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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ReviewsGastric Band – Party Feel
As their moniker might imply, Glasgow's Gastric Band are tight. There is barely an ounce of fat on debut album Party Feel: a wild-eyed odyssey enco... Read more »| 31 May 2013 -
Live MusicO2 Love Music Column – June 2013
Trying to encapsulate the sprawling career of Todd Rundgren (O2 ABC, 6 Jun) is a particularly difficult task. Perhaps best known for eternal pop hi... Read more »| 31 May 2013 -
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Deafheaven – Sunbather
San Francisco's Deafheaven brought a great crossover record to the table with 2011's Roads to Judah, a dramatic debut which used the passionate aggressi... Read more »| 30 May 2013 -
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Lumerians – The High Frontier
Like Geoff Barrow's BEAK>, Lumerians are naturally gifted musicians whose playing meshes perfectly, with influences that span psychedelia and experimental... Read more »| 30 May 2013 -
ReviewsGold Panda – Half Of Where You Live
Gold Panda's second album picks up where Lucky Shiner left off, offering a leftfield, inventive take on various electronic forms. Junk City takes its time to... Read more »| 30 May 2013 -
ReviewsCSS – Planta
With former member (and apparent mastermind) Adriano Cintra off in a huff, the CSS señoritas are left to fend for themselves, giving us an LP put... Read more »| 30 May 2013
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ReviewsQueens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
From Josh Homme’s youth as a prodigious stoner rock visionary in Kyuss to the slick, guitar pop-skewing renaissance man we see at the helm of Queens to... Read more »| 30 May 2013 -
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Spectrals – Sob Story
Spectrals – the nom de plume of Yorkshire singer-songwriter Louis Jones – introduced his brand of lovelorn guitar pop on 2011’s p... Read more »| 30 May 2013 -
Live Music
Bob Mould @ Òran Mór, 18 May
With his compelling autobiography, acclaimed solo albums, and comprehensive Sugar reissues in the last few years, interest in Bob Mould is as high ... Read more »| 29 May 2013 -
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Mykki Blanco @ Islington Mill, Salford, 16 May
The DJ's beats instigate little more than gentle foot-tapping among the audience; but there is an undisclosed buzz in the room that hints at electric anticip... Read more »| 29 May 2013 -
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Young Fathers – Tape Two
Young Fathers' lo-fi take on 90s R&B, classic soul and old-school hip-hop is increasingly experimental, and that's no bad thing. Their recent excursions ... Read more »| 29 May 2013 -
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Quickbeam – Quickbeam
Although Quickbeam is their debut release, this Glasgow-based quartet have been honing their ethereal, meditative folk for three years, and their d... Read more »| 29 May 2013 -
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Camera Obscura – Desire Lines
For those unfamiliar with the term, ‘desire line’ is the poetic name given to those winding dirt trails that appear when people walk a certain ro... Read more »| 29 May 2013 -
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These New Puritans – Field of Reeds
Billed as a suite in three instalments of three tracks each, These New Puritans' third LP is a studious affair, as absorbant as it is absorbing (among its ma... Read more »| 29 May 2013 -
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Icky Blossoms – Icky Blossoms
It’s sometimes tough to distinguish between maverick eclecticism and plain old muddlement, with Icky Blossoms' exhibit A. The pedigree of its... Read more »| 29 May 2013