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Great Scots: 2024's Best Scottish Music - The Skinny
Dec 20, 2024 · We cover as much of it as we can in our weekly Spotlight On… features, monthly new Scottish music column – Music Now – and do our best to update our Spotify playlist of the same name every Friday with the best new Scottish music we can find. But on our last day in the office, it’s always fun to look back at the year on the whole, trawling through 12 months of coverage, and pulling ...
The Skinny's Albums of 2024
Feb 13, 2024 · 9. Cindy Lee – Diamond Jubilee Why do we constantly have to reach for authenticity? Can we not fully realise ourselves in performance? On Diamond Jubilee, Cindy Lee whacks a crowbar into authenticity with her perfectly manicured hand.Like the hair of Patrick Flegel’s drag alter ego, this two-plus hour opus of retro-fetishistic, psychedelic pop is pristine, precise and impeccably paced, not ...
The Outrun review: Saoirse Ronan is transcendent - The Skinny
Sep 23, 2024 · The bleak details of Rona’s destructive relationship with drink in London – her inability to call it a night, a habit of hiding bottles around her flat, the blackouts from which she wakes covered in cuts and bruises – are perhaps overfamiliar from other cinematic tales of alcoholism, but the scenes on Orkney are fresher.
FLO album review: Access All Areas - The Skinny
Dec 13, 2024 · Access All Areas is an assertively, confidently, confoundingly surface level record that succeeds in presenting their lead singles with various wigs on for 45 minutes and change. What a strange and mystifying life in which that makes for a good time, yet it does. Like their AC/DC forebearers, they’ve written one damn good song so many different ways that an antitrust lawsuit for monopolizing ...
Spotlight On... Jacob Alon - The Skinny
Nov 14, 2024 · Born in Fife but based in Edinburgh, Alon released their debut single Fairy In a Bottle in September, going on to perform it on Later…With Jools Holland at the weekend. Delivering a performance you could describe with all of those aforementioned cliches, on Monday they released their second single, the equally captivating and heartstring-tugging Confession, further demonstrating Alon's ...
What's On in Glasgow - The Skinny
Glasgow. Welcome to our carefully curated guide to what’s on in Glasgow, where you can find the best events, attractions and venues for live music, comedy, art, theatre, and food and drinks.
Michael Kiwanuka - Small Changes album review: The Skinny
Nov 12, 2024 · Mercury Prize recipient Michael Kiwanuka, Sault’s resident maestro Inflo and the inimitable Danger Mouse reunite on Kiwanuka’s fourth album, Small Changes.The album angles to circumvent the temporal; a confident stride in classic songwriting and craftsmanship that gives way to yet another example of Kiwanuka and his collaborators upping their creative ante.
Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate album review: The Skinny
Oct 15, 2024 · Kelly Lee Owens’ brand of pop-leaning techno has been gaining her attention since 2017. With her fourth album Dreamstate, the first release on George Daniel of The 1975’s new electronic imprint dh2, the Welsh songwriter, producer and DJ turns to dreaming as her MO, via ten tracks full to the brim with sonic escapism.
Mogwai - The Bad Fire album review - The Skinny
6 days ago · As veteran indie stalwarts Mogwai enter their 30th year of existence, they find themselves at a crossroads. Since their inception in 1995, they've gone from rebels raging against the Britpop machine to bastions of Glasgow's alternative music scene to their present number one record-selling elder-statesmen status.