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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ReviewsDobie – We Will Not Harm You
Despite his reclusive nature, Anthony Campbell has built a devout following over the last couple of decades from admirers across the London dance underground... Read more »| 04 Feb 2013 -
ReviewsFly Agaric – In Search of Soma
This London-based jazz quartet, having worked over the years with contemporary luminaries including Oren Marshall and Mor Kabasi, have pooled their talent... Read more »| 04 Feb 2013 -
Interviews
United Fruit survey the February singles
We join post-hardcore champs United Fruit in their Glasgow rehearsal space as they take a break from demoing album number two to pan for pop hits. There will be dub... Read more »| 04 Feb 2013 -
Reviews
Wiht – The Harrowing of the North
Though they've now officially split up, singerless Leeds trio Wiht have finally unleashed this physical version of their first (and sadly last) offering, ... Read more »| 04 Feb 2013 -
Reviews
The Soft Hills – Chromatisms
A year since last album The Bird is Coming Down to Earth, Seattle’s The Soft Hills return sounding slightly less pastoral and a tad more cosmic, succ... Read more »| 04 Feb 2013 -
Reviews
Frightened Rabbit – Pedestrian Verse
Though divisive may be a strong word, 2010’s The Winter of Mixed Drinks certainly eked out differing opinions on the direction Frightened Rabbit were ... Read more »| 01 Feb 2013
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Reviews
Universal Sex Arena – Women Will Be Girls
Look beyond the sleazy triumvirate of band name, album title and cover art (a kitsch bunga bunga fantasy in pen and watercolour), and the debut album from ... Read more »| 01 Feb 2013 -
Reviews
Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – What the Brothers Sang
Last year, Dawn McCarthy and Will Oldham channelled their mutual passion for The Everly Brothers into a festive 7” containing a brace of cover versio... Read more »| 31 Jan 2013 -
Interviews
Death Becomes Them: Frightened Rabbit talk Pedestrian Verse
Frightened Rabbit look poised to take their emotional and anthemic sound to a wider audience with the release of Pedestrian Verse. We caught up with Scott, Grant and Gordon ahead of the impending tumult to talk life, death and the wisdom of Stereophonics Read more »| 31 Jan 2013 -
Reviews
Thao and the Get Down Stay Down – We the Common
On her third album as Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, Thao Nguyen’s nimble genre borrowings pay great dividends. There are touches of porch-front ... Read more »| 31 Jan 2013 -
Live Music
O2 Love Music Column – February 2013
Having pioneered many of the DJ techniques we take for granted to this day, Joseph Saddler, or Grandmaster Flash if you will, has assured his place in the hi... Read more »| 31 Jan 2013 -
Reviews
Godsticks – The Envisage Conundrum
The windy-yet-catchy songs laid to tape by Godsticks on their second full-length brings to mind like-minded outfits like Oceansize or Porcupine Tree, but s... Read more »| 31 Jan 2013 -
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Tristan Coleman – Still Life with Sound EP
This EP is Tristan Coleman’s debut release, but the Melbourne-based singer/composer/multi-instrumentalist already evinces an unusual breadth of visi... Read more »| 31 Jan 2013 -
Reviews
Fuzzy Lights – Rule of Twelfths
Rule of Twelfths refines an aesthetic nine years and three albums in the making, as Cambridgeshire quintet Fuzzy Lights tweak their pastoral-folk-meets-pos... Read more »| 31 Jan 2013 -
Live MusicThe Metal Column – February 2013
Now you've beaten those stinking January blues, it's time to get back in the circle-pit and lose your mind, droogs. For a kick off, you could either hit up ... Read more »| 31 Jan 2013