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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ReviewsGumba Fire: Bubblegum Soul & Synth-Boogie in 1980s South Africa
Soundway Records' latest compilation is a fantastic introduction to the party-starting bubblegum sound from South Africa Read more »| 05 Mar 2018 -
Reviews
Martha Ffion – Sunday Best
Sunday Best is a confident debut chock-full of understated pleasures, one that hints Martha Ffion will only get better as her career progresses Read more »| 05 Mar 2018 -
ReviewsYoung Fathers – Cocoa Sugar
Cocoa Sugar is a potent mix of sugary boy band choruses, tongue-twister rap and surreal imagery making for the Leith trio's best album yet Read more »| 05 Mar 2018 -
Interviews
Young Fathers on Cocoa Sugar and Edinburgh's live music scene
We pay Young Fathers a visit in their Leith studio space to talk about new album Cocoa Sugar, via pop dreams, improv poetry, huge horses and the future for Edinburgh's live scene Read more »| 05 Mar 2018 -
Art
Call and Response: Kobi Onyame vs the artist
An experimental music-art collaboration takes place this month in Many Studios in Glasgow, pairing artists with tracks from Kobi Onyame's acclaimed new album GOLD Read more »| 05 Mar 2018 -
Live MusicJD McPherson @ Gorilla, Manchester, 27 Feb
Averting our minds from the snow and cold outside, JD McPherson brings a warm air of Tulsa rock'n'roll to Gorilla's intimate stage tonight Read more »| 02 Mar 2018
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Opinion
Songs: Ohia – The Magnolia Electric Co. 15 years on
Fifteen years after it was released and five years after the death of Jason Molina, The Magnolia Electric Co. stands as a shining reminder of the talent we lost too soon Read more »| 02 Mar 2018 -
Festivals
Hidden Door Festival: 2018 programme revealed
The festival returns to the Leith Theatre for a ten-day programme of music, dance, film, spoken word and more Read more »| 02 Mar 2018 -
Interviews
Gwenno on Le Kov and the Cornish language
Sung entirely in Cornish, Gwenno Saunders’ new album is a warm world of collective memories and a document of a language that’s well and truly alive Read more »| 02 Mar 2018 -
Interviews
Reality Bytes: Inside Superorganism's World
Superorganism tell us about the process of making their cross-continental debut album, nearly suffering an existential crisis and building the Superorganism world Read more »| 01 Mar 2018 -
ReviewsBearcubs – Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet is a superb headtrip, with every snare and synth laboured over but if you spend enough time submerged in it, the edges sadly start to blur Read more »| 01 Mar 2018 -
Reviews
Buffalo Tom – Quiet and Peace
Quiet and Peace isn't a bad record, it's just one of those albums that makes you realise that the world moves on Read more »| 28 Feb 2018 -
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Tracey Thorn – Record
Everything but the Girl's Tracey Thorn gives us "nine feminist bangers" on her latest solo album Record Read more »| 28 Feb 2018 -
Reviews
Embrace – Love is a Basic Need
With too many attempts at hitting the biggest of big ballad highs, Love is a Basic Need buckles under the weight of its own ambition too many times Read more »| 28 Feb 2018 -
Reviews
The Men – Drift
Drift sees The Men return to Sacred Bones and higher production values, but in their typically skittish style can't see them settle on one particular style or genre Read more »| 28 Feb 2018