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 MusicHowling Bells / Cold Specks @ Òran Mór, 19 September
Canada's Cold Specks (****) is something of a pleasant surprise; 23-year-old singer Al Spx has one of those powerful old (but young) soul voices that can st... Read more »| 21 Sep 2011 -
ReviewsWe Were Promised Jetpacks – In the Pit of the Stomach
If you name your second album In The Pit Of The Stomach, anything less than gut-punching is going to disappoint. Opener Circles And Squares is a long way fro... Read more »| 21 Sep 2011 -
ReviewsBlueflint – Maudy Tree
Blueflint's debut album, High Bright Morning, was deservedly lauded for its assured rustic charm. Maudy Tree draws, like its predecessor, upon bluegrass and ... Read more »| 21 Sep 2011 -
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The John Knox Sex Club – Raise Ravens
At a mere six tracks long, this second album from Glasgow’s John Knox Sex Club packs its weight within its densely layered, yet loose recordings. Compa... Read more »| 20 Sep 2011 -
Interviews
Saluting Nevermind
A cursory glance at almost any “top albums” list of the last twenty years will almost always involve one familiar shot of a baby swimming after a dollar bill Read more »| 20 Sep 2011 -
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Dum Dum Girls – Only In Dreams
On their second outing, Los Angeles’ Dum Dum Girls absorb themselves with a clutch of more mature concerns than evidenced by their no-frills debut I Wi... Read more »| 19 Sep 2011
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InterviewsRemember Remember: Graeme Fears Satan
Before their glorious second album lands, Graeme Ronald explains the changing shape of Remember Remember and his obsession with the deil Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
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Roots Manuva – 4everevolution
A Rodney Hylton Smith full-length usually comes with a guarantee of three things – rhymes that vary from the profound to the inexplicable, a hefty dose... Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
ReviewsTeletextile – Glass
It’s difficult to fault Pamela Martinez’s Brooklyn-based Teletextile project in terms of craftsmanship. The songs here are stitched together from... Read more »| 16 Sep 2011 -
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Obake – Obake
In Japanese folklore, an obake can either be a ghost or a shapeshifter, but no matter what definition you choose to adopt it’s an apt moniker for this ... Read more »| 16 Sep 2011 -
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Pombagira - Iconoclast Dream
Way back in ’96, San Jose stoners Sleep recorded an album by the name of Dopesmoker and, while they weren’t too pleased with the label run-around... Read more »| 16 Sep 2011 -
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Roll the Dice – In Dust
This Stockholm-based analogue synth duo, comprised of Malcolm Pardon and Fever Ray's Peder Mannerfelt, use their second LP to explore the same kinds of unash... Read more »| 16 Sep 2011 -
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Silver Seas – Chateau Revenge
The third LP from Nashville's Silver Seas sees them further honing their brand of melancholy, country-inflected jangle-pop. It's deeply nostalgic music, but ... Read more »| 16 Sep 2011 -
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Evangelista – In Animal Tongue
Many of Constellation’s flagship acts – GYBE in particular – peddle an overwrought apocalypticism that has come to feel increasingly tired ... Read more »| 16 Sep 2011 -
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Mikal Cronin – Mikal Cronin
While perhaps better known for his collaborations with Ty Segall (who handles production duties here), Mikal Cronin uses his first solo venture both as a cha... Read more »| 16 Sep 2011