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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ReviewsJames Ross – Chasing the Sun
This seven-movement suite from Caithness composer/pianist James Ross, initially commissioned for the Blas festival, retells a journey along the north coast... Read more »| 10 Apr 2012 -
ReviewsThe Leg – An Eagle to Saturn
Rambunctious Edinburgh trio The Leg count Julian Cope among their fans, and indeed An Eagle to Saturn sounds in many ways like a throwback to the more eccen... Read more »| 10 Apr 2012 -
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Poliça – Give You The Ghost
Born from the sprawling indie-explosion Gayngs, duo Poliça have friends in high places, with their collaborative cohort Justin Vernon of Bon Iver fa... Read more »| 10 Apr 2012 -
InterviewsFence Records' Seamus Fogarty: "I just do whatever, even if it doesn't pay the bills!"
Seamus Fogarty is a talented guy, and a great drinking buddy, as The Skinny found out one Saturday in London Read more »| 10 Apr 2012 -
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Various Artists – Sea Monsters 2
Brighton’s One Inch Badge follow last year’s Sea Monsters scene sampler with Sea Monsters 2, and like most sequels, it’s a bulkier beast. ... Read more »| 10 Apr 2012 -
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Alabama Shakes – Boys and Girls
The American south seems to imbue an indelible sense of itself upon the music made by its natives, that curious blend of country, rock ‘n’ roll,... Read more »| 09 Apr 2012
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Live Music
Odd Future @ O2 ABC, 1 April
The touts are doing brisk business outside the ABC tonight. Inside the venue, the queue for the merch stall almost rivals that of the bar. Odd Future, who ... Read more »| 05 Apr 2012 -
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Torche – Harmonicraft
Whether consciously or not, Torche have always been a group famed for realising a crazed, delicate balance between doom metal, grunge and power pop. Their... Read more »| 05 Apr 2012 -
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Moonface – With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery
Initially, Moonface seemed to possess its own niche in Spencer Krug’s ever-proliferating portfolio: single-track debut Dreamland offering up “mar... Read more »| 05 Apr 2012 -
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Screen – We Are Screen
The latest side-project of The Orb’s Alex Paterson, a collaboration with reggae/dub producer Gaudi and percussionist/vocalist Chester, eschews curren... Read more »| 05 Apr 2012 -
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Tom Williams & The Boat – Teenage Blood
Tom Williams & The Boat’s second album was funded by fans via Pledge Music, allowing the Tunbridge Wells-troubadour to retain full artistic contr... Read more »| 05 Apr 2012 -
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THEESatisfaction – awE naturalE
As only the second hip-hop act to be signed to Sub Pop (the other being Shabazz Palaces, with whom THEESatisfaction have worked extensively), this Seattl... Read more »| 05 Apr 2012 -
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The Plimptons – The Plimptons are Cynical and Bloated
Cynical and bloated are two things The Plimptons are most definitely not. Their three-chord buzzsaw garage rock is better described as lean and playful. The... Read more »| 05 Apr 2012 -
ReviewsSpiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light
Sweet Heart Sweet Light opens with a sumptuous, succinct instrumental (Huh?), before diving balls first into a nine-minute glam rock opus (Hey Jane)... Read more »| 05 Apr 2012 -
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JK Flesh – Posthuman
Justin K. Broadrick's genre-hopping tendencies have been well documented across a multitude of projects: aside from his industrial metal roots in Godflesh,... Read more »| 05 Apr 2012