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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MusicLILURA – Killer Karma (Track Premiere)
Listen to Killer Karma, the brand new single about getting stuck in toxic relationships from LILURA Read more »| 03 Jul 2019 -
MusicThe Soft Cavalry – The Soft Cavalry
As The Soft Cavalry, Steve Clarke and Slowdive's Rachel Goswell present a highly-textured and intricate album that tackles the paradoxes of adulthood Read more »| 03 Jul 2019 -
MusicTrash Kit – Horizon
Trash Kit expand their sound with strings, brass and synths on their third album, Horizon Read more »| 03 Jul 2019 -
FilmNever Look Away
Never Look Away is a decades-spanning saga about a German artist whose practice is shaped by the turbulent politics of his home nation during the mid-20th Century Read more »| 03 Jul 2019 -
BooksWater Shall Refuse Them by Lucie McKnight Hardy
Water Shall Refuse Them is a vaporous exploration of malice and teenage angst Read more »| 03 Jul 2019 -
MusicHarry Harris – I Feel Drunk All the Time
Harry Harris' new album I Feel Drunk All the Time is full of ambitious songwriting, and covering a lot of ground, half the appeal is not knowing what’s round the next corner Read more »| 03 Jul 2019
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FilmMonsoon
British-Cambodian writer-director Hong Khaou follows-up his delicate debut Lilting with another elegant study of cultural alienation and displacement as a young man born in Vietnam but raised in the UK returns home after three decades Read more »| 03 Jul 2019 -
MusicInterpol @ O2 Academy, Leeds, 25 Jun
Evergreen New Yorkers Interpol continue to ooze class after two decades together Read more »| 02 Jul 2019 -
MusicRichard Hawley – Further
Richard Hawley sets his controls for the heart of optimism on Further Read more »| 02 Jul 2019 -
MusicDeclan Welsh and the Decadent West – No Fun (Video Premiere)
Watch the video for No Fun, the latest single from Declan Welsh and the Decadent West Read more »| 02 Jul 2019 -
FilmKVIFF 2019: Lara
Oh Boy director Jan-Ole Gerster returns with a darkly comic and stealthily moving study of a 60-year-old woman who's having trouble accepting her pianist son's success Read more »| 02 Jul 2019 -
MusicRachel Goswell and Steve Clarke on The Soft Cavalry
Husband and wife team Steve Clarke and Rachel Goswell discuss domesticity, creativity and that other band she may be pretty well known for Read more »| 02 Jul 2019 -
FilmManta Ray (Kraben Rahu)
Thai film Manta Ray invokes Hitchcock, Lynch and Kubrick, standing up to the best of those influences. For those with a penchant for the strange and an eye for surrealist beauty, there are rich rewards here Read more »| 02 Jul 2019 -
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Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck on Never Look Away
The Lives of Others director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is back with new movie Never Look Away, a decade-spanning epic inspired by Gerhard Richter. The German director talks to us about blurring fact and fiction Read more »| 02 Jul 2019 -
MusicThe Skinny on EH-FM: Show 16 (Listen Again)
On this week's show we celebrate Kelburn Garden Party and our favourite albums of 2019 so far; spoiler, it features Carly Rae Jepsen and The Twilight Sad Read more »| 01 Jul 2019