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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ReviewsColin Stetson – SORROW
Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 is a masterpiece of minimalism. It makes sense, then, that a fellow master of the minimal – avant-garde saxo... Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
ReviewsParquet Courts – Human Performance
After last year’s wilfully difficult Monastic Living EP, you’d be forgiven for expecting Parquet Courts’ latest full-length album to take a... Read more »| 29 Mar 2016 -
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Frightened Rabbit – Painting of a Panic Attack
Give or take a month, it’s been ten years since Frightened Rabbit put out the first run of Sing the Greys on the tiny Hits the Fan label. It seems pert... Read more »| 29 Mar 2016 -
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September Girls – Age of Indignation
2014's Cursing the Sea did just enough to flag the potential of this Dublin five piece: their shadowy debut was sharply styled but that winning aesthetic alo... Read more »| 28 Mar 2016 -
ReviewsShonen Knife – Adventure
Shonen Knife, by strength of statistics alone, have earned their legendary status ten times over. The revolutionary Osaka punk band are celebrating their 35t... Read more »| 28 Mar 2016 -
ReviewsNew Albums This Week: The Thermals, Bob Mould
Our round-up of the best new music released this week, including the return of Hutch Harris and The Thermals, and solo LP number eleven from Hüsker Dü's Bob Mould. Read more »| 25 Mar 2016
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Interviews
Protomartyr on The Agent Intellect
"We think that we’re living in the future and we know what’s going on, but we really don’t” – Joe Casey Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
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The Field – The Follower
Swedish producer Axel Willner’s 2011 album title, Looping State of Mind, perhaps sums up his music as The Field better than anything. Referencing ... Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
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Mogwai – Atomic
Upon motive alone, this is a poignant release – a reworked version of the original soundtrack created for Belfast-born director Mark Cousins’ doc... Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
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Alun Woodward – Music From Battle Mountain
It's been seven years since Alun Woodward's last album (2009's eponymous Lord Cut-Glass LP), so the very emergence of Battle Mountain feels like a triumph. W... Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
Festivals
Other Worlds 2016: Festival Watch
Sun, sea, sex and sand? Other Worlds festival, this April’s adventure of the senses, can’t promise all four – but it’ll give it a jolly good try. Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
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Future of the Left – The Peace and Truce of...
“The proper music abounds,” sneer Future of the Left on their fifth album, taking potshots at the tedium of 'authenticity' while barrel-roll... Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
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Black Mountain – IV
Those searching for echoes of Black Mountain's thunderous 2008 release In The Future won't find it in latest record IV. This is certainly not to say that the... Read more »| 24 Mar 2016 -
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Yeasayer – Amen and Goodbye
If there’s a suspicion that Brooklyn’s Yeasayer try just a little too hard, it’s not a feeling that their fourth LP is going to disprove; A... Read more »| 24 Mar 2016 -
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Moderat – III
'Why must I hide / In the forests of my mind?' asks Sascha Ring – aka Apparat – in the opening lines of Eating Hooks. It’s as cle... Read more »| 24 Mar 2016