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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MusicM83 – Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
M83’s last album, Saturdays = Youth, was their biggest critical and commercial success to date. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, then, is a curveball. W... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
MusicKeith Top Of The Pops & His Minor UK Indie Celebrity All-Star Backing Band – Fuck You! I'm Keith Top Of The Pops
Clearly saturated in ramshackle influences such as Half Man Half Biscuit, The Fall and Carter USM (who feature here), Keith TOTP can't quite shake off the co... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
Film
Drive
Danish auteur Nicolas Winding Refn (Pusher trilogy, Valhalla Rising) teams up with Ryan Gosling to produce a taut, ferocious and glossy homage to the seedy c... Read more »| 23 Sep 2011 -
ArtFruit Tree Template
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Music
Martyn – Ghost People
Dutch producer Martyn's Brainfeeder debut isn't the 'statement' record that some observers might have anticipated, nor does it represent a wholesale paradigm... Read more »| 22 Sep 2011 -
Film
When China Met Africa
Napoleon once said, “China is a sleeping giant but when she wakes she will shake the world.” Capturing this rising titan’s strides into Afr... Read more »| 22 Sep 2011
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MusicRustie – Glass Swords
As the comical specificity of labels like ‘aquacrunk’ suggests, it’s generally a futile enterprise to attempt to negotiate the bewilderingl... Read more »| 22 Sep 2011 -
Music
Martin John Henry – The Other Half of Everything
After the disappointing split of De Rosa on the back of their excellent second album Prevention, this first solo offering by frontman Martin John Henry is a ... Read more »| 22 Sep 2011 -
Music
Feist – Metals
Leslie Feist returns with the eagerly anticipated follow up to 2007’s The Reminder which, assisted by an iPod iteration that even today seems quite dat... Read more »| 22 Sep 2011 -
Music
dEUS – Keep You Close
Opinions on dEUS vary wildly. The band effectively divided their career in two when they went on hiatus early last decade only to return with a significantly... Read more »| 22 Sep 2011 -
Music
Wild Flag – Wild Flag
The latest noteworthy outfit to emerge from the US Pacific Northwest are something of a supergroup, combining members of Sleater-Kinney, Helium, Quasi and th... Read more »| 22 Sep 2011 -
Books
The Tree That Bleeds
In 2001 Nick Holdstock travelled to Yining, a city in China’s largest province – the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region – to ‘teach En... Read more »| 22 Sep 2011 -
Books
The Darkest Walk, by Malcom Archibald
The workers are revolting – and not just because they haven’t had a wash. Insurrection is in the air, and only one man can save the respectable... Read more »| 22 Sep 2011 -
Books
Good Offices by Evelio Rosero
Evelio Rosero won his first literary award in 1979, and it would come as no surprise if he were given another honour for new novel Good Offices. Set in Ros... Read more »| 22 Sep 2011 -
Books
Gioconda by Lucille Turner
Gioconda – a study of the life of Leonardo da Vinci – is a first novel by Lucille Turner, imagining thelife of the artist, from his humble beginn... Read more »| 22 Sep 2011