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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ReviewsAutolux – Pussy's Dead
A few weeks before their third record, Pussy’s Dead, was due to hit the shelves, Autolux settled in for a Reddit AMA: “If NASA offered you the op... Read more »| 01 Apr 2016 -
Live Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – April 2016
Kaleidoscopic creatives Animal Collective, raucous rockers Ought and sensitive souls Money are among our gig picks this month Read more »| 01 Apr 2016 -
ReviewsThe Last Shadow Puppets – Everything You've Come To Expect
There is no lift-off: we're only aware that we've been flying. The sound that opens Everything You've Come To Expect, the long-demanded follow-up to The Last... Read more »| 01 Apr 2016 -
ReviewsExplosions in the Sky – The Wilderness
As with any Explosions in the Sky record, it’s difficult to arrive at the right words. The adjective palette feels curiously lacking, similes are out o... Read more »| 01 Apr 2016 -
Interviews
Frightened Rabbit on Painting Of A Panic Attack
Frightened Rabbit congregate at Glasgow’s Art School for a secret show and a dress rehearsal of their fifth album, Painting of a Panic Attack Read more »| 31 Mar 2016 -
Live MusicScottish Gig Highlights – April 2016
Take no heed of the doom-mongers; taps aff season is just around the corner. Chris Cornell walks in right on cue Read more »| 31 Mar 2016
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Cate Le Bon – Crab Day
"A coalition of inescapable feelings and fabricated nonsense," reckons Cate Le Bon of her fourth album. Difficult to argue: Crab Day is a madcap wonder, and ... Read more »| 31 Mar 2016 -
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Tim Hecker – Love Streams
Montreal's ambient drone wunderkind returns with his eighth album, and first for 4AD. Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Reviews
Kowton – Utility
Utility may be a debut, but it certainly shows no signs of inexperience. This assured first release from Bristolian native Kowton (who first popped up with a... Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
ReviewsJohn Carpenter – Lost Themes II
There's always a strong sense of trepidation when it comes to approaching any sequel; difficult to supress the scepticism that it's not the usual indolent of... Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Interviews
Composer-Curator: Isabel Jones and Duncan Chapman
As part of new music charity Sound and Music's Composer-Curator programme, Isabel Jones and Duncan Chapman are touring White Cane – an explor... Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Live Music
The Duke Spirit @ Deaf Institute, 23 Mar
Four years since they last pitched up round here, no new material to promote, and for the first time in living memory touts ply their greasy wares outside De... Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Reviews
Colin Stetson – SORROW
Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 is a masterpiece of minimalism. It makes sense, then, that a fellow master of the minimal – avant-garde saxo... Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
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Parquet Courts – Human Performance
After last year’s wilfully difficult Monastic Living EP, you’d be forgiven for expecting Parquet Courts’ latest full-length album to take a... Read more »| 29 Mar 2016 -
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Frightened Rabbit – Painting of a Panic Attack
Give or take a month, it’s been ten years since Frightened Rabbit put out the first run of Sing the Greys on the tiny Hits the Fan label. It seems pert... Read more »| 29 Mar 2016