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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ReviewsPere Ubu – Carnival of Souls
Roll up, roll up – but keep your wits about you. Pere Ubu are back with Carnival of Souls, and judging by the album’s sustained air of menace, it... Read more »| 28 Aug 2014 -
ReviewsSimian Mobile Disco – Whorl
Opening with two lush, beatless atmospheric tracks, Whorl feels like a very different incarnation of Simian Mobile Disco from the outset. Abandoning computer... Read more »| 28 Aug 2014 -
ReviewsRobert Plant – Lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar
"The whole impetus of my life as a singer has to be driven by a good brotherhood,” says Robert Plant of his new album. Recorded with current touring se... Read more »| 28 Aug 2014 -
ReviewsHalf Japanese – Overjoyed
Oh, Jad Fair! A true rival to Guided By Voices’ Robert Pollard in the (mind-bogglingly) prolific indie veteran stakes, he’s also a testament to t... Read more »| 27 Aug 2014 -
ReviewsSpider Bags – Frozen Letter
Those bursts of skin-searing fuzz should do it: exhilarating heat courtesy of Dan McGee’s guitar, raising the temperature just enough to fry everything... Read more »| 27 Aug 2014 -
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Vessel – Punish, Honey
An album that begins with 12 seconds of almost unbearably tense silence, clashing, arrhythmic drum hits, drilling, and industrial noise will inevitably be ca... Read more »| 27 Aug 2014
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Gudrun Gut und Joachim Irmler – 500m
On 500m’s cover, the album’s creators introduce themselves via cartoon speech bubbles, though we’d hazard that anyone tempted by the record... Read more »| 27 Aug 2014 -
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First Charge of the Light Brigade – First Charge of the Light Brigade
It’s a shame Glasgow’s First Charge of the Light Brigade didn’t manage to push their self-titled debut album out a couple of months ago, wh... Read more »| 26 Aug 2014 -
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Homeboy Sandman – Hallways
With production handled by DJ Spinna, Jonwayne, a clutch of emerging beatmakers, and a fantastic contribution from minimalist composer Josef Van Wissem, Home... Read more »| 26 Aug 2014 -
Videos
Kiran Leonard – Oakland Highball (Live) | The Skinny Sessions
The second of two tracks, Kiran Leonard and band recently played Oakland Highball live in session for us at Edinburgh's Electric Circus. Read our recent prof... Read more »| 26 Aug 2014 -
Live Music
Jeffrey Lewis & the Jrams @ The Deaf Institute, Manchester, 23 August
When an artist as tirelessly creative as Jeffrey Lewis makes his first appearance in Manchester for three years (barring last year's show with veteran folk h... Read more »| 26 Aug 2014 -
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Tricky – Adrian Thaws
Adrian Thaws is, of course, Tricky’s real name. But don’t expect this album to reveal anything new about the Knowle West boy. Rather, Adrian Thaw... Read more »| 26 Aug 2014 -
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sleepmakeswaves – Love of Cartography
The lambent, dreamlike qualities of sleepmakeswaves’ post-rock re-imaginings have always been underscored by a winning paradox: music without words it ... Read more »| 26 Aug 2014 -
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Interpol – El Pintor
If opener and lead single All the Rage Back Home doesn’t hook from the off, fear not. Like much of this fifth album from the newly trim trio, bassist C... Read more »| 26 Aug 2014 -
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Sinkane – Mean Love
Sinkane's 2012 album Mars made a convincing case for Ahmed Gallab being the inheritor of Curtis Mayfield's crown. On Mean Love, his delicate falsetto, the br... Read more »| 26 Aug 2014