
It is actually the interpretation of the electromagnetic waves emitted by this archaic IBM when placed beside a radio transmitter... Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
With the world intent on imploding, the haven of Beirut seems the most comforting place to be. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006
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ReviewsHalfway - Remember The River
Meanders along quite calmly - there's barely a ripple, let alone a wave, to trouble your stream of consciousness. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Broadcast - The Future Crayon
Versatile to the point of almost breaking Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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The Black Keys - Your Touch
The baddest and best it's sounded since Cream Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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RedCarsGoFaster - 24 Passes / House of Flies
24 Passes is never far away from Joy Division's Glass, jazzed up with a little rock-disco. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Johann Johannsson - The Sun's Gone Dim and the Sky's Turned Black
Delightful, and a perfect example of fusing classical music with avant-electronics.
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The Drones - Gala Mill
Good haunting dust bowl rock for those days spent sitting on a log swigging whiskey and drinking beans out of the can.
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The Aquarium - The Aquarium
It's nice to hear a band who are arty without being po-faced about it.
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Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red Sun
Swelling, never ending guitar crescendos and trance inducing war drums. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Dead Meadow - Dead Meadow
Every party needs a hallucinatory hippy album to finish things off mellow, and Dead Meadow might be just the come-down. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006