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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ReviewsUnderworld – Barbara Barbara We Face a Shining Future
Underworld’s first album in six years starts with what could arguably be described as their biggest banger since Beaucoup Fish's Kittens from 1999. I E... Read more »| 26 Feb 2016 -
ReviewsJames – Girl at the End of the World
James enter their fourth decade with at least a sliver of their original, dissident character intact. Girl at the End of the World is, on one level, mor... Read more »| 26 Feb 2016 -
Festivals
LCD Soundsystem set for T in the Park 2016
LCD Soundsystem will play their first Scottish show since 2010 at this summer's T in the Park festival at Strathallan Castle. Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
Festivals
Win prizes at Sounds from the Other City festival!
Sounds from the Other City festival returns to Salford this May bank holiday, filling venues and streets with its usual madcap mix of music, art and performa... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
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Matthew Bourne – Moogmemory
The improvisational pianist, composer and winner of 2001's Perrier Jazz Award takes a step aside from his multiple collaborative projects to immerse himself ... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
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Mugstar – Magnetic Seasons
Heavyweight psychedelic Liverpudlians Mugstar return with a record that takes tripped-out space rock to its disorienting maximum. Exclusively instrumental (a... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016
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Richard J Birkin – Vigils
Inspired by river mist and Murakami, and carrying echoes of Nils Frahm and Max Richter’s Sleep, sound artist/composer Birkin’s new work is behold... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
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Wintersleep – The Great Detachment
Now a decade and a half into their career, the typically dependable Canadian rockers return with their first LP since 2012's Hello Hum. Produced by Tony... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
ReviewsM. Ward – More Rain
If you’re scanning these pages for a record your granny might be into, this is the one. Also known for his work alongside Zooey Deschanel as the other ... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
ReviewsLåpsley – Long Way Home
Despite making her name, initially, with spectral, minimalist bedroom productions, Liverpudlian artist Låpsley explores new territory on her debut Long... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
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Chin of Britain – The Weasel is at the Bridge
Get into the groove. The follow-up to Chin Keeler's 2013 debut is a pared-down, trippy brew of bracing beats and spiralling wig-outs. As ever, Keeler pl... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
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Wussy – Forever Sounds
Back in 2012, Robert Christgau, self-proclaimed Dean of American rock critics, said Wussy “have been the best band in America since they released the f... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
Live Music
Savages / Bo Ningen @ The Art School, 21 Feb
Savages’ sound check starts, and a heavy, heavy kick-drum reverberates through everyone’s stomachs. “Ooft,” gasps a very bearded man,... Read more »| 24 Feb 2016 -
Reviews
Poliça – United Crushers
Nervy percussion, spare arrangements, Channy Leaneagh's distinctive vocals: Poliça are as easily identifiable as ever, despite not bein... Read more »| 24 Feb 2016 -
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Jo Mango & Friends – Wrack Lines EP
A wrack line is the word for the trail of washed-up detritus the tide leaves behind upon the beach. In the context of Jo Mango’s project, it also descr... Read more »| 24 Feb 2016