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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ReviewsFFS – FFS
Some musical partnerships are just meant to be. Take Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks, making colourful and unorthodox pop together for fast approaching half a... Read more »| 28 May 2015 -
ReviewsGirlpool – Before the World Was Big
The L.A. duo's debut full-length is a sparse, palpably emotional affair Read more »| 28 May 2015 -
ReviewsJaakko Eino Kalevi – Jaakko Eino Kalevi
Kalevi’s new self-titled album is a comprehensive introduction to an artist surely destined to become one of synth-pop’s quirky new posterboys &n... Read more »| 27 May 2015 -
Reviews
We Came From Wolves – We Came From Wolves
The debut effort from Scottish four-piece We Came From Wolves is a slick and consistently catchy collection of anthemic pop-rock songs written specifically f... Read more »| 27 May 2015 -
ReviewsMates Of State – You're Going To Make It
Connecticut’s favourite husband-wife duo return with a five-song burst of new wave-tinged melodicism, as warm and wonderful as ever. It’s splendi... Read more »| 27 May 2015 -
ReviewsMiaoux Miaoux – School of Velocity
“Oh my god. It really is beautiful,” croons Julian Corrie – aka Miaoux Miaoux – on a track named Luxury Discovery. Both the... Read more »| 27 May 2015
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Reviews
J Fernandez – Many Levels of Laughter
After three EPs, J Fernandez finally comes through with debut full length Many Levels of Laughter – and hasn’t lost any of his DIY eclectici... Read more »| 27 May 2015 -
Live Music
Hidden Door: LoneLady @ King's Stables Road, 22 May
First things first, Hidden Door isn’t as hidden as the would-be detective in you might hope. A stone’s throw from the Grassmarket, the ‘sec... Read more »| 26 May 2015 -
Live Music
In Pictures: Randolph's Leap, Book Group and The Sons at Nothing Ever Happens Here
Summerhall's gig series continues, Kat Gollock was down the front... Read more »| 26 May 2015 -
Reviews
Thee Oh Sees – Mutilator Defeated At Last
Another batch of blast furnace psych from the ever-fertile mind of John Dwyer and co. With the daydream haze of last year’s Drop putting an end to the ... Read more »| 26 May 2015 -
Live Music
Hinds / Oscar / Kill Surrrf @ Broadcast, 21 May
Taking point on tonight’s well-rounded bill, Glasgow four-piece Kill Surrrf conjure a balmy heatwave through the power of unruffled songwriting and sou... Read more »| 26 May 2015 -
Reviews
Daughn Gibson – Carnation
Carnation is a frustrating record. According to Gibson, it’s marked from his previous releases by a sense of “malign opulence.” He says, &l... Read more »| 26 May 2015 -
Live Music
Pity Sex @ Bloc+, Glasgow, 21 May
Cymbal bags and guitar cases strewn about at the audience’s feet, the setup at Bloc’s 12th REPEATER event has all the messy homespun ambience of ... Read more »| 25 May 2015 -
Reviews
The Acorn – Vieux Loop
Despite summer being just around the corner, the fourth album from Canada's polite acoustic rockers The Acorn is apt music for hibernating to. All gentle bru... Read more »| 25 May 2015 -
Interviews
From Russia with Love: Happy Meals interviewed
Scottish Album of the Year nominated duo Suzanne Rodden and Lewis Cook, aka Happy Meals, look beyond their roots with their brand of minimalist European disco. It's already proved a hit in Moscow. Now it's the turn of Supersonic festival Read more »| 25 May 2015