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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FilmThe Landlord
In his directorial debut, the great Hal Ashby tackled race relations head on with this fable of gentrification and radical chic. Elgar (Beau Bridges) is a sp... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
FilmMoonrise Kingdom
Like Wes Anderson's previous films, Moonrise Kingdom is located in a place that is at one remove from reality, where he can create a jewel-like world with a ... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
MusicConverge – All We Love We Leave Behind
With so much made of “tricky” second and third albums, not many platitudes exist to explain the challenge faced by those bands with the gumpt... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
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Rozi Plain – Joined Sometimes Unjoined
Where Rozi Plain’s debut Inside Over Here was pieced together from various home recordings, the creation of Joined Sometimes Unjoined involved a full b... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
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Lukid – Lonely at the Top
Although previous Lukid records have always been beautifully complex and intricate, they have also been fairly easy to place within contemporary electroni... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
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The Dirty Dozen – October 2012
Recovering at his Edinburgh home from a nasty chest infection, Dan ‘Withered Hand’ Willson dutifully bunkers down to the healing sounds of October’s single releases Read more »| 02 Oct 2012
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MusicHidden Orchestra: In Plain Sight
Joe Acheson talks to The Skinny about Hidden Orchestra's beautiful new album Archipelago, and the highlights of the Scottish urban music scene today Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
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Bat for Lashes – The Haunted Man
The biggest difference between The Haunted Man and 2009's Two Suns is in the presentation – gone are the intricate, ornate, quasi-mystical visual trapp... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
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WHY? – Mumps, etc.
Alopecia and Eskimo Snow saw WHY? distance themselves from the hip-hop template that defined their earlier albums as Yoni Wolf’s neurotic drawl playe... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
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PAWS – Cokefloat!
Recorded on a boat moored on the Thames, it's easy to imagine that this much-anticipated debut album from garage pop rockers PAWS could have sunk under the... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
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Gav Prentice – The Invisible Hand
You can appreciate why Over the Wall’s Gav Prentice felt the need to release these songs under his own name, as opposed to incorporating them into th... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
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Errors – New Relics
For a band whose last LP has largely come to be considered their most accomplished to date, it’s no wonder that Errors have, with this mini album relea... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
Music
We Are the Physics – Your Friend, The Atom
There's always been a touch of crazy to Scotland's most lauded musicians. Orange Juice were awash with art school exhibitionism; mid-career Primal Scream wer... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
Music
Tenebrous Liar – End of the Road
Since NME photographer Steve Gullick formed Tenebrous Liar in 2006, they’ve racked up an improbable seven LPs of roughly-hewn, heart-on-sleeve grungy ... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
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NETVERK – October 2012
In this month's NETVERK: Death Grips measure their dicks, Busdriver gives away a free EP, plus releases from Phuturelabs, Lazerhawk, TEXTBEAK and witch-step phenomenons Bruxa! Read more »| 01 Oct 2012