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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ReviewsPiss Vortex – Piss Vortex
Rock journo problems: sometimes the adjectives you planned to use to review a metal band are already laid out perfectly neatly in the press release. Brutal? ... Read more »| 31 Oct 2014 -
ReviewsBloodbath – Grand Morbid Funeral
It starts with the longest scream in history. That's your man, Nick Holmes. By name alone he might sound like an estate agent who once spammed you on LinkedI... Read more »| 31 Oct 2014 -
Live Music
The Antlers, The Kazimier, Liverpool, 28 October
“I lost my voice yesterday,” apologises Peter Silberman, trying to make us all understand that his shots at the high notes may fall somewhat flat... Read more »| 31 Oct 2014 -
Live MusicNils Frahm @ RNCM, 28 October
In the dappled dark, Nils Frahm takes one sock-footed step towards the brink of the stage; picks up a microphone, and speaks. His intake of breath could be t... Read more »| 31 Oct 2014 -
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Blueneck – King Nine
The fifth album from this Somerset post-rock outfit is a predictably expansive but surprisingly accessible set. That particular label, however, is starting t... Read more »| 31 Oct 2014 -
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Hookworms – The Hum
Surely an ironic title – for all the persistent drones of Hookworms’ second album, there’s nothing as soft or dull as an actual hum. For al... Read more »| 31 Oct 2014
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Live Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – November 2014
November’s an odd one, isn’t it? If it weren’t for the unrelenting omnipresence of pumpkin spice permeating every facet of your existence, ... Read more »| 31 Oct 2014 -
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Adrian Crowley – Some Blue Morning
The world through the eyes of Adrian Crowley is a wonderful, textural place. His deep, sonorous voice seems at first almost portentous, but carries a quiet a... Read more »| 31 Oct 2014 -
ReviewsOrmonde – Cartographer/Explorer
Defiantly minimalist and daringly under-dramatised, Cartographer/Explorer is the second album from the magnetic pairing of Anna-Lynne Williams and Robert Gom... Read more »| 30 Oct 2014 -
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Arca – Xen
Having spent two years as hip-hop’s secret weapon, Arca’s leap into the spotlight showcases the auteur at his most sensual. Xen, named after Arca... Read more »| 30 Oct 2014 -
ReviewsThe Wands – The Dawn
Danish wise guys who know the difference between drone and droning on. While the rest of this psych generation seem content to thrash away at single chords f... Read more »| 30 Oct 2014 -
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Alex G – DSU
Most of what goes on in student halls is best left unknown. But over at Temple State, Philadelphia, behind one particular dorm door, a 21-year-old by the nam... Read more »| 30 Oct 2014 -
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Dean Blunt – Black Metal
Preparing yourself for the unexpected from Dean Blunt is almost a given, and Black Metal is yet again another fascinating sidestep. Despite previous intimati... Read more »| 30 Oct 2014 -
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Deptford Goth – Songs
There’s life after Life After Defo: Deptford Goth returns with sophomore album Songs and it’s a much more, er, lively affair. Behi... Read more »| 30 Oct 2014 -
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Deerhoof – La Isla Bonita
Fifteen seconds into the scuffed R‘n’B of Paradise Girls, you might be forgiven for assuming you’ve got the gist of Deerhoof’s 13th a... Read more »| 30 Oct 2014