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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InterviewsGrizzly Bear's Daniel Rossen talks Shields' tricky genesis
Rossen explains why a desert retreat, self-imposed pressure, and scrapping an album's worth of material turned in to blessings in disguise for the Brooklyn quartet Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
InterviewsBat For Lashes' Natasha Khan talks new LP The Haunted Man
Bat for Lashes' third album sees Natasha Khan laying bare her voice, her soul and her body – she tells us how The Haunted Man expresses her new-found joy in life Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
ReviewsDog Is Dead – All Our Favourite Stories
Nottingham’s Dog is Dead have been all over this summer’s festival calendar, and with good reason. Debut LPAll Our Favourite Stories sounds ... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
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...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – Lost Songs
Coming with an overtly political manifesto, Trail of Dead’s eighth studio album Lost Songs fittingly stands as their most direct statement in some time... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
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Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind
With so much made of “tricky” second and third albums, not many platitudes exist to explain the challenge faced by those bands with the gumpt... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
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Rozi Plain – Joined Sometimes Unjoined
Where Rozi Plain’s debut Inside Over Here was pieced together from various home recordings, the creation of Joined Sometimes Unjoined involved a full b... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012
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Lukid – Lonely at the Top
Although previous Lukid records have always been beautifully complex and intricate, they have also been fairly easy to place within contemporary electroni... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
ReviewsThe Dirty Dozen – October 2012
Recovering at his Edinburgh home from a nasty chest infection, Dan ‘Withered Hand’ Willson dutifully bunkers down to the healing sounds of October’s single releases Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
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Hidden Orchestra: In Plain Sight
Joe Acheson talks to The Skinny about Hidden Orchestra's beautiful new album Archipelago, and the highlights of the Scottish urban music scene today Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
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Bat for Lashes – The Haunted Man
The biggest difference between The Haunted Man and 2009's Two Suns is in the presentation – gone are the intricate, ornate, quasi-mystical visual trapp... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
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WHY? – Mumps, etc.
Alopecia and Eskimo Snow saw WHY? distance themselves from the hip-hop template that defined their earlier albums as Yoni Wolf’s neurotic drawl playe... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
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PAWS – Cokefloat!
Recorded on a boat moored on the Thames, it's easy to imagine that this much-anticipated debut album from garage pop rockers PAWS could have sunk under the... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
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Gav Prentice – The Invisible Hand
You can appreciate why Over the Wall’s Gav Prentice felt the need to release these songs under his own name, as opposed to incorporating them into th... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
ReviewsErrors – New Relics
For a band whose last LP has largely come to be considered their most accomplished to date, it’s no wonder that Errors have, with this mini album relea... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
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We Are the Physics – Your Friend, The Atom
There's always been a touch of crazy to Scotland's most lauded musicians. Orange Juice were awash with art school exhibitionism; mid-career Primal Scream wer... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012