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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Film
The River
an attention to colour that is almost abstract in its boldness and impact Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
The Black Keys - Your Touch
The baddest and best it's sounded since Cream Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
RedCarsGoFaster - 24 Passes / House of Flies
24 Passes is never far away from Joy Division's Glass, jazzed up with a little rock-disco. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Johann Johannsson - The Sun's Gone Dim and the Sky's Turned Black
Delightful, and a perfect example of fusing classical music with avant-electronics.
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Music
The Drones - Gala Mill
Good haunting dust bowl rock for those days spent sitting on a log swigging whiskey and drinking beans out of the can.
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Music
The Aquarium - The Aquarium
It's nice to hear a band who are arty without being po-faced about it.
Read more »| 12 Nov 2006
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Music
Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red Sun
Swelling, never ending guitar crescendos and trance inducing war drums. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Dead Meadow - Dead Meadow
Every party needs a hallucinatory hippy album to finish things off mellow, and Dead Meadow might be just the come-down. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Cortez - Too Orangey For Crows
Though perhaps not earth-shifting, 'Too Orangey For Crows' is too good for anonymity. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Film
Marie Antoinette
Ultimately unsatisfying. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Film
The Departed
Whenever the two moles near each other - or Nicholson is on screen - the film is beyond riveting. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - So Divided
All that's missing is a poetic ramble about Texas radio and the big beat. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Film
The Last Kiss
Manages to remain both warm and touching. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Film
Barnyard
Benefits from a fast pace, electric party scenes and funny moments. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Film
Film Releases November
The Wind That Shakes the BarleySet in Ireland, this film focuses on two brothers caught up in the bloody conflict so frequently misunderstood around the worl... Read more »| 12 Nov 2006