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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ReviewsCatfish And The Bottlemen – The Balcony
Alright, who forgot to fill in the landfill? Evidently news of indie’s death has yet to reach Llandudno’s shores, where woefully-named quartet Ca... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
Live MusicNorthwest Gig Highlights – September 2014
In Liverpool the sound in Camp & Furnace will be loud and heady for the return of Psych Fest, while Manchester hosts the likes of the superb Honeyblood and First Aid Kit Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
Live MusicSt. Vincent / Arc Iris @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 26 August
Both musically and visually, Arc Iris are a colourful affair. Catsuited and rainbow-eyed, former Low Anthem member Jocie Adams delivers her baroque compositi... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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Ital – Endgame
People were only just about getting to grips with Ital’s matrix-weaving series of EPs when he dropped his debut full-length for Planet Mu in 2012, a ma... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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Death From Above 1979 – The Physical World
Trainwreck 1979, the lead single that ended Death From Above’s ten year recording hiatus last month, was almost custom built to engineer well-worn revi... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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MILK: PAWS / Lady North @ Electric Circus, 24 August
“This one’s by Britney Spears,” deadpans the mischievous Scott Bullen, before launching into a twisted, demonic rendition of Toxic, distort... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014
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Scottish Gig Highlights – September 2014
September doesn't have to be a bleak void that spans from post-festival comedowns though to premature Christmas shopping. Despair not – artists far and... Read more »| 29 Aug 2014 -
InterviewsBack in Black: Interpol's Daniel Kessler introduces El Pintor
With his band about to release fifth album El Pintor – their first since the departure of talismanic bass player Carlos Dengler – Daniel Kessler tells us why Interpol's muse is on the rise Read more »| 29 Aug 2014 -
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O2 Love Music Column – September 2014
Super Furry Animals frontman and Neon Neon instigator Gruff Rhys will be performing much of American Interior at the O2 Academy on Friday 5 Sep, the album co... Read more »| 29 Aug 2014 -
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Alt-J – This Is All Yours
Leeds quirk-rockers Alt-J must somehow follow 2012’s Mercury Prize-winning debut An Awesome Wave. But far from any rested-upon laurels, This Is All You... Read more »| 28 Aug 2014 -
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Pere 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 -
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Simian 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 -
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Robert 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 -
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Spider 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