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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NewsThe GIT Award returns for 2016
Liverpool music prize The GIT Award will return for a fifth successive year, honouring the best music to emerge from the city. Acts can submit their entries ... Read more »| 07 Jan 2016 -
ReviewsTortoise – The Catastrophist
Listening from record to record, you’d barely notice most changes in Tortoise’s oeuvre – there’s nothing here quite so forcefull... Read more »| 07 Jan 2016 -
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Eleanor Friedberger – New View
Recorded in a converted barn studio near her new home in upstate New York, former Fiery Furnaces frontwoman Eleanor Friedburger’s third solo record is ... Read more »| 07 Jan 2016 -
Live MusicA Winged Victory for the Sullen @ St Philip's Church, Salford, 14 Dec
The experimental classicists are on intoxicating form in beautiful Salfordian surroundings Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
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PAUW – Macrocosm Microcosm
Accomplished and playful, the Dutch quartet's debut is a likeable slice of psychedelia. But that's only half the story. While scene leaders Tame Impala ... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
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Daughter – Not to Disappear
If Daughter's debut had you label the London trio as de rigueur indie alt-folk, think again: Not to Disappear sets their tender, haunted shadowplay... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016
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Interviews
Mercury Rising: SOAK talks from Hong Kong
Derry teenager Bridie Monds-Watson has been wowing audiences under the moniker SOAK for years already. We catch up with her on tour in Hong Kong to talk about going global, emotional honesty and plans for 2016 Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
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Savages – Adore Life
Few bands can rule that 'love is the answer' without a single wink of irony, and pull it off with magnificent, majestic aplomb. For this reason, amongst many... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
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Emma Pollock – In Search of Harperfield
Devotees of former indie magicians The Delgados will find much to love in Emma Pollock's third solo album since her revered band amicably split in 2005. The ... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
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Shearwater – Jet Plane and Oxbow
Back in 2008, with breakthrough Rook newly hatched and attracting fresh interest, Shearwater were invited to open a handful of dates on Coldplay’s... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
ReviewsThe Besnard Lakes – A Coliseum Complex Museum
If you like giant orbs, the great outdoors, hanging out in museums and being told creepy, candle-lit stories of strange beasts and ghostly happenings, you&rs... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
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Songs For Walter – Songs For Walter
After years of gracing the various backstreet and basement stages of his hometown, Manchester's Laurie Hulme finally releases his debut album. A hotch-potch ... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
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Mystery Jets – Curve of the Earth
Those firing into Curve of the Earth expecting the same twinkly-eyed, danceable indie-pop as their seminal debut Making Dens (some ten years later, would you... Read more »| 05 Jan 2016 -
Interviews
Black Sheep: LuckyMe's NAKED plot their debut LP
Ungoogleable darksmiths NAKED help The Skinny break down one of the most hotly anticipated debuts of the coming year Read more »| 05 Jan 2016 -
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Howes – 3.5 Degrees
Delicate, sparse, occasionally transmogrifying; the debut album from Manchester-based musician John Howes is both back-lit and fugue-like, riffing upon solit... Read more »| 05 Jan 2016