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 MusicSwans / Sir Richard Bishop @ The Arches, 16 November
Michael Gira's ambitions for this particular live incarnation of Swans are not modest: the set clocks in at around two hours and from the gentle opening &nda... Read more »| 21 Nov 2012 -
ReviewsScott Walker – Bish Bosch
Many felt that Scott Walker's curious investigation into the outer limits of contemporary songcraft had reached its ultimate culmination with his harrowing... Read more »| 21 Nov 2012 -
ReviewsFiona Soe Paing – Tower of Babel EP
Fiona Soe Paing's second solo EP is a tough-but-sensual slice of modern electronica. Filtered samples struggle for breath against a stark backdrop of synth... Read more »| 21 Nov 2012 -
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Gallops - Yours Sincerely, Dr. Hardcore
On their debut LP, Wrexham’s Gallops begin from an instrumental math-rock setup, before carrying their sound into more idiosyncratic territories. Like ... Read more »| 21 Nov 2012 -
News
NETVERK – November 2012
A look at the world of netaudio and netlabels,this month featuring dubstep, shoegaze, chillwave and hip-hop from Small Black, CoMa, The Mighty Cream, MAKO, Fluorescent Records, Tash Willmore and Mr Muthafuckin eXquire Read more »| 20 Nov 2012 -
ReviewsBreathless – Green to Blue
4AD founder Ivo Watts-Russell is a big fan of Breathless, mentoring their latest opus and describing bandleader Dominic Appleton as his favourite living male... Read more »| 20 Nov 2012
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Reviews
E.D. Sedgwick – We Wear White
Justin Moyer's (El Guapo, Antelope) E.D. Sedgwick project has undergone a number of makeovers, having changed from a duo to a solo act and now a fully fled... Read more »| 19 Nov 2012 -
ReviewsHow To Destroy Angels – An Omen EP
In contrast to the sublime industrial pop melodrama of HTDA's first EP, An Omen showcases a much more diverse and dynamic sound from the band, managing to ri... Read more »| 19 Nov 2012 -
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Christ. – Cathexis Motion Picture Soundtrack
It's extremely unfair that nearly every single mention of Scottish producer Christ. is prefaced with the fact that he is a former member of Boards of Canada.... Read more »| 19 Nov 2012 -
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Curt Crackarach – Lonely Holiday
The latest alias of lo-fi pioneer and veteran experimental producer Nattymari, the Curt Crackarach project sees Natty collaborating with a brace of vocalists... Read more »| 19 Nov 2012 -
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Soundgarden – King Animal
Back when heavy metal was hurtling towards new extremities in theatricality and brute force throughout the late 80s, Seattle quartet Soundgarden willing... Read more »| 18 Nov 2012 -
Live Music
Buck 65 / The Levee Strollers @ King Tut's, 11 November
Tonight's support act are a downhome (although Glaswegian) country and western band called The Levee Strollers. Their enthusiastic but wholly incongruous per... Read more »| 14 Nov 2012 -
Live Music
Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat / Rick Redbeard @ Cottiers, 7 November
After several years of performing solo with next-to-nowt to line his merch stand, Rick Anthony’s Rick Redbeard guise is picking up pace. Debut album Th... Read more »| 13 Nov 2012 -
Live Music
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti @ Stereo, 8 November
Ariel Pink has come a long way from making music in his bedroom. Hailed as a lo-fi pioneer and championed by the likes of Animal Collective, the Beverly Hi... Read more »| 13 Nov 2012 -
Reviews
Dizraeli & The Small Gods – Never Mind
Unlike Scroobius Pip, another artist who made the transition from hip-hop influenced poet to rapper with a record deal, Dizraeli's flow is based on literate,... Read more »| 13 Nov 2012