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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MusicWino & Conny Ochs – Heavy Kingdom
Former Obsessed front-man and Dave Grohl-collaborator Wino takes a break from his usual, riff-driven pummelling rock for some acoustic down-time. In this cas... Read more »| 04 Jan 2012 -
MusicHyperpotamus – Delta
Hyperpotamus’s talents are unquestionable – search for video evidence of his looping skills, and marvel as he builds complex tracks from no more ... Read more »| 04 Jan 2012 -
MusicErrors – Have Some Faith in Magic
For their latest trick, Errors have produced their most impressive album thus far. Tusk is an impeccable introduction – bombastic and tight, its openin... Read more »| 04 Jan 2012 -
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Letka – Far Off Country
Letka have the fixings of something special: Sandra O’Neill sings beautifully; Peter Chilvers has proven his diverse talents through collaborations wit... Read more »| 04 Jan 2012 -
FilmAn Island
French filmmaker Vincent Moon specialises in unorthodox music flicks, but An Island is more unorthodox than most. The titular location is Als, the small Dani... Read more »| 03 Jan 2012 -
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DJ Food – The Search Engine
DJ Food has always been a refreshingly nebulous project, with production duties falling to Coldcut, myriad collaborators, and the current helmsman, Strictly ... Read more »| 03 Jan 2012
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Plug – Back On Time
Luke Vibert's prolific output over the last two decades is such that the West Country producer's latest release suggests that even he has lost track. Back On... Read more »| 03 Jan 2012 -
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Wiley – Evolve Or Be Extinct
After last year’s patchy 100% Publishing, Wiley rebounds with Evolve Or Be Extinct. His eighth album kicks off with the digital skank of Welcome To Zio... Read more »| 03 Jan 2012 -
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Three Cane Whale – Three Cane Whale
Recorded live in an eighteenth-century church, in a single eleven-hour sitting, by a minimalist-folk-jazz ‘supergroup’ wielding lyre and bowed ps... Read more »| 03 Jan 2012 -
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The Iron Lady
Meryl Streep, wearing what looks to be Jennifer Saunders’ prosthetics from that Absolutely Fabulous episode set in the future, is Baroness Thatcher. It... Read more »| 03 Jan 2012 -
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Hearts of Darkness
Deriving its name from the book that gave Apocalypse Now its story, Hearts of Darkness is perhaps the world's best-known "The Making of..." documentary. Narr... Read more »| 03 Jan 2012 -
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Laura Gibson – La Grande
Laura Gibson hails from Portland, Oregon, but La Grande owes little to that city’s signature brand of introspective indie; her first record on City Sla... Read more »| 02 Jan 2012 -
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Trailer Trash Tracys – Ester
The debut LP from this London-based quartet is a well-realised take on ethereal, melancholic indie, which shoehorns diverse elements – 80’s-inspi... Read more »| 02 Jan 2012 -
MusicFirst Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar
If 2010's The Big Black & The Blue marked their initial emergence from the backwoods of Stockholm from the resonant echoes of their now notorious Fleet F... Read more »| 02 Jan 2012 -
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Howler – America Give Up
Minnesotan quintet Howler need to cut loose from their influences, or seek out new ones. The debts to The Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy and The Strokes'... Read more »| 02 Jan 2012