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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ReviewsHamilton Leithauser – Black Hours
With The Walkmen currently on an “extreme hiatus,” frontman Hamilton Leithauser strikes out alone with solo debut Black Hours. Well, not entirely... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
ReviewsThe Acid – Liminal
Eleven kinds of loneliness, wrote Yates; here’s eleven tracks of it. Appropriately named threesome The Acid (Ry X, Steve Nalepa, and Adam Freeland) ser... Read more »| 26 May 2014 -
ReviewsEmma Ruth Rundle – Some Heavy Ocean
In a similar vein to label-mate Chelsea Wolfe, there's a certain desolation and sparseness to Emma Ruth Rundle's sound that's both mysterious and alluring. T... Read more »| 26 May 2014 -
ReviewsJerry David DeCicca – Understanding Land
The Black Swans are no more, their fifth and final album, 2012’s Occasion For Song, a frank meditation on the loss of band member Noel Sayre. Sayre was... Read more »| 26 May 2014 -
Reviews
The Hazey Janes – Language of Faint Theory
For their fourth album, Dundee’s The Hazey Janes returned to El Puerto De Santa Maria – the small Andalusian city where they’d recorded deb... Read more »| 26 May 2014 -
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Sleep Party People – Floating
Somnambulant dreampop project Sleep Party People is the tincture of one Brian Batz, a rabbit-masked Dane with a knack for crafting layered, shoegaze lullabye... Read more »| 26 May 2014
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Reviews
Fis – Iterations EP
New Zealand producer Fis moves even further away from the drum and bass genre that birthed him - since he signed to Tri-Angle, he has been exploring far stranger sonic realms Read more »| 24 May 2014 -
Reviews
Hamell On Trial – The Happiest Man In The World
Difficult to know what to make of Ed Hamell. He’s an intelligent and articulate singer-songwriter, at something of a rarely-considered midpoint between... Read more »| 24 May 2014 -
Videos
Ten Rapid: latest videos from Trans Am, Yann Tiersen, The Knife, Little Comets and more
The soundtrack to your week from The Skinny, also featuring Gazelle Twin being somehow scary and stylish at the same time, M.I.A. with guns, dancers and drones on the estate, plus Pink Floyd in space Read more »| 23 May 2014 -
Live Music
Swans / Jenny Hval @ Academy 2, Manchester, 22 May
As two musicians with backgrounds in confrontational art, Michael Gira and Jenny Hval aren’t afraid to tackle the grubby desires of the body. Gira&rsqu... Read more »| 23 May 2014 -
Live Music
Trust @ Sneaky Pete's, 18 May
Air, when compressed, gets hotter and harder to contain. The same could be said for Toronto trio TRUST and their Sunday night crowd at Sneaky Pete’s. F... Read more »| 21 May 2014 -
Videos
Music Video Premiere: Algernon Doll – Suicide
Watch the official video for Suicide, the new single from rising troubadour Algernon Doll, AKA Ewan Grant. Here Grant's project is captured in full band mode... Read more »| 21 May 2014 -
Live Music
Speedy Ortiz @ The Shipping Forecast, Liverpool, 19 May
Looking for tonight’s watchword? Let’s go with LOUD. Speedy Ortiz are a beautifully complex tangle of interloping guitar freakouts, head-wrecking... Read more »| 21 May 2014 -
Interviews
Return of the Black Sun: Robert Hampson on reprising Loop
After a twenty-four year hiatus, Loop shocked fans with a sudden announcement of a reformation in 2013. About to play these shores on a co-headline tour with Godflesh, frontman Robert Hampson speaks to us about his absence and his return Read more »| 20 May 2014 -
Interviews
A New Beat: Liverpool's Låpsley in profile
A rising talent on Liverpool’s music scene, last month Låpsley (aka Holly Lapsley Fletcher) became the inaugural winner of the GIT Award’s One to Watch prize. We caught up with her at the ceremony Read more »| 19 May 2014