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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ReviewsAlpha Male Tea Party – Real Ales & Model Rail: A Lonely Man's Guide to Not Committing Suicide EP
Applying choppy time signatures to millennial Britrock in the Hell Is for Heroes/Hundred Reasons vein, Alpha Male Tea Party satisfyingly expand upon the raw ... Read more »| 14 Aug 2013 -
ReviewsMONEY – The Shadow of Heaven
Exploring The Shadow of Heaven is like walking around a cold, cavernous, stately mansion. The ecclesiastical architecture gives space for the track... Read more »| 13 Aug 2013 -
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Georges Vert – An Electric Mind
Having started his musical life as a transposer of classical scores, before a sudden, ephiphanic swerve into synth composition, France’s Georges Vert h... Read more »| 13 Aug 2013 -
ReviewsThe Bug – Filthy EP
Kevin Martin aka The Bug returns with a 4-track teaser for the forthcoming album Angels & Devils. He's still emperor of the territory where tough dub sou... Read more »| 09 Aug 2013 -
Live Music
Scott & Charlene's Wedding @ The Shipping Forecast, 7 Aug
“Hope you know that I got no bitterness,” sings Craig Dermody during one of tonight’s rare tender moments. It’s difficult not to hear... Read more »| 08 Aug 2013 -
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Franz Ferdinand – Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
Alex Kapranos has talked of how Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action comes from "the idea of the cynic's search for optimism.” It’s a compel... Read more »| 08 Aug 2013
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Adrian Corker – Raise
Flecked with crackles, creaks, taps and clicks, Raise is an evocative listen filled with enriching experimental asides – from the analogue tape manipul... Read more »| 08 Aug 2013 -
InterviewsThe Democratic Circus: Art pop dreamteam David Byrne and St Vincent discuss their ongoing collaboration
We catch up with the art pop dreamteam of David Byrne and St. Vincent to discuss collaborations, Creationism and the art of cycling while on tour, prior to their imminent visit to these shores later this month Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
Interviews
In the Loop: Julianna Barwick reveals Nepenthe
Her acclaimed second album The Magic Place made Julianna Barwick's haunting, looped vocals the go-to comfort for long, lonely summer nights. She returns this month with the lighter but no less beguiling Nepenthe Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
ReviewsShigeto – No Better Time Than Now
Japanese-American producer Shigeto, aka Zachary Saginaw, has a lot in common with the Brainfeeder stable of beat-makers – his productions are mercurial... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
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Forest Swords – Engravings
From its opening notes, Forest Swords' debut album – after 2010's well-received mini, Dagger Paths – is an understated and hauntingly beautiful e... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
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Julianna Barwick – Nepenthe
Nepenthe was an antiquated potion of forgetfulness (literally, “anti-sorrow”), and this second album from ethereal songstress Julianna Barwi... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
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Charlie Jones – Love Form
There’s no denying Charlie Jones’ compositional abilities, musicianship, or technical nous. In his virtuosic playing, complex structuring, and ob... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
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Laura Veirs – Warp and Theft
Laura Veirs’ ninth studio album is an atmospheric, country-inflected journey, forged from tales of bad men, jazz musicians, and the sights and sounds o... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
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No Age – An Object
Los Angeles based duo No Age’s previous albums explored the boundaries between noise, punk and melodic indie-rock, with frequent beatific results. Thei... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013