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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ReviewsLife Coach – Alphawaves
Originally conceived as a solo outlet for Trans Am founder Phil Manley’s homage to late krautrock visionary Conny Plank, this second album as Life Coac... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013 -
ReviewsThe Knife – Shaking the Habitual
Accompanied by a manifesto expressing distaste for the 'already imagined', siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer's first record as The Knife in s... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013 -
ReviewsUncle Acid & the Deadbeats – Mind Control
Mt. Abraxis, the cinematic opener from Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats' second full-length, starts out with sorrowful guitar licks and steadily paced cymbal c... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013 -
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Louie – Lost On Hope Street
The front man of incendiary live hip-hop band Hector Bizerk steps out from the shadows with an intensely personal, viscerally political album of hip-hop trac... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013 -
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Wiley – The Ascent
Another Wiley album, another threat from perhaps the last surviving well-known grime rapper with any credibility left to retire – leaving us to the ten... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013 -
News
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 27 March
Black Sun split; Pussy Riot on 60 minutes; Björk joins Berlin Festival; plus new music from Mount Kimbie, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Hey Colossus Read more »| 27 Mar 2013
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Live Music
FutureEverything @ Islington Mill, 20-23 Mar
At the festival launch, as we probe our amuse-bouches and survey the city from the eighth floor of NOMA53 – that beached blue alien just off Rochdale R... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013 -
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Vondelpark – Seabed
When you're stuck in the spaces in-between – on journeys home at uncomfortable dawns, in cold living rooms at the wrong end of the morning – you'... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013 -
ReviewsKurt Vile – Wakin On a Pretty Daze
Album five brings with it a watershed moment in Kurt Vile’s career. Before even pressing play, the vivid colour saturation of the cover and extended tr... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013 -
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Trwbador – Trwbador
Since forming in 2010, Carmarthenshire’s Trwbador (aka Welsh-Dutch singer Angharad Van Rijswijk and guitarist/producer Owain Gwilym) have forged a dist... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013 -
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Roddy Woomble – Listen to Keep
The sleeve for Listen to Keep includes a snap of Roddy Woomble relaxing by a fireplace, shoes off and feet up. The music, meanwhile, evidences Woom... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013 -
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Major Lazer – Free The Universe
Once upon a time Diplo made visionary, psychedelic hip-hop music infused with ragga vocals, artfully distressed samples, and a mercurial approach to beats th... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013 -
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Loch Lomond – Dresses
Now in its tenth year of existence, Ritchie Young’s Loch Lomond project has grown and receded through many guises, moving from solo beginnings to becom... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013 -
ReviewsDear Reader – Rivonia
Dear Reader (the nom-de-plume of South African songwriter Cherilyn MacNeil) has named third album Rivonia after the Johannesburg neighbourhood she ... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013 -
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Dolor – Misteria
Dolor's first official solo release on new label Technicolour doesn't disappoint, after his strong collaboration with Lorn on their Drugs mixtapes – th... Read more »| 26 Mar 2013