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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ReviewsThe Fighting Cocks - Music for Lapdancers
Remember the end of Blazing Saddles? When the big cowboy punch-up finale spills over into the studio next door where a load of tap-dancing top hatters join i... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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The Charlatans - You Cross My Path
The Charlatans, along with the Manics and Oases of this world, are a band content to plough the same musical furrow ad infinitum. And while perseverance shou... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Subtle - ExitingARM
The best thing about Subtle's 2005 thriller For Hero:For Fool was that it was anything but their name: it was explosive and agile, and despite the density of... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Stapleton - Rest and Be Thankful
“All good things must come to an end,” laments Stapleton’s Al Paxton on Absent Friends, apparently prepared to ride the cliché. Havi... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Shooting At Unarmed Men - Triptych
That the harrowing opening few seconds of Triptych threaten to carbon copy Mclusky is unlikely to be accidental; singer Jon Chapple was behind the Welsh nois... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Scott Kelly - The Wake
Taking fellow Neurosis member Steve Von Till’s lead, Scott Kelly deconstructs his day job’s collapsing (new) buildings sound down to just voice a... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008
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Pendulum - In Silico
When your debut album brings drum ‘n’ bass to the indie kids and suffers the inevitable purist backlash it can become difficult to maintain your ... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
ReviewsOrkestra del Sol - The Moveable Feast
These Spiegeltent favourites and brass titans finally unveil their second full length album and anyone to have experienced their raucous live shows will deli... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
ReviewsGrey Daturas - Return to Disruption
Taking an aesthetic cue from amp shredding moments of chaos and the creeping screeching strings of Italian giallo films, Grey Daturas are a behemothic beast.... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
ReviewsDrive By Argument - Drive-By Argument
Ayr's Drive By Argument promise to "make you shit your pants". If you don’t, they offer a complimentary laxative. It takes a special band to propose th... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Boris - Smile
Not wanting to be labeled as a racial profiler, I have previously pondered many times in these pages about why Japan does actually, factually have the best b... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Birds Of Avalon - Bazaar, Bazaar
This album is a brilliant example of how to bring classic rock influences into the 21st century. This is despite - or perhaps because of - Birds Of Avalon&rs... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Beehoover - Heavy Zooo
First off, this is quite some noise for a two-piece. Definitely at their best when summoning enormous riffs from the ether, Beehoover have managed to deliver... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Asva - What You Don't Know is Frontier
One of the more permissible travesties of modern music is the acceptance of ultra-grim necro black metal into the pretentious art types' embrace. It's not re... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Adem - Takes
Adem is no dying legend, ageing rockstar, nor crooning lounge lizard, yet he still survives the release of this covers album with his reputation not only int... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008