Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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MusicDeafheaven – Sunbather
San Francisco's Deafheaven brought a great crossover record to the table with 2011's Roads to Judah, a dramatic debut which used the passionate aggressi... Read more »| 30 May 2013 -
Music
Lumerians – The High Frontier
Like Geoff Barrow's BEAK>, Lumerians are naturally gifted musicians whose playing meshes perfectly, with influences that span psychedelia and experimental... Read more »| 30 May 2013 -
MusicGold Panda – Half Of Where You Live
Gold Panda's second album picks up where Lucky Shiner left off, offering a leftfield, inventive take on various electronic forms. Junk City takes its time to... Read more »| 30 May 2013 -
MusicCSS – Planta
With former member (and apparent mastermind) Adriano Cintra off in a huff, the CSS señoritas are left to fend for themselves, giving us an LP put... Read more »| 30 May 2013 -
MusicQueens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
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 »| 30 May 2013 -
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Spectrals – Sob Story
Spectrals – the nom de plume of Yorkshire singer-songwriter Louis Jones – introduced his brand of lovelorn guitar pop on 2011’s p... Read more »| 30 May 2013
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Clubs
Clubbing Highlights Scotland: June 2013
This month's highlights include faceless future funk from Ultradyne, New York re-edit legend Danny Krivit and Canadian newcomer, Ryan Hemsworth Read more »| 30 May 2013 -
Art
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 29 May
Edinburgh International Film Festival launches; Trent Reznor shocks fans with new Nine Inch Nails album announcement; music from CHVRCHES, Gold Panda, Glass Candy and Sparrow & The Workshop; plus the latest festival and tour news Read more »| 29 May 2013 -
Books
The Professor of Truth by James Robertson
In The Professor of Truth James Robertson again proves himself to be one of Scotland’s best writers and one of the best writers in the world at explori... Read more »| 29 May 2013 -
MusicBob Mould @ Òran Mór, 18 May
With his compelling autobiography, acclaimed solo albums, and comprehensive Sugar reissues in the last few years, interest in Bob Mould is as high ... Read more »| 29 May 2013 -
Music
Mykki Blanco @ Islington Mill, Salford, 16 May
The DJ's beats instigate little more than gentle foot-tapping among the audience; but there is an undisclosed buzz in the room that hints at electric anticip... Read more »| 29 May 2013 -
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Young Fathers – Tape Two
Young Fathers' lo-fi take on 90s R&B, classic soul and old-school hip-hop is increasingly experimental, and that's no bad thing. Their recent excursions ... Read more »| 29 May 2013 -
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Quickbeam – Quickbeam
Although Quickbeam is their debut release, this Glasgow-based quartet have been honing their ethereal, meditative folk for three years, and their d... Read more »| 29 May 2013 -
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Camera Obscura – Desire Lines
For those unfamiliar with the term, ‘desire line’ is the poetic name given to those winding dirt trails that appear when people walk a certain ro... Read more »| 29 May 2013 -
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These New Puritans – Field of Reeds
Billed as a suite in three instalments of three tracks each, These New Puritans' third LP is a studious affair, as absorbant as it is absorbing (among its ma... Read more »| 29 May 2013