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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ReviewsEverything Everything – Arc
Everything Everything's mission statement is to make pop music that sounds like no one else – a mantra the Manchester-based band have regularly tr... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013 -
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Plantman – Whispering Trees
Close your eyes during Plantman’s debut album and you’ll be transported back to an era of pre-Britpop Indie. Given Matt Randall’s (AKA Plan... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013 -
ReviewsFalty DL – Hardcourage
New York's Drew Lustman, aka Falty DL, likes to mess with people's expectations. Influenced by house, garage, RnB and future bass, he never settles on one st... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013 -
ReviewsToro Y Moi – Anything in Return
The third LP from Chaz Bundick sees the producer’s lush, pop-oriented blend of house and hip-hop take a bold stride towards the mainstream, without s... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
Interviews
Miaoux Miaoux tackles January's singles pile
Requesting we keep the identities of the artists secret (“I’m going to try and guess”), Julian Corrie aka Miaoux Miaoux slips on his critic’s hat. “This reviewing gets harder as you go along,” he laughs. “I’m feeling my brain starting to melt a little..." Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
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The Pictish Trail – Secret Soundz Vol. 2
Many artists develop signature sounds; rarer is the musician who accrues several. Johnny Lynch is one of the few to do so successfully, with a palette as d... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013
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L. Pierre – The Island Come True
Aidan Moffat’s fourth LP as L. Pierre is perhaps the most boldly ambitious and abstract yet: eschewing the electronica which supplemented the field r... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
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Yo La Tengo – Fade
It must be a relief to indie obscurists and what few record shop assistants remain that Hoboken trio Yo La Tengo have remained so prolific and consistent ove... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
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Lazy Habits – Lazy Habits
Lazy Habits are one of those bands that don't need radio play, press coverage or internet hype to build their career – which isn't to say that their su... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
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Your Move, Raincloud – This is What's Left Over From Nothing That's Happened
Your Move, Raincloud – the project of 28-year-old Samuel Francis Cain – practise a kind of fragile, wilfully sentimental indie, which aims at th... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
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Pere Ubu – Lady From Shanghai
Few bands can claim the sort of hard-earned respect accorded to Pere Ubu. The Fall are one example that spring to mind; and as with that outfit, a new LP f... Read more »| 02 Jan 2013 -
Live MusicLive Music Highlights – January 2013
In a busy start to your crisp new gig calendar; Dinosaur Jr, Young Fathers, United Fruit and The Computers are just a few to scribble under January 2013 Read more »| 01 Jan 2013 -
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O2 Love Music Column – January 2013
Having survived the twin assaults of the Mayan apocalypse (that’s the last time we’ll mention it, honest) and the rather more realistic threat of... Read more »| 01 Jan 2013 -
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The Metal Column – January 2012
If you're reading this, you made it. Looks like those Mayans were wrong, eh, droogs? Well, what did you expect? Those losers didn't even have the power of th... Read more »| 01 Jan 2013 -
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The Twilight Sad / We Were Promised Jetpacks / Holy Mountain @ Barrowland, 15 December
Without any sort of warning or restraint, Glasgow's Holy Mountain unflinchingly whip out the anvil-heavy speed-riffs to a partially bewildered audience. De... Read more »| 19 Dec 2012