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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ReviewsKanye West – Yeezus
Already this year's most talked-about album, Kanye West's Yeezus came with a rash of promises and boasts from the rapper – as usual, he was going ... Read more »| 27 Jun 2013 -
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Fists – Phantasm
Phantasm won’t be lauded for its originality, channelling as it does a scrappy fuzz-pop sound that’s grown endlessly familiar: a garage-rock... Read more »| 27 Jun 2013 -
Live Music
Gig Highlights – July 2013
As festival madness descends, we present some picks from T in the Park, Wickerman and Kelburn Garden Party, plus very special gigs from Mogwai, Adam Stafford, Ghostpoet, My Jerusalem, Stefan Blomeier and many more Read more »| 27 Jun 2013 -
ReviewsThundercat – Apocalypse
A funky lovechild of Prince, Frank Zappa, Herbie Hancock and Flying Lotus (the latter incidentally co-produces this album), Thundercat, aka multi-instrumenta... Read more »| 27 Jun 2013 -
Live Music
O2 Love Music Column – July 2013
Aside from enigmatic front-man Billy Corgan, The Smashing Pumpkins are near unrecognisable as a line-up for those who first came to the band via th... Read more »| 27 Jun 2013 -
ReviewsDaughn Gibson – Me Moan
On All Hell, Daughn Gibson triple-filters country ballads through crackles, loops and warped samples, teasing out an atmospheric production closer to the lik... Read more »| 27 Jun 2013
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ReviewsBenin City – Fires in the Park
Like M.I.A.’s Kala or The Bug’s London Zoo, it’s hard to imagine Fires in the Park’s particular blend of global i... Read more »| 26 Jun 2013 -
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Adam Stafford – Imaginary Walls Collapse
This is an album that very nearly never saw the light of day; Adam Stafford, former Y’all Is Fantasy Island main man and a respected solo artist and fi... Read more »| 26 Jun 2013 -
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Bell X1 – Chop Chop
For their sixth album, Bell X1 shelve the Talking Heads-aping pop strut and glitchy electronics that flavoured predecessors Blue Lights on the Highway&n... Read more »| 26 Jun 2013 -
ReviewsSix. By Seven – Love and Peace and Sympathy
Following a brief spell in the limelight in the late 90s with their debut The Things We Make – a record which sat somewhere between Britpop&r... Read more »| 26 Jun 2013 -
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Strangers Family Band – Strangers Family Band
Back in 2010, Floridian psychedelic rock quartet Strangers Family Band promised their debut would be a sixteen track concept album in the Sgt Peppers/Vi... Read more »| 26 Jun 2013 -
Live Music
Africa Oyé @ Sefton Park, Liverpool, 22-23 Jun
After last year’s washout, Liverpool’s free, weekend-long celebration of all things African returned to Sefton Park at the end of June, with the ... Read more »| 25 Jun 2013 -
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Roedelius Schneider – Tiden
Between them, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Stefan Schneider have contributed significantly to the development of ambient music since the 70s: Roedelius through... Read more »| 25 Jun 2013 -
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Teho Teardo and Blixa Bargeld – Still Smiling
This collaboration between Einstürzende Neubauten’s Blixa Bargeld and Italian composer Teho Teardo reveals a strikingly symbiotic relationship bet... Read more »| 25 Jun 2013 -
Live Music
Daniel Bachman / Tom Settle / dbh @ The Castle Hotel, Manchester, 19 Jun
America is a big deal again these days. Every new restaurant seems to be a gourmet burger palace; we watch whatever HBO throws at us, and there has been, in ... Read more »| 25 Jun 2013