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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ReviewsLe Reno Amps – Appetite
Amongst the more perplexing criticisms to crop up in reviews is ‘X is not life-changing’. How much personal tumult does a listener actually crave... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
Live Music
Live Music Highlights – April 2011
Attention youths! Emotional guitar rock this way comes courtesy of Aberdeen (via Brighton) three-piece The X-certs. A solid rhythm section, battle-tested alt... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
Live MusicThe Metal Column – April 2011
As we slink into April, rolling news coverage continues to resemble about a dozen simultaneous disaster movies. Whilst continuing to be pummelled unmercifull... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
Live MusicJosh T. Pearson @ Stereo, 26 March
For a man who has just released one of the saddest records in recent memory, Last of the Country Gentlemen, Josh. T Pearson takes to the stage with remarkabl... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
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Orkestra Del Sol – Lung Capacity
There are two ways of setting about summing up Lung Capacity, the latest album from Edinburgh’s brass-steppers extraordinaire. The first would be to fo... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
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Hauschka – Salon des Amateurs
Salon des Amateurs is the latest in a growing collection of releases by risk-taking Düsseldorf-based composer Volker Bertelmann, alias Hauschka – ... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011
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OvO – Cor Cordium
Drifting in the limbo between the percussive sludge of Jucifer and the surreal assault of Fantômas is OvO, an Italian duo who have been conducting audi... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
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Kode9 & The Spaceape – Black Sun
Hyperdub has always been the most experimental and forward-thinking of dubstep labels, and the panache with which Kode9 and Spaceape reinvented and deconstru... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
ReviewsStranded Horse – Humbling Tides
Yann Tambour – formerly Thee Stranded Horse, now Thee-less – writes and performs on a miniature kora, a kind of African harp/guitar. Throughout H... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
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Panda Bear – Tomboy
Bringing an aural sharpness in contrast to the kaleidoscopic, woozy swirl of 2007’s Person Pitch, Tomboy finds Noah Lennox further straddling the exper... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
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Trembling Bells – The Constant Pageant
While Alex Neilson may be the driving force behind the band, it’s still inevitable that the most arresting thing about any new Trembling Bells album wi... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
Live Music
Deerhunter @ Òran Mór, 28 March
Deerhunter are riding the crest of a wave that hasn't let up since 2005's Cryptograms, both critically and in relative commercial terms. After a quiet start ... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
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Deadboy – HERE (NMBRS15)
Numbers have had a relentless amount of quality releases in the past 12 months, with Deadboy’s Here EP being no exception. Having provided the label wi... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
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Fight Like Apes – The Body Of Christ And The Legs Of Tina Turner
From the record title alone it’s clear that Ireland’s Fight Like Apes haven’t toned the weirdness down any for their Andy Gill produced sec... Read more »| 29 Mar 2011 -
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Alexander – Alexander
Branching away from his ten-strong Bohemian clan known as the Magnetic Zeros, the debut solo undertaking from Alexander Ebert is an intimate stripped-down af... Read more »| 29 Mar 2011