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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InterviewsComputer World: Liars' Angus Andrew talks WIXIW
Twelve years into a career characterised by restless experimentation, Liars' frontman Angus Andrew explains how his band came to to boot up their laptops, forget about songwriting and make one of their most singular LPs thus far. Read more »| 01 Jun 2012 -
Reviews
Future of the Left – The Plot Against Common Sense
Brace yourself: Andy Falkous has some things to get off his chest. The Plot Against Common Sense sees him exercise his caustic humour on a variety of irritan... Read more »| 01 Jun 2012 -
ReviewsLiars – WIXIW
Constructed around nebulous themes of doubt, fear and introspection, WIXIW finds Liars spinning a timbrally-rich web of mangled samples, sparing instrumenta... Read more »| 01 Jun 2012 -
ReviewsThe Dirty Dozen – June 2012
Still Flyin' – Spirits (Highline, 4 Jun)Dean McClure: Described as 'San Francisco's favourite hammjammers.' I'm putting San Francisco and 'hammjammers'... Read more »| 01 Jun 2012 -
OpinionHero Worship: Jane Siberry
Canadian singer Jane Siberry has never had much of a profile in the UK, but her witty, cinematic music is a an absolutely vital part of Andrew-Eaton Lewis' of Swimmer One's life. Read more »| 01 Jun 2012 -
Live Music
The Metal Column – June 2012
A look at upcoming rock and metal gigs in June, featuring The Damned, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Guitar Wolf and many more. Read more »| 01 Jun 2012
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Reviews
A Place to Bury Strangers – Worship
It's never pretty when good bands go off the boil but the drop off that A Place to Bury Strangers seem to have experienced since 2009's Exploding Head is pa... Read more »| 01 Jun 2012 -
Reviews
Star Wheel Press – Life Cycle of a Falling Bird
When a lead singer possesses such a distinctive burr, it’s often easy to overlook everything that sits behind it. Not so on Life Cycle of a Falling B... Read more »| 31 May 2012 -
ReviewsNecro Deathmort – The Colonial Script
Imperial, the opener to Necro Deathmort's third longplayer, seeks to bewilder and confuse with an array of scattered laptop beats before giving way to the bl... Read more »| 30 May 2012 -
Reviews
Volcano! – Piñata
Instantly appealing on the outside, but with treats at their core: the piñata not only provides a name for Volcano!’s third album, it’s a ... Read more »| 29 May 2012 -
Reviews
Metallic Taste of Blood – Metallic Taste of Blood
Metallic Taste of Blood are a multicultural collective of semi-familiar faces whose eponymous debut curiously fuses together elements of prog, dub, math-ro... Read more »| 29 May 2012 -
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The Invisible – Rispah
The untimely death of front-man Dave Okumu's mother massively informs the making of Rispah (the title being his mother's first name) and lush meditations on ... Read more »| 29 May 2012 -
Festivals
Coachella – Field of Glamorous Dreams
A pasty Scot heads for the glamour-packed fields of Indio, California, for a Coachella festival that smells of roses, not piss... Read more »| 29 May 2012 -
Reviews
The Lost Brothers – So Long John Fante
With their debut released way back in 2008, it seemed The Lost Brothers might have taken their moniker literally and gone AWOL. But they’ve been b... Read more »| 28 May 2012 -
Reviews
Laurel Halo – Quarantine
Laurel Halo's full-length debut is the darker, experimental twin of Grimes' Visions Read more »| 28 May 2012