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The end of a short tour is a mixed blessing; or, as Andrew Falkous puts it, “very sweet but kind of fruity”. It’s saying goodbye to weeks o... Read more »

Billed as The Lips 'bleak, disturbing' record (with suitably ominous title to match), the reality is that this, their thirteenth studio album, whil... Read more »

From Josh Homme’s youth as a prodigious stoner rock visionary in Kyuss to the slick, guitar pop-skewing renaissance man we see at the helm of Queens to... Read more »

On 8 January, David Bowie’s 69th birthday, his 25th studio album Blackstar was released. Seemingly a cause for double celebration, certainly none of us... Read more »

Let’s see; there’s been remix duty, production duty, soundtrack duty… it’s fair to say that Ben Power doesn’t do procrastinati... Read more »

So that was our albums of the year and, while we doff our collective cap to those up top, the joy of such lists is always about making new discoveries, even ... Read more »

Death is a familiar character in Nick Cave’s songbook, but Skeleton Tree, his 16th studio album with The Bad Seeds, carries a particularly tragic spect... Read more »

• Steve Mason – Meet the Humans (Double Six) Steve Mason's third solo album under his own name finds the erstwhile Fifer embracing a fo... Read more »

2016: a year which swiped away our best-loved musical pioneers with horrifying ease; saw US police forces continue to take careful aim at black men and women... Read more »

Floating Points – Elaenia (Pluto) Sam Shepherd's debut LP as Floating Points arrives after five long years in the works, with its sound... Read more »

Adam Stafford – Taser Revelations (Song, by Toad) Taser Revelations promises shock and awe in its title, and delivers on the latter. Af... Read more »

2012 was the year that dance music and classic songwriting re-engaged – as evidenced by the move towards electronica by veterans such as Liars, as much... Read more »

#50: Daughter – Not to DisappearIf Daughter's debut had you label the London trio as de rigueur indie alt-folk, think again: Not&nb... Read more »

If suffering is indeed that which distinguishes the artist from the dilettante, then Claire Boucher is well on her way to greatness. Having subjected he... Read more »

Anna Meredith – Varmints (Moshi Moshi) When the vistas of pop and contemporary classical overlap the interaction tends to be on the former’s t... Read more »

“Things just aren’t as exciting as the 70s,” quipped the languid, long-haired Kurt Vile when chatting with The Skinny back in 2013. Jokes a... Read more »

Attack on Memory’s introductions came way back in November 2011, when lead single No Future/No Past prowled online to throw expectations askew. Just te... Read more »

Kavinsky's Nightcall was the seminal moment in Drive – soundtracking the opening credits, it became the film's signature track, and went on t... Read more »

This is Younghusband's sophomore effort after making a decent fist of updating the Mary Chain's apocalyptic 80s drone on their 2013 debut. In its own ri... Read more »

Punk is pessimistic; it languishes in its own brash, self-deprecating defeatism. It’s no surprise then that Toronto-based four-piece PUP named themselv... Read more »

Having garnered plaudits for the spacey electronics and sweet vocal mix of 2013’s The Way We Separate, Brooklyn duo Beacon return with a more complex t... Read more »

Given how much upheaval there’s been for the band in the six years since their last full-length, World Painted Blood, it’s surprising how much &n... Read more »

It features many of the expected lyrical themes – bitter infidelities, lust, STDs – but they surface in novel ways: Glasgow Jubilee sees Moffat r... Read more »

Another batch of blast furnace psych from the ever-fertile mind of John Dwyer and co. With the daydream haze of last year’s Drop putting an end to the ... Read more »

Their 2013 debut Performance didn't spark throughout, but its clutch of on-the-money highlights announced Outfit as an act keen – and equipped – ... Read more »

Few bands can rule that 'love is the answer' without a single wink of irony, and pull it off with magnificent, majestic aplomb. For this reason, amongst many... Read more »

All told, it was a league apart from your typical, cynical reformation. When The Afghan Whigs amicably called it a day in 2001, their reasons (geography, fam... Read more »

The cold landscapes of Darkstar’s work have always been permeated with glimmers of humanity. James Buttery’s vocals on North flickered like snatc... Read more »

2013's The Shadow of Heaven saw MONEY become a worthy addition to Manchester’s rich bloodline of musical mavericks. Bewitching melodies, lyrical dexter... Read more »

Gothenburg post-punks Makthaverskan (which roughly translates as "Girl Power") take their time, that much is clear. Their three albums have been re... Read more »