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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ReviewsKat Vipers - Summer Bloody Time
evolving the piano from a sedate accompaniment to a jagged, raging lead instrument Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
ReviewsJohann Johannsson - IBM 1401, a User's Manual
It is actually the interpretation of the electromagnetic waves emitted by this archaic IBM when placed beside a radio transmitter... Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
ReviewsBeirut - Gulag Orkestar
With the world intent on imploding, the haven of Beirut seems the most comforting place to be. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Halfway - Remember The River
Meanders along quite calmly - there's barely a ripple, let alone a wave, to trouble your stream of consciousness. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Broadcast - The Future Crayon
Versatile to the point of almost breaking Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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The Black Keys - Your Touch
The baddest and best it's sounded since Cream Read more »| 12 Nov 2006
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RedCarsGoFaster - 24 Passes / House of Flies
24 Passes is never far away from Joy Division's Glass, jazzed up with a little rock-disco. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Johann Johannsson - The Sun's Gone Dim and the Sky's Turned Black
Delightful, and a perfect example of fusing classical music with avant-electronics.
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ReviewsThe Drones - Gala Mill
Good haunting dust bowl rock for those days spent sitting on a log swigging whiskey and drinking beans out of the can.
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The Aquarium - The Aquarium
It's nice to hear a band who are arty without being po-faced about it.
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Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red Sun
Swelling, never ending guitar crescendos and trance inducing war drums. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Dead Meadow - Dead Meadow
Every party needs a hallucinatory hippy album to finish things off mellow, and Dead Meadow might be just the come-down. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Cortez - Too Orangey For Crows
Though perhaps not earth-shifting, 'Too Orangey For Crows' is too good for anonymity. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - So Divided
All that's missing is a poetic ramble about Texas radio and the big beat. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Mogwai - Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait OST
On record it sounds no less haunting Read more »| 12 Nov 2006