Step into the blood-curdling world of SKYND and you’ll find that those five capitalised consonants might refer to any of three macabre entities using the moniker. Front and centre, SKYND is the vocalist who greets K! backstage at a jam-packed St Luke’s in Glasgow, her pale-blue contacts, powdered face, bright green topknot and pitch-black bondage gear simultaneously fitting with and in defiance of the icy conditions outside. Beyond her, SKYND is the wider band including producer and multi-instrumentalist Father, and drummer Deadbeat, who perform this evening in dark cowls and ghoulish masks reminiscent of late-2000s Slipknot. Perhaps most pivotally, however, SKYND is the “imaginary friend” who’s been stoking the singer’s fascination with true crime her entire life. “I was only f...
