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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ReviewsKurt Vile – b’lieve I’m goin down
Perhaps the natural meeting point between the gloomy Smoke Ring For My Halo and 2013’s more robust Wakin On A Pretty Daze, b’lieve I’m goin... Read more »| 03 Sep 2015 -
Reviews
Slayer – Repentless
The metal titans return with a composed, if unoriginal, new record that belies their recent turmoil Read more »| 03 Sep 2015 -
ReviewsBattles – La Di Da Di
Thank God for Battles. First emerging in the mid-noughties, theirs was a brand of fiery, frenetic art rock unlike any other: experimentalism charged with a s... Read more »| 02 Sep 2015 -
ReviewsSkylar Spence – Prom King
If it takes hefty willpower and 15 minutes of eyeballing your spots in the bathroom mirror before you can dance on a Friday night, here’s yer cure. Pre... Read more »| 02 Sep 2015 -
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Beirut – No No No
Few make the little appear big (and the big sound intimate) as elegantly as Zach Condon. Now back within the 4AD fold and recorded over a two week period in ... Read more »| 02 Sep 2015 -
ReviewsLe Butcherettes – A Raw Youth
Shards of ‘80s synth (My Malley; Witchless C Spot). Grungy, pre-millennial attitude (They Fuck You Over; The Hitchhiker). Scuzzy, sidewalk bass (pretty... Read more »| 02 Sep 2015
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Reviews
Ought – Sun Coming Down
The ease with which Ought play at disorder is baffling. Slipping breezily from improv-infused chaos into tightly woven riffs, the Montreal-based four piece t... Read more »| 02 Sep 2015 -
Interviews
Ought's Tim Darcy on Sun Coming Down
Ought's Tim Darcy describes the strange hive mind and shared psyche of Montreal’s hotly tipped post-punk band Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
Live Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – September 2015
Behold! The month of psych is here, with Liverpool Psych Fest dominating proceedings, while we also have a rather special event up our sleeves Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
Live Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – September 2015
In a month of indie rock heavyweights, Future Islands face off with Baltimore housemates Dope Body at the Barras, Tame Impala swing down on Glasgow from their cosmic plane and Mac DeMarco turns the ABC into a slacker den Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
Reviews
Low – Ones and Sixes
Feel that? It’s floating in between the aeons that pass between chords. It’s the haunting harmonies that shiver from the lips of Alan Sparhawk an... Read more »| 31 Aug 2015 -
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The Cesarians – Pure White Speed
Modern life desperately needs agit-pop. Something to shoot holes in perceived wisdom. Get it wrong, however, and you can end up with a mess like Pure White S... Read more »| 31 Aug 2015 -
ReviewsMike Krol – Turkey
Judge Mike Krol as much for what he isn’t as for what he is. After eight blasts of searing fuzz-pop, this blink-and-you’ll-miss-it album switches... Read more »| 31 Aug 2015 -
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Seamus Fogarty – Ducks and Drakes EP
There’s nothing hurried or harried about Seamus Fogarty’s music, as Ducks and Drakes favourably attests. The EP’s title track opens with it... Read more »| 31 Aug 2015 -
Festivals
Lowlands 2015: The Review
If you're hankering for a smaller scale festival that still draws big talent, look no further Lowlands, a three day offering of rock, electronic and hip-hop held just outside Amsterdam. Here's our lowdown on this year's exemplary edition. Read more »| 28 Aug 2015