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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ReviewsUniversal Thee – All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
If it’s become a cliché that Scotland – a dreich outcrop sitting atop Western Europe like a soggy top hat – understands the virtues ... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
ReviewsAnimal Collective – Painting With
The Baltimore avant-garde return with their most focused LP in years Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Reviews
Teen – Love Yes
Its sharp pop sensibilities could fool you into thinking it's not quite as weird as it is, but don’t be tricked: Love Yes is away with the fairie... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
ReviewsLily & Madeleine – Keep It Together
Lily & Madeleine sang 'complacency is the currency/good enough is enough for me' on their 2014 release Fumes. And while their output at such a young age ... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
ReviewsSarah Neufeld – The Ridge
Sarah Neufeld’s previous outing, Never Were The Way She Was, provided a fascinating conversation between the fluid majesty of her violin and the virtuo... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
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The Cave Singers – Banshee
The Seattle folk rockers' crowdfunded LP is staid, safe and destined to live in the background. Read more »| 03 Feb 2016
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El Guincho – Hiperasia
Album número tres from astro-exotica producer Pablo Díaz-Reixa plays like a radio shuffling through stations. Hiperasia – named after a s... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Live Music
A Mote of Dust / Finn LeMarinel @ The Hug and Pint, 31 Jan
When does a Finn LeMarinel track end? In a hot and airless Hug and Pint – the Celtic Connections banner no doubt aiding a sell-out – and it&rsquo... Read more »| 02 Feb 2016 -
Live Music
Plastic Animals / Frog @ Wee Red Bar, 29 Jan
While the past fifteen years have seen the guitar/drums duo become as familiar a line-up as the standard rock quartet, most of the usual practition... Read more »| 02 Feb 2016 -
Live Music
John Grant @ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 26 Jan
Glasgow crowds never disappoint. No sooner has the mighty Mr. Grant ambled onto the Royal Concert Hall’s spacious stage (casually dressed: jeans, Nikes... Read more »| 02 Feb 2016 -
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Amy Duncan – Undercurrents
Amy Duncan’s fifth studio album is as gentle, elegant and lovely as any believer in softly orchestrated folk could want. The multi-instrumentalist... Read more »| 02 Feb 2016 -
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So Pitted – Neo
Melodies are all well and good, but they’ll only get you so far. Sometimes all you wanna hear is something that’ll crush you into the ground. Ste... Read more »| 02 Feb 2016 -
Live Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – February 2016
Despite February’s brevity, there’s a generous selection on offer to satisfy our sonic yearnings and quell any lingering winter discontent. Read more »| 02 Feb 2016 -
News
John Carpenter announces Lost Themes II album
Horror maestro John Carpenter has announced details of a follow-up to his Lost Themes album, ahead of his first ever live gigs. Often cited as a source... Read more »| 01 Feb 2016 -
Live Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – February 2016
The big guns get firing in February with Joanna Newsom, Foals and Tame Impala all in town – but there are still gems to be found among the smaller venues Read more »| 30 Jan 2016