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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MusicNine Inch Nails @ The SSE Hydro, 20 May
Slinking on stage through mist to the sinister strains of The New Flesh, Trent Reznor somehow has everything and nothing to prove here tonight. With a track ... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
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Roll the Dice – Until Silence
Until Silence’s lingering power stems from its galvanising contrasts. For instance, the way the uncompromising Coup De Grace (a visceral combination of... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
MusicChris Devotion and The Expectations – Break Out
Break Out is both a title and a statement of intent for Chris Devotion. Together with his band, he's earned a considerable rep around Glasgow as a thrilling ... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
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Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal
There’s an uneasy cheeriness in the way Andrew Savage utters “I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe” towards the end of Instant Dissassembly’s naggingly repetitious seven minutes, ten songs into Parquet Courts’ addictively disquieting third LP Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
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Alpha Male Tea Party – Droids
Whoever thought up such a ridiculous genre name as ‘math rock’ anyway? It’s just counting. No sums involved. No challenge, unless you find ... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
MusicKing Buzzo – This Machine Kills Artists
They said it couldn’t happen. They said it shouldn’t… oh, OK. We’re fibbing. Still, after 31 years and 19 Melvins albums, it seems o... Read more »| 27 May 2014
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The Phantom Band – Strange Friend
Three and a half years is a long time to wait for a Phantom Band record. The Wants, a dark, brooding beast, was unleashed on listeners still punch-drunk from... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
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Sage Francis – Copper Gone
Sage Francis returns with a new album on Scroobius Pip's Speech Development, putting paid to the notion that his step back from the constant grind of touring was also the point at which he hung up his mic Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
MusicPAWS – Youth Culture Forever
PAWS took the brave decision to handle production duties of Youth Culture Forever themselves, a bold move that other groups have lived to regret. But the Gla... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
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Howling Bells – Heartstrings
Motherhood has kept Juanita Stein and Howling Bells off the radar these past years and fourth album Heartstrings must surely be a test of their staying ... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
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Hamilton Leithauser – Black Hours
With The Walkmen currently on an “extreme hiatus,” frontman Hamilton Leithauser strikes out alone with solo debut Black Hours. Well, not entirely... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
FilmSullivan’s Travels
Opening with a film within a film’s ending, director and million dollar talent John L. Sullivan (John McCrea) is looking to abandon the mainstream cine... Read more »| 26 May 2014 -
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The Acid – Liminal
Eleven kinds of loneliness, wrote Yates; here’s eleven tracks of it. Appropriately named threesome The Acid (Ry X, Steve Nalepa, and Adam Freeland) ser... Read more »| 26 May 2014 -
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Emma Ruth Rundle – Some Heavy Ocean
In a similar vein to label-mate Chelsea Wolfe, there's a certain desolation and sparseness to Emma Ruth Rundle's sound that's both mysterious and alluring. T... Read more »| 26 May 2014 -
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Jerry David DeCicca – Understanding Land
The Black Swans are no more, their fifth and final album, 2012’s Occasion For Song, a frank meditation on the loss of band member Noel Sayre. Sayre was... Read more »| 26 May 2014