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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ReviewsMurs X Fashawn – This Generation
Murs is a Los Angeles hip-hop legend, deep in the scene since 1993, with notable releases and collaborations including Felt (a duo he formed with Slug of Atm... Read more »| 26 Sep 2012 -
ReviewsThavius Beck – The Most Beautiful Ugly
An instrumental album from rapper and superproducer Thavius Beck has about fifty times as many ideas crammed into it as most hip-hop records, even without hi... Read more »| 26 Sep 2012 -
ReviewsMoon Duo – Circles
Moon Duo’s debut Mazes invited its listeners to get lost in a sonic labyrinth of stargazing krautrock jams. The title of successor Circl... Read more »| 26 Sep 2012 -
ReviewsThe Pyramids – Otherworldly
Listening to Otherworldly, the first release from this legendary US cosmic jazz collective since they disbanded in 1977, is – appropriately enough &nda... Read more »| 26 Sep 2012 -
ReviewsKreidler – Den
Den is the eleventh studio album released by this Düsseldorf instrumental quartet since their formation in 1994, but their prolific output shows no si... Read more »| 26 Sep 2012 -
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Flying Lotus – Until the Quiet Comes
If Cosmogramma was the sound of Flying Lotus coming of age, making a statement of intent that would define the approach and philosophy not just of his Brainf... Read more »| 25 Sep 2012
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Videos
New Errors video for 'Engine Homes'
In the first of an eight part online trail across various UK music websites from today, you can hear each track and watch the accompanying visuals for Errors' New Relics mini-album (available via Rock Action on CD, download and VHS from 1 Oct) in full Read more »| 25 Sep 2012 -
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Terror Danjah – The Dark Crawler
Terror Danjah has been around since grime’s inception, producing classic dancefloor-destroying rhythms (anyone remember Zumpi Hunter?). His debut for H... Read more »| 25 Sep 2012 -
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Daphni – Jiaolong
Dan Snaith’s Daphni project functions, for him, as a kind of antithesis to his more well-known Caribou alter ego; as he explains, the creative proces... Read more »| 25 Sep 2012 -
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Negative Pegasus – Looming
If one has ever been introduced to Negative Pegasus by way of a festival flyer or an egotist blog, allow the following to function as an official disclaime... Read more »| 24 Sep 2012 -
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Hidden Orchestra – Archipelago
Hidden Orchestra's sophomore album sees the Edinburgh outfit once more trading in lushly-orchestrated, cinematic compositions with strings, flute, horn and b... Read more »| 21 Sep 2012 -
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Homeboy Sandman – First of a Living Breed
Homeboy Sandman's liquid flow and intelligent lyrics make him a perfect fit for Stones Throw, and tracks like the soul-inflected Whatchu Want From Me? and th... Read more »| 21 Sep 2012 -
Live Music
El-P / Despot / Bigg Taj & Spee 69 @ Stereo, 18 September
With Stereo's basement superheated to a temperature somewhere beyond that of a tropical rainforest, the night kicks off with a set from UK rapper Spee 69 a... Read more »| 20 Sep 2012 -
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Rangda – Formerly Extinct
The second LP from this absurdly talented US psych-rock supergroup – comprising two of the most thrilling guitarists around, in Sir Richard Bishop an... Read more »| 20 Sep 2012 -
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Two Fingers – Stunt Rhythms
Over a sixteen-year career, Brazil’s Amon Tobin has demonstrated an unerring creative instinct which, combined with his painstaking attention to det... Read more »| 20 Sep 2012