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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ReviewsTokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell
There’s a line in the song Listen To The Math, from Tokyo Police Club’s exceptional debut album Elephant Shell, that goes some way to summing up ... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Thrice - The Alchemy Index Volumes III & IV: Earth and Air
As the title suggests, this record embodies the second half of a four EP opus undertaken by Thrice. The two halves on display are substantially different fro... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Things In Herds - Nothing Is Lost
Far-flung Fence alumni, Things In Herds (aka Pete Lush and, er, Miss Ping) find the electro variant of their folk-pop largely jettisoned on this, their fourt... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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The Ossians - The MacPherson Tapes
The story behind The MacPherson Tapes is a damn site more interesting than the music itself. This may sound callous, but when you consider The Ossians are in... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
ReviewsThe Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement
Side-projects: for the artist who just can't fit his talent/ego within one band. So we have Jack White letting his inner Led Zep fanboy roam free in The Raco... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
ReviewsThe Futureheads - This Is Not The World
It may seem exaggerated to call this a comeback, given that The Futureheads only crashed on to the scene with their self-titled debut some four years ago, bu... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008
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ReviewsThe Fighting Cocks - Music for Lapdancers
Remember the end of Blazing Saddles? When the big cowboy punch-up finale spills over into the studio next door where a load of tap-dancing top hatters join i... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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The Charlatans - You Cross My Path
The Charlatans, along with the Manics and Oases of this world, are a band content to plough the same musical furrow ad infinitum. And while perseverance shou... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Subtle - ExitingARM
The best thing about Subtle's 2005 thriller For Hero:For Fool was that it was anything but their name: it was explosive and agile, and despite the density of... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Stapleton - Rest and Be Thankful
“All good things must come to an end,” laments Stapleton’s Al Paxton on Absent Friends, apparently prepared to ride the cliché. Havi... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Shooting At Unarmed Men - Triptych
That the harrowing opening few seconds of Triptych threaten to carbon copy Mclusky is unlikely to be accidental; singer Jon Chapple was behind the Welsh nois... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Scott Kelly - The Wake
Taking fellow Neurosis member Steve Von Till’s lead, Scott Kelly deconstructs his day job’s collapsing (new) buildings sound down to just voice a... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
ReviewsPendulum - In Silico
When your debut album brings drum ‘n’ bass to the indie kids and suffers the inevitable purist backlash it can become difficult to maintain your ... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Orkestra del Sol - The Moveable Feast
These Spiegeltent favourites and brass titans finally unveil their second full length album and anyone to have experienced their raucous live shows will deli... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Grey Daturas - Return to Disruption
Taking an aesthetic cue from amp shredding moments of chaos and the creeping screeching strings of Italian giallo films, Grey Daturas are a behemothic beast.... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008