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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MusicOrbital – Wonky
Orbital’s first LP since reforming in 2008 initially strikes out into familiar territory: the opening bars of One Big Moment revisit the combin... Read more »| 02 Apr 2012 -
FilmMother and Child
Mother and Child steps into the lives of middle-aged Karen (Annette Bening), once a teen mother, her estranged, solitary, and fiercely independent daughter E... Read more »| 02 Apr 2012 -
MusicTrembling Bells featuring Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – The Marble Downs
Trembling Bells bring a marked departure from recent Will Oldham-involved projects, with a sound that’s a brimming-over the cup of baroque. Their infu... Read more »| 30 Mar 2012 -
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Amadou & Mariam – Folila
For a visually impaired husband and wife duo from Mali, Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia have an impressive knack of befriending international superstars... Read more »| 30 Mar 2012 -
MusicAU – Both Lights
AU’s latest album is typically arcane, yet it crackles with access points. As always, a casual cadre of guests expand upon Luke Wyland’s intric... Read more »| 30 Mar 2012 -
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Seamus Fogarty – God Damn You Mountain
Rita Jack’s Lament, the centrepiece of Seamus Fogarty’s startlingly good debut album, features a recording of a County Kerry native on her first... Read more »| 30 Mar 2012
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Quakers – Quakers
At 41 tracks, Quakers is a behemoth of a record. It's hip-hop to the core: samples and crisp beats clashing violently beneath a roll call of emcees who r... Read more »| 30 Mar 2012 -
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Haight-Ashbury – Haight-Ashbury 2: The Ashburys
There is absolutely nothing in Haight-Ashbury's second album to suggest they are a three-piece from Glasgow that make music in 2012. This is a band that un... Read more »| 30 Mar 2012 -
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Live Music Highlights – April 2012
Let’s not fuck about, people; Helmet in their prime could wipe the floor with your favourite band. A bit jazz, a little hardcore, and very metal, their... Read more »| 30 Mar 2012 -
FilmEdinburgh International Science Festival: Future Human – the movies
What does it mean to be human, past, present and future? The sci-fi films in the Future Human strand of Edinburgh International Science Festival attempt to answer this question Read more »| 30 Mar 2012 -
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Lightships – Electric Cables
Most Teenage Fanclub albums contain at least one standout penned by bass player Gerard Love: Star Sign, Sparky’s Dream, Ain’t That Enough, I Ne... Read more »| 30 Mar 2012 -
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Eric Chenaux – Guitar & Voice
Its title gives Chenaux’s fourth album for the Constellation label a rather orchestral air. And Guitar & Voice is perhaps best considered as an orc... Read more »| 30 Mar 2012 -
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The Big Beach Ball
The salty shores of the granite palace are set to be smashed to bits this May, by way of a unique and unseen-in-Aberdeen all day party, The Big Beach Ball. C... Read more »| 30 Mar 2012 -
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La Sera – Sees the Light
'Kickball' Katy Goodman – better known as one third of the surf-punk group Vivian Girls – returns with this second solo album under the La Se... Read more »| 29 Mar 2012 -
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Pinkunoizu – Free Time!
Though based in Copenhagan, Pinkunoizu foreground multicultural aspirations via a Japanese name (‘pink noise’) and lyrical references to the Ar... Read more »| 29 Mar 2012