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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Live MusicEvian Christ / Koreless / Lorenzo Senni / Visionist / TCF @ RNCM, Manchester, 29 March
Despite little being known about upcoming producer TCF, his lush acousmatic composition juxtaposed by gravelly digital decay has stunned audiences and got cr... Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
Live Music
O2 Love Music Column – April 2014
Aussie indie-dance remix aficionados Cut Copy have been touring since December 2013 off the back of fourth LP Free Your Mind, and the final European leg pull... Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
ReviewsEMA – The Future's Void
Erika M Anderson’s Past Life Martyred Saints was an explosive, unsettling debut, a day-glo riot of sputtering confessional and expression... Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
ReviewsStumbleine ft. Violet Skies – Dissolver
Stumbleine's production is undeniably more deep and beautiful than ever on this full-length collaboration with Violet Skies, not least in the way he treats t... Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
News
Download Smell the Da.I.S.Y., a new J-Dilla produced mixtape from De La Soul
De La Soul have released their new Dilla-produced mixtape, Smell the Da.I.S.Y., for free online Read more »| 28 Mar 2014 -
Videos
Ten Rapid: the best new music videos with Gruff Rhys, Thee Oh Sees, and Daniel Avery
A week in music videos, with Thee Oh Sees lost in an animated fantasy world, Gruff Rhys on a magical mystery tour, plus new music from indie-folk lot Fatherson, rock and roll rebels The Amazing Snakeheads, Glasgow rapper Gasp and acid-head Daniel Avery Read more »| 28 Mar 2014
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Videos
The Skinny at SxSW 2014: Meursault, We Were Promised Jetpacks and more play Showcasing Scotland
Footage from Showcasing Scotland at SxSW 2014 in Austin, Texas, featuring performances by Meursault, Young Fathers, Withered Hand, Honeyblood, Casual Sex and We Were Promised Jetpacks, plus commentary from the event by Vic Galloway Read more »| 28 Mar 2014 -
Reviews
Brolin – FLAGS Mixtape
Producer and vocalist Brolin warms up for his dsbut album, expected later this year, with a mixtape that sees him collaborating with, remixing, bring remixed by and re-purposing tracks by Dam Mantle, Raffertie, Sinkane and others. Read more »| 28 Mar 2014 -
Live Music
Wild Beasts @ Albert Hall, Manchester, 26 March
Anyone would think it were a homecoming, as almost 2000 people join the swell of Lion’s Share: “Boy, what you running from?”, they implore,... Read more »| 28 Mar 2014 -
Playlists
Cloud Sounds #11: with The Phantom Band, Fucked Up, The Afghan Whigs, and more
The latest instalment of our Music team's regular playlist also features new music from Randolph's Leap, Fucked Up, Floating Points, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, and former Teenage Fanclub member Lenzie Ross Read more »| 27 Mar 2014 -
ReviewsTeebs – E s t a r a
Teebs' new album is at once definitively a product of the LA beat scene, and evidence of his capacity to grow beyond that scene's far-reaching, experimental ... Read more »| 27 Mar 2014 -
Reviews
The Cosmic Dead – Easterfaust
Glasgow's The Cosmic Dead are the real deal, and have been trading in the kind of tweaked-out, acid-drenched, sprawling riffage so currently in vogue for fou... Read more »| 27 Mar 2014 -
ReviewsAvey Tare's Slasher Flicks – Enter The Slasher House
While his Animal Collective wing-man Panda Bear’s songs are otherworldly and angelic, Avey Tare (né Dave Portner) frequently occupies the other ... Read more »| 27 Mar 2014 -
Reviews
The Body – I Shall Die Here
The Haxan Cloak spent months processing The Body's urgent, howled vocals and feral blasts of shredded guitar noise, transfiguring them into the dense and opp... Read more »| 27 Mar 2014 -
Reviews
Cloud Nothings – Here and Nowhere Else
“I’m moving forward while I keep the past around me,” rasps 23-year-old Dylan Baldi on Pattern Walks, the seven-minute earth-scorcher from ... Read more »| 27 Mar 2014