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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ReviewsSwans – The Seer
With a running time of two hours, Swans' second album since the project's reactivation in 2010 is something of an endurance test. Yet, given band leader M... Read more »| 07 Aug 2012 -
ReviewsNed Collette & Wirewalker – 2
The second album from Ned Collette’s Wirewalker project, and the first since the Melbourne-born songwriter relocated to Berlin, subtly augments his ... Read more »| 07 Aug 2012 -
InterviewsFactory Floor: "We're still totally unsure of what we do; it's still exploratory"
Factory Floor have dragged industrial music kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century with their blend of techno, experimental noise and improvised performance Read more »| 03 Aug 2012 -
Live MusicMorrissey @ The Usher Hall, 30 July
With no current record deal and self-imposed retirement looming (2014, he says), Morrissey has everything and nothing to prove tonight. Recent reports sugg... Read more »| 02 Aug 2012 -
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Dan Deacon – America
America by name, America by nature. Dan Deacon's follow-up to his 2009 career high Bromst is swathed in the big, bold and sometimes graceless chutzpah of the... Read more »| 02 Aug 2012 -
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Stealing Sheep – Into the Diamond Sun
If you've heard Stealing Sheep's single Shut Eye, you'd be forgiven for writing them off as an all-girl Fleet Foxes tribute act. Nothing wrong with that,... Read more »| 02 Aug 2012
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Nathan Fake – Steam Days
For an artist whose first album cradled one of techno’s most evocative slow-burners to date, anything that follows is always going to be held up in c... Read more »| 02 Aug 2012 -
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Franz Nicolay – Do The Struggle
Anyone who ever saw him play with The Hold Steady would never have doubted whether Franz Nicolay had the cojones to be a good frontman. And so it has trans... Read more »| 02 Aug 2012 -
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The Dirty Dozen – August 2012
Veering from constructive criticism to outright disgust, Alejandra Deheza and Benjamin Curtis of School of Seven Bells have a good cop/bad cop gander at August's sixties-indebted promo pile. Read more »| 01 Aug 2012 -
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Toots & The Maytals – Unplugged on Strawberry Hill
As one of the most influential and renowned reggae outfits of all time, Toots and The Maytals’ work will be familiar to anyone with a passing interes... Read more »| 01 Aug 2012 -
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Yeasayer – Fragrant World
Yeasayer, that most postmodern of American bands, can never be trusted to stay in one place for very long. From first to second album, their previously tri... Read more »| 01 Aug 2012 -
ReviewsSix Organs of Admittance – Ascent
Adopting the maxim ‘if you’ve got it, flaunt it,’ Six Organs of Admittance’s Ben Chasny opens his latest album with a big, bold guit... Read more »| 01 Aug 2012 -
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Paul Vickers and Friends – Nest of Knickers
Like the shows at which it will be sold, Paul Vickers’ latest album offers a lot of variety. Previously-unreleased Dawn of the Replicants tracks si... Read more »| 01 Aug 2012 -
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Toddla T – Watch Me Dance: Agitated by Ross Orton & Pipes
Orton & Pipes are legendary figures on the Sheffield soundsystem circuit, and this remix project sees them deconstruct the populist ragga-meets-R'n'B-mee... Read more »| 01 Aug 2012 -
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Scott Kelly and the Road Home – The Forgiven Ghost in Me
Given the steady incorporation of folk elements into his main band's palette, as well as that of side project Blood and Time, Scott Kelly's solemn, apocaly... Read more »| 01 Aug 2012