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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Live MusicParquet Courts @ The Kazimier, Liverpool, 22 June
Baiting the public: sometimes it’s the only sensible thing to do. OK, Parquet Courts’ rickety racket isn’t exactly disappointing The Kazimi... Read more »| 25 Jun 2014 -
Reviews
Tut Vu Vu – Slow Sound Horn EP
Footsteps on a wooden floor. Then a drifting backbeat leads into schizoid trumpet and a decidedly unsettling organ motif. Suddenly, ‘Gallic psyche noir... Read more »| 25 Jun 2014 -
Reviews
Bright Light Bright Light – Life Is Easy
Rod Thomas has feelings, and he wants you to know about them. Over a backdrop of super-polished disco beats, he implores us earnestly to know how it feels to... Read more »| 24 Jun 2014 -
ReviewsSecret Cities – Walk Me Home
The North Dakota trio’s likeable third album purloins in the best possible way: artfully. Bad Trip pits Marie Parker’s reedy vocals against a bac... Read more »| 23 Jun 2014 -
NewsYoung Fathers win Scottish Album of the Year Award
Edinburgh hip-hop experimentalists Young Fathers were chosen ahead of Boards Of Canada, Chvrches and Edwyn Collins at the Glasgow Barrowlands ceremony Read more »| 20 Jun 2014 -
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Young British Artists – Change by Any Other Name
Get ready to fall, and fall hard. After so many false starts in the town this past couple of years, Young British Artists are a Manchester band who mould her... Read more »| 19 Jun 2014
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Festivals
Body & Soul Festival, Ballinlough Castle, Westmeath, Ireland, 20-22 June
Find me a man who hasn’t fallen head over heels for Hopkins’ stellar Immunity album from last year and I’ll find him a hefty boot in the hole. Read more »| 19 Jun 2014 -
Reviews
Dalhous – Will To Be Well
A wordless ambient concept album about pioneering Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing might sound like too conceptual a proposition for some electronica fans, b... Read more »| 19 Jun 2014 -
Live MusicYoung British Artists @ First Chop Brewing Arm, Salford, 14 June
Of all the dates most bands would choose their debut album launch to fall on, the night of England’s first World Cup game would probably not be one of ... Read more »| 18 Jun 2014 -
Reviews
Plank – Hivemind
Manchester's Plank play with Krautrock in a slightly more groove-based way than fellow motorik warriors BEAK>, delivering a head-nodding collection of mat... Read more »| 18 Jun 2014 -
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Fhloston Paradigm – The Phoenix
Philadelphian producer King Britt returns to his science fiction-inspired Fhloston Paradigm project, which sees him switching from the soulful techno of his ... Read more »| 18 Jun 2014 -
Reviews
Sole & DJ Pain 1 – Death Drive
Over beats by DJ Pain 1, America's most fiercely independent rapper is on fiery form, expressing contempt for contemporary hip-hop's avaricious, money-grabbi... Read more »| 18 Jun 2014 -
Live Music
Fucked Up / Lower @ Gorilla, Manchester, 15 June
The tension: it’s bound up in every single one of Anton Rothstein’s rippling, complex drum patterns. Why settle for a standard punk rock beat whe... Read more »| 17 Jun 2014 -
Reviews
Moebius Story Leidecker – Snowghost Pieces
The new album by Cluster co-founder Dieter Moebius in collaboration with American composers and electronic producers Tim Story and Jon Leidecker (Negati... Read more »| 17 Jun 2014 -
Live Music
Demdike Stare / Nate Young @ The Art School, 14 June
There’s a point in Wolf Eyes alum Nate Young’s set where he seems satisfied with the unearthly, feedback-drenched howls of static and the rumblin... Read more »| 17 Jun 2014