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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MusicThe Pyramids – Otherworldly
Listening to Otherworldly, the first release from this legendary US cosmic jazz collective since they disbanded in 1977, is – appropriately enough &nda... Read more »| 26 Sep 2012 -
Music
Kreidler – Den
Den is the eleventh studio album released by this Düsseldorf instrumental quartet since their formation in 1994, but their prolific output shows no si... Read more »| 26 Sep 2012 -
Music
Flying Lotus – Until the Quiet Comes
If Cosmogramma was the sound of Flying Lotus coming of age, making a statement of intent that would define the approach and philosophy not just of his Brainf... Read more »| 25 Sep 2012 -
Music
Terror Danjah – The Dark Crawler
Terror Danjah has been around since grime’s inception, producing classic dancefloor-destroying rhythms (anyone remember Zumpi Hunter?). His debut for H... Read more »| 25 Sep 2012 -
BooksThe Stone Thrower by Adam Marek
Adam Marek’s second collection of short stories, The Stone Thrower, revolves around the profound and sometimes unexplainable relationship between paren... Read more »| 25 Sep 2012 -
BooksThe Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian
Chris Adrian's second novel, The Children's Hospital, has been published for the first time in the UK some years after its debut in the states. This is presu... Read more »| 25 Sep 2012
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Books
The Heart Broke In by James Meek
Ritchie Shepherd is a middle-aged television producer, threatened by catastrophic gossip: an ill-thought out affair threatens to destroy everything he cla... Read more »| 25 Sep 2012 -
MusicDaphni – Jiaolong
Dan Snaith’s Daphni project functions, for him, as a kind of antithesis to his more well-known Caribou alter ego; as he explains, the creative proces... Read more »| 25 Sep 2012 -
Art
Rembrandt and the Passion @ Hunterian Museum
The name 'Rembrandt' conjures up the kind of obvious and indisputable sense of quality that's often deliberately missing from contemporary art – art cr... Read more »| 25 Sep 2012 -
Film
Holy Motors
Holy Motors is the first Leos Carax feature since 1999's Pola X, and it sometimes feels as if every single idea, dream and nightmare that he has had in those... Read more »| 24 Sep 2012 -
ClubsCasual Violence @ Unseen, Studio 24, 5 October
If you looked up the word 'uncompromising' in the Dictionary of Techno, you might well expect to see a picture of Manchester's Casual Violence on display. Me... Read more »| 24 Sep 2012 -
Film
Looper
Rian Johnson’s third film is assuredly his best effort to date. The genre-bending director, having tackled film noir by way of adolescence (in Brick) a... Read more »| 24 Sep 2012 -
Music
Negative Pegasus – Looming
If one has ever been introduced to Negative Pegasus by way of a festival flyer or an egotist blog, allow the following to function as an official disclaime... Read more »| 24 Sep 2012 -
Music
Hidden Orchestra – Archipelago
Hidden Orchestra's sophomore album sees the Edinburgh outfit once more trading in lushly-orchestrated, cinematic compositions with strings, flute, horn and b... Read more »| 21 Sep 2012 -
Film
Killing Them Softly
In adapting George V. Higgins’ 1974 novel Cogan’s Trade, writer/director Andrew Dominik updates the action to 2008 and lays on the political alle... Read more »| 21 Sep 2012