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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ReviewsBenjamin Booker – Benjamin Booker
“The future is slow coming,” laments Benjamin Booker on the fourth track of his debut album and the first chance for the listener to catch breath... Read more »| 30 Jul 2014 -
ReviewsRumour Cubes – Appearances of Collections
Oh, this is a beauty. Don’t let it get lost in the bewildering murk of the release calendar, or side-lined by the fickle fancies of the taste-makers. S... Read more »| 30 Jul 2014 -
Reviews
Grumbling Fur – Preternaturals
There'd be browned pants galore, should any of the current delay-pedal toting garage rock crop masquerading as 'psychedelic' delve as deeply into the mind's ... Read more »| 30 Jul 2014 -
ReviewsCelebration – Albumin
Celebration was born in 2004, when Katrina Ford, Sean Antanaitis and David Bergander dropped the name Birdland for something with more of a triumphant tone. ... Read more »| 30 Jul 2014 -
Reviews
The Ramona Flowers – Dismantle and Rebuild
There’s a particular seam within the current indie strata that’s all but been mined out. The mass hunger for sweeping, fist-pumping anthemics, ho... Read more »| 29 Jul 2014 -
ReviewsOwl John – Owl John
The Frightened Rabbit frontman continues his adventures in songwriting with a more experimental but hugely enjoyable solo LP Read more »| 29 Jul 2014
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ReviewsSoft Walls – No Time
Confession time. When Cold Pumas dropped their debut in 2012, this hack was thoroughly unimpressed. I said as much via a clumsy whine on a reputable reviews ... Read more »| 29 Jul 2014 -
Reviews
Adult Jazz – Gist Is
There's something reluctant about Adult Jazz's debut LP. The four-piece, Leeds Uni alumni and students of Joanna Newsom, Van Morrison and Animal Collective, ... Read more »| 29 Jul 2014 -
Live Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – August 2014
Get out of the sweaty sun and into the cool darkness of our best gig venues to see the likes of Action Beat, Pissed Jeans and Lower. If it’s sun you’re after though, we’re praying for plenty at our Do Not Miss event Read more »| 29 Jul 2014 -
Reviews
FKA Twigs – LP1
LP1. Love that. Dismissive of the po-faced, bow-down-before-me hubris displayed by most féted progeny, Tahliah Barnett opts for low key and ego-free. ... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
Reviews
Trans Am – Volume X
There’s a mind-blowing moment halfway through Night Shift, the third track on Trans Am’s Volume X; having shuffled gloriously through two mi... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
Interviews
Sebastian Thomson on 20 years of Trans Am
As Trans Am notch their tenth studio album, Sebastian Thomson has an awful lot to reminisce about. He chats to The Skinny about longevity, irony and obscene strategies Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
Live Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – August 2014
From Earth to Converge, it's a fine month to be a cultist Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
Live Music
Conor Oberst @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 21 July
While angst remains etched through his music like lettering through a stick of rock, a waistcoated and wise-cracking Conor Oberst appears relatively relaxed ... Read more »| 24 Jul 2014 -
Live Music
The Afghan Whigs @ O2 ABC, 18 July
“I don’t care what age you are, there’s a fuckin’ 16 year old inside,” after 100-odd minutes of sweating and roaring his way th... Read more »| 23 Jul 2014