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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ReviewsBonobo – The North Borders
The fifth LP from Brighton’s Bonobo (aka Simon Green) opens in understated style, as Grey Reverend’s brooding vocals overlay the gently shimmerin... Read more »| 29 Mar 2013 -
ReviewsHomework – 13 Towers
Live, this Edinburgh-based electro-rock quartet have (in these pages) been compared to LCD Soundsystem, although on record that comparison somewhat overstate... Read more »| 29 Mar 2013 -
ReviewsLubomyr Melnyk – Corollaries
Complex, sparse and beguiling, the new album by celebrated avant garde neo-classical composer Lubomyr Melnyk is a delight from start to finish. Melnyk's tech... Read more »| 29 Mar 2013 -
Live MusicChurch of Noise – April 2013
You'd be surprised by the number of ways you can lose your hearing Read more »| 29 Mar 2013 -
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WALL – Shoestring EP
WALL made her debut last year with a cover of Karen Dalton's Something On Your Mind, a sparse, understated, synth-led number which showcased her subtle vocal... Read more »| 29 Mar 2013 -
Festivals
Salford Sonic Fusion Festival, University of Salford, 21-24 Mar
Following its debut in 2012, Salford Sonic Fusion Festival returns for a four day celebration of cutting-edge experimental composition and leading contempora... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013
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Life Coach – Alphawaves
Originally conceived as a solo outlet for Trans Am founder Phil Manley’s homage to late krautrock visionary Conny Plank, this second album as Life Coac... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013 -
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The Knife – Shaking the Habitual
Accompanied by a manifesto expressing distaste for the 'already imagined', siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer's first record as The Knife in s... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013 -
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Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats – Mind Control
Mt. Abraxis, the cinematic opener from Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats' second full-length, starts out with sorrowful guitar licks and steadily paced cymbal c... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013 -
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Louie – Lost On Hope Street
The front man of incendiary live hip-hop band Hector Bizerk steps out from the shadows with an intensely personal, viscerally political album of hip-hop trac... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013 -
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Wiley – The Ascent
Another Wiley album, another threat from perhaps the last surviving well-known grime rapper with any credibility left to retire – leaving us to the ten... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013 -
News
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 27 March
Black Sun split; Pussy Riot on 60 minutes; Björk joins Berlin Festival; plus new music from Mount Kimbie, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Hey Colossus Read more »| 27 Mar 2013 -
Live MusicFutureEverything @ Islington Mill, 20-23 Mar
At the festival launch, as we probe our amuse-bouches and survey the city from the eighth floor of NOMA53 – that beached blue alien just off Rochdale R... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013 -
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Vondelpark – Seabed
When you're stuck in the spaces in-between – on journeys home at uncomfortable dawns, in cold living rooms at the wrong end of the morning – you'... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013 -
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Kurt Vile – Wakin On a Pretty Daze
Album five brings with it a watershed moment in Kurt Vile’s career. Before even pressing play, the vivid colour saturation of the cover and extended tr... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013