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Pictures from some recent gigs we've hosted:

29 March 2013 - Brixton, London

Viv Albertine, VuVuVultures, Left Leg, Mickey Gloss, Big Wave, No Cars, Arthur Gunn, Simon Love (Pictures)

8 March 2013 - Lexington, London

R.Ring, Golden Grrrls, Slushy Guts and Equinox (Pictures)

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Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold (album)

Antony Harding - Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear (album)

Black Angels - Indigo Meadow (album)

Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin (album)

Still Corners - Strange Pleasures (album)

Savages - Silence Yourself (album)

Mikal Cronin - MC II (album)

Can’s Ege Bamyasi played by Stephen Malkmus and Friends(album)

Victoria and Jacob - Festival 7"

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (album)

Sauna Youth - False Jesii Part II 7”

Lightning Bolt - Oblivion Hunter

Robyn Hitchcock - There Goes The Ice (2x 12")

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Album Review

Hello Skinny
Hello Skinny Slowfoot

Article written by Michael H - Dec 10, 2012

The self-titled first album from Tom Skinner’s Hello Kitty project is packed with variety. On ‘Aquarius’, from a bubbling chemistry set of electronics, emerges a deeply jazz-faced beat and sonar blips, occasionally lit by the flash of a perfectly placed hand clap. The title track works as a calling card for the album as a whole: late night atmospherics, precision beats, attention capturing rhythms and a properly employed jazz aesthetic embodied in Shabaka Hutchings guttural sax honk and winding clarinet figures. ‘Bump’ employs a shuffling dancehall riddim for Hutchings to flutter and blurt over until the track collapses into a droning hum of Kosmiche synth opaqueness. ‘Crush’ employs clever rhythm science to ensure that every clap, bang and digital chirp slots together seamlessly, Hutchings curling soft runs of clarinet around the gently rolling beats. ‘Knot Blue’ is a highlight; it charts a path through finger-picked guitar, dub inflected drums, electro flourishes and electrified string scraping, before everything comes together in an infectious combination where every sound becomes a flickering beat in an entirely beguiling rhythmic jigsaw.

Elsewhere, Skinner stretches off the beat. The cyclical guitar chiming and long blown trumpet notes of ‘Venus’ create an area within which to appreciate his command of space and subtle ambient detail. ‘Me and My Lady’ has the guitar to the foreground again in a great Ennio Morricone pastiche; all trembling reverb, string twang and steady martial drumming that drifts off into a pretty reverie.

‘Hello Skinny’ is an intelligent, mature work that manages to be as fun as it is inventive; this debut album promises much for the future path of Tom Skinner’s music.

Links:
http://www.slowfoot.co.uk/helloskinny
http://www.slowfoot.co.uk
http://www.soundcloud.com/hello_skinny