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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ReviewsAnathema – Weather Systems
Anathema's early contributions to doom metal are easy to disregard when they've been riding on the soft rock train with such grace for so long. If 2010's W... Read more »| 19 Apr 2012 -
ReviewsUfomammut – Oro: Opus Primum
Ufomammut have been significant players in a well-populated heavy metal sect for some time now. Honourable disciples of sludge, these Italians are ever-dev... Read more »| 17 Apr 2012 -
ReviewsCancer Bats – Dead Set on Living
Some fans may be pleased to know that the slow-burning artiness of Cancer Bats' 2010 offering Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones is dropped for a slicker, mor... Read more »| 17 Apr 2012 -
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Kassidy – One Man Army
It’s always easy to pick on a soft target. But, just why Kassidy seem to have provoked such vitriol in certain corners of the music community is perpl... Read more »| 13 Apr 2012 -
Interviews
Scottish Album of the Year Award Longlist announced
Today the Scottish Music Industry announced its Longlist for the inaugural Scottish Album of the Year Award. Selected from a comprehensive list of 2011's hom... Read more »| 12 Apr 2012 -
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North Atlantic Oscillation – Fog Electric
It's fitting that North Atlantic Oscillation’s second album, Fog Electric, was produced by Tony Doogan, best known for his production work for Mogwai... Read more »| 11 Apr 2012
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Live MusicOrbital @ O2 Academy, 7 April
As suggested in their recent interview with The Skinny, Orbital are keen not to lean on their old hits in the live settings, but also to not disappoint the ... Read more »| 11 Apr 2012 -
Live Music
Butcher Boy @ Cottiers, 6 April
Reverieme open tonight depleted and in mild disarray; guitarist Andrew Lindsay is caught in traffic, and no one knows how to work the tuner on his pedal. Fur... Read more »| 11 Apr 2012 -
Live Music
A farewell to Take A Worm For A Walk Week @ Stereo, 5 April
Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchison takes in Take A Worm For A Walk Week's final fling Read more »| 11 Apr 2012 -
Interviews
Miaoux Miaoux: "I’m obsessed with writing perfect pop songs"
Recently signed to Chemikal Underground, 'indie-tronic' producer Julian Corrie aka Miaoux Miaoux discusses his initial fear of Glasgow and why he believes in happy coincidences Read more »| 11 Apr 2012 -
Reviews
Whores – Ruiner EP
Let's get this out of the way: Whores' debut release is completely blunt and confrontational. The sleazy bassline which dominates first track Daddy's Money... Read more »| 11 Apr 2012 -
ReviewsGraham Coxon – A+E
Created as a conscious response to the burn-out he experienced touring 2009’s brilliant and meticulously crafted The Spinning Top, A+E finds Coxon embr... Read more »| 11 Apr 2012 -
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James Ross – Chasing the Sun
This seven-movement suite from Caithness composer/pianist James Ross, initially commissioned for the Blas festival, retells a journey along the north coast... Read more »| 10 Apr 2012 -
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The Leg – An Eagle to Saturn
Rambunctious Edinburgh trio The Leg count Julian Cope among their fans, and indeed An Eagle to Saturn sounds in many ways like a throwback to the more eccen... Read more »| 10 Apr 2012 -
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Poliça – Give You The Ghost
Born from the sprawling indie-explosion Gayngs, duo Poliça have friends in high places, with their collaborative cohort Justin Vernon of Bon Iver fa... Read more »| 10 Apr 2012