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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ReviewsMutual Benefit – Skip A Sinking Stone
Slipping effortlessly between wispy, lo-fi gospel and warm trails of orchestration, the second album from Mutual Benefit (aka Jordan Lee) doesn’t want ... Read more »| 11 May 2016 -
ReviewsRadiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
Back in the day, before Spotify and YouTube, bands inspired tribes. Radiohead were part of your identity, where you placed yourself. It's still difficult to ... Read more »| 11 May 2016 -
ReviewsMethyl Ethel – Oh Inhuman Spectacle
Australian multi-instrumentalist Jake Webb explores a fascination with texture, arrangement and mood on his debut album. 4AD's patronage makes perfect s... Read more »| 11 May 2016 -
Reviews
Kate Jackson – British Road Movies
The equal – at least – of the two dazzling artworks she delivered with The Long Blondes, Jackson's solo debut comes eight years after guitarist D... Read more »| 11 May 2016 -
Live Music
Tacocat @ Electric Circus, Edinburgh, 3 May
“If you close your eyes, it’ll sound like there’s three of us.” Niall Strachan looks a little lonely on the Electric Circus stage ton... Read more »| 11 May 2016 -
Reviews
Sophia – As We Make Our Way (Unknown Harbours)
Robin Proper-Sheppard has always had a way with love. Of viewing it at odd angles, teasing out the strands of heartbreak almost before hearts have been broke... Read more »| 11 May 2016
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Reviews
Summer Cannibals – Full of It
The Portland band arrive on this, their third album. A ferocious – and ferociously cerebral – collection, these 11 songs rattle your sternum whil... Read more »| 11 May 2016 -
Festivals
Sounds From the Other City, Salford, 1 May
Welcome to Clashfinder hell. Sounds From the Other City returns with its largest, most ambitious bill to date. Read more »| 10 May 2016 -
Reviews
Gold Panda – Good Luck and Do Your Best
When you look beyond life's gauntlet of insufferable bullshit, sometimes we do live in a bright, wonderful world; Derwin Panda has decided it’s time to... Read more »| 10 May 2016 -
ReviewsBeth Orton – Kidsticks
Beth Orton rolls back the years with an exceptional return to form. Read more »| 10 May 2016 -
Reviews
Malcolm Middleton – Summer of ‘13
“Won’t someone please come on and diagnose me with something,” urges the curiously uplifting opener Steps. “I’m not making prog... Read more »| 09 May 2016 -
Reviews
Holy Fuck – Congrats
Holy... shit. Chimes Broken, the opening track to the saintly, sweary Canadians’ surprise new album will smack you in the teeth, twice. Three times, ev... Read more »| 09 May 2016 -
Interviews
Andrew Hung on Fuck Buttons' future and Beth Orton
The Skinny interrupts Andrew Hung's holiday in Hong Kong to find out what makes the prolific Fuck Buttons man tick. Read more »| 09 May 2016 -
Festivals
SFTOCSkinny photo competition: the winner!
Did you go to Sounds from the Other City festival this year? If you took part in our #SFTOCSkinny photo competition, you'll want to check out the snaps below. Could yours be the winning photo? Good luck! Read more »| 09 May 2016 -
Live Music
65daysofstatic @ O2 Academy 2, Liverpool, 28 Apr
The Sheffield noiseniks bring a short live hiatus to an end in resounding fashion in Liverpool Read more »| 09 May 2016