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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ReviewsRaleigh Moncrief – Watered Lawn
Sacramento’s Raleigh Moncrief has been chiefly known, until now, for his production work – particularly on the Dirty Projectors’ 2009 opus ... Read more »| 28 Nov 2011 -
Live Music
Hot Ticket of the Month: A Phestive Phantomime @ Stereo, 16+17 Dec
In case you hadn’t heard, The Phantom Band have good taste and ambition in spades and this month they threaten to outdo themselves with the unveiling o... Read more »| 28 Nov 2011 -
Live MusicLive Music Highlights – December 2011
The month kicks off with a blistering double-bill courtesy of Nigerien psych-rock/drone-funk rebels Group Inerane and the incredible Flower/Corsano duo. Grou... Read more »| 28 Nov 2011 -
ReviewsBill Wells – Lemondale
Following his collaboration with Maher Shalal Hash Baz on 2009’s GOK, Bill Wells returned to Japan to record Lemondale, corralling an impressive array ... Read more »| 28 Nov 2011 -
ReviewsDead Boy Robotics – Dead Boy Robotics
Spitting with dark, expansive electro fervour right from the start, this self-titled debut album from Edinburgh trio Dead Boy Robotics is nothing if not ambi... Read more »| 28 Nov 2011 -
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Zomby – Nothing EP
Nothing is a rather perverse collector's item: a slightly underwhelming Zomby record. Although billed as a breakbeat-assisted companion piece to Dedication, ... Read more »| 28 Nov 2011
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Lil Daggers – Lil Daggers
Imagine finding an old wireless; winding it up, and turning it on to discover that it’s still tuned to an old forgotten AM station constantly broadcast... Read more »| 28 Nov 2011 -
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Max Cooper - Amalgamations EP
These two extended tracks draw variously upon orchestral and electronic sounds as Max Cooper blends patterns and rhythms which exhibit his mathematical appro... Read more »| 28 Nov 2011 -
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Korn – The Path of Totality
Jon Davis: “They (our fans) don’t really understand dubstep but then they relate to it because it’s heavy and dark but not techno. They&rsq... Read more »| 25 Nov 2011 -
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Dimlite – Grimm Reality
If you'll forgive the transgression of a time-honoured proverb, the cover of Grimm Reality offers a useful shorthand to the maelstrom of ideas orbiting Dimli... Read more »| 25 Nov 2011 -
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Red Horses of the Snow – Territories
A prevailing sense of nostalgia dominates Territories, the debut from artist/musician Chris Hawtin and producer Mark Burgess’ collaboration as Red Hors... Read more »| 24 Nov 2011 -
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Smackvan – Sound in Space
As Passkeepers in the early 1990s, and more recently as Smackvan, Michael Feeney, Owen McAulay and Gerry Elliot (along with various others, at different poin... Read more »| 24 Nov 2011 -
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The Fnords – Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Fnords
This Edinburgh three-piece sound, at times, almost uncannily like Thee Headcoatees: snarling dual-female vocals are laid over super-trebly guitar, skulking b... Read more »| 22 Nov 2011 -
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The Birthday Suit – The Eleventh Hour
Anyone who has listened to a Scottish indie record in the past decade will be able to join the dots between The Birthday Suit and their notable heritage. For... Read more »| 22 Nov 2011 -
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Various – New Heavy Sounds Volume 2
New Heavy Sounds does exactly what it says on the tin. The second in a series of compilations produced by a Londonian imprint of the same name, it contains 1... Read more »| 22 Nov 2011