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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MusicHomeboy Sandman – Hallways
With production handled by DJ Spinna, Jonwayne, a clutch of emerging beatmakers, and a fantastic contribution from minimalist composer Josef Van Wissem, Home... Read more »| 26 Aug 2014 -
MusicJeffrey Lewis & the Jrams @ The Deaf Institute, Manchester, 23 August
When an artist as tirelessly creative as Jeffrey Lewis makes his first appearance in Manchester for three years (barring last year's show with veteran folk h... Read more »| 26 Aug 2014 -
Music
Tricky – Adrian Thaws
Adrian Thaws is, of course, Tricky’s real name. But don’t expect this album to reveal anything new about the Knowle West boy. Rather, Adrian Thaw... Read more »| 26 Aug 2014 -
Musicsleepmakeswaves – Love of Cartography
The lambent, dreamlike qualities of sleepmakeswaves’ post-rock re-imaginings have always been underscored by a winning paradox: music without words it ... Read more »| 26 Aug 2014 -
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Interpol – El Pintor
If opener and lead single All the Rage Back Home doesn’t hook from the off, fear not. Like much of this fifth album from the newly trim trio, bassist C... Read more »| 26 Aug 2014 -
MusicSinkane – Mean Love
Sinkane's 2012 album Mars made a convincing case for Ahmed Gallab being the inheritor of Curtis Mayfield's crown. On Mean Love, his delicate falsetto, the br... Read more »| 26 Aug 2014
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Music
Little Tornados – We Are Divine
For anyone disappointed by a lack of overt political engagement in pop, try Little Tornados on for size. Led by multi-instrumentalist and songwriter David Th... Read more »| 26 Aug 2014 -
Art
Open Dialogues @ RSA
Featuring six newly distinguished names as an ode to New Contemporaries' six years in existence, the Royal Scottish Academy teams up with GENERATION to deliv... Read more »| 25 Aug 2014 -
Music
Pulled Apart By Horses – Blood
Pulled Apart By Horses have been successfully welding grimy blues rock to post punk sensibilities for some time. Third album Blood might not win ov... Read more »| 25 Aug 2014 -
Film
Obvious Child
Hollywood films have famously shown great reluctance to engage with the issue of abortion in an honest way, so the frankness of Gillian Robespierre’s d... Read more »| 25 Aug 2014 -
Music
The Travelling Band – The Big Defreeze
The opening line of album number three from Manchester's folk rock stalwarts serves notice of an unexpectedly dark outlook. “There is a man in my dream... Read more »| 22 Aug 2014 -
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Love Inks – Exi
…In which the Austin trio further refine their minimalist sound to yet more sombre proportions. Where jangling guitars once nagged and prodded atop si... Read more »| 22 Aug 2014 -
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Joel Gion – Apple Bonkers
After nearly 20 years of rattling the tambourine for The Brian Jonestown Massacre – arguably the cushiest job in rock – Joel Gion finally pens a ... Read more »| 22 Aug 2014 -
Film
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Belated (and noticeably cheaper-looking) Sin City sequel A Dame to Kill For opens with the line, “This doesn’t look good at all. I’ve gone ... Read more »| 22 Aug 2014 -
Film
Lucy
Rock legends Spinal Tap once philosophised that there’s a fine line between stupid and clever, and Luc Besson’s loony Lucy may be the filmic epit... Read more »| 22 Aug 2014