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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ReviewsTurin Brakes - Dark On Fire
Listeners may feel that they've been snagged by that age-old trap of inverse single-to-filler ratio Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Tom Ovans - Party Girl
A bleak and austere commentary on the daily grind of American life Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
ReviewsThe Checks - Hunting Whales
Though technically outstanding, after all of these years of similar sound forgery it could prove difficult to buy into this template wholeheartedly Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
ReviewsScout Niblett - This Fool Can Die Now
Majestic doesn't seem too strong a word Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Pram - The Moving Frontier
Feels more like a film soundtrack than an LP to sit up and pay attention too Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Northern Alliance - The Hand of God
Blissful listening Read more »| 08 Oct 2007
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Miracle Fortress - Five Roses
Graham van Pelt could easily be a member of the Animal Collective: buzzier than Panda Bear, he'd be called Bumble Bee Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
ReviewsJenny Hoyston - Isle Of
A mish-mash of half-formed ideas Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Live Music
Acoustic Ladyland @ Cabaret Voltaire
How much fun it is to shun expectations and traditions? Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Live Music
Boredoms @ The Arches
Dance AND brutality? not me, I just NOISE and GO Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Live Music
Hell Is For Heroes, Westport Bar, Dundee, 26 Oct
Playing to their strengths when on a sticky stage Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Live Music
The Coral, ABC, Glasgow, 20 Oct
We're lucky to still have these Scouse scallywags around at all Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Live Music
The Decemberists @ Carling Academy
Granted, they're a bit nuts on record, which translates to 'should I alert a care home?' onstage, but Christ, they're entertaining. Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Kyte - Planet
Everybody's doing a brand new dance now… Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Robots In Disguise - The Sex Has Made Me Stupid
Sets your pulse racing and your hips gyrating Read more »| 08 Oct 2007