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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MusicWounds – Die Young
Though the bold album cover and title strongly suggest that an extreme brand of hardcore is on the cards, Dublin's Wounds actually tread much more palatabl... Read more »| 07 Jan 2013 -
MusicFuneral For A Friend – Conduit
Welsh post-hardcore outfit Funeral for a Friend aren't exactly known for their consistency; in tandem with multiple lineup changes, the band's track rec... Read more »| 07 Jan 2013 -
FilmThe Woodsman and the Rain
When a film crew arrives in a small town in rural Japan, Katsu, a recently bereaved lumberjack, is initially unimpressed. But, after he is drafted by the ass... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013 -
Books
Spinach Soup for the Walls by Lynn Harkes
There is no doubt this book has good intentions: beautifully written and graciously told, Spinach Soup for the Walls is a memoir of one woman’s travels... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013 -
MusicTomahawk's Duane Denison talks Oddfellows
As Tomahawk return to the fray with album number four, guitarist Duane Denison accounts for the experimental rock supergroup's five year absence Read more »| 04 Jan 2013 -
Art
The Skinny Showcase: Mary Wintour
Showcase: Mary Wintour Mary Wintour is an artist living and working in London. She graduated from Painting and Printmaking at the Glasgow school ... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013
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Film
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Half a decade since his hypnotic feature debut Hiroshima Mon Amour, Alain Resnais’ latest reverie dissects many of the same themes: love and death, per... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013 -
Music
Ulrich Schnauss – A Long Way to Fall
Ulrich Schnauss’ finely-honed blend of melodic techno and shoegazey electronica places A Long Way to Fall in the company of similarly blissed-out recor... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013 -
Music
Cuddly Shark – The Road to Ugly
Few bands have monikers as apt as Cuddly Shark’s; fun and loveable, but sharp in tooth. Like last year’s Body Mass Index EP and their self-titled... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013 -
Music
Matthew E. White – Big Inner
As well as being the debut album from Richmond, Virginia’s Matthew E White, Big Inner is the vanguard release from Spacebomb, White’s S... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013 -
Music
Fat Goth – Stud
“I think you’ve got too much time on your hands,” deadpans Fraser Stewart at the conclusion of the magnificent Debbie’s Dirty Harry, ... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013 -
Music
Everything Everything – Arc
Everything Everything's mission statement is to make pop music that sounds like no one else – a mantra the Manchester-based band have regularly tr... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013 -
Music
Plantman – Whispering Trees
Close your eyes during Plantman’s debut album and you’ll be transported back to an era of pre-Britpop Indie. Given Matt Randall’s (AKA Plan... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013 -
Music
Falty DL – Hardcourage
New York's Drew Lustman, aka Falty DL, likes to mess with people's expectations. Influenced by house, garage, RnB and future bass, he never settles on one st... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013 -
Music
Toro Y Moi – Anything in Return
The third LP from Chaz Bundick sees the producer’s lush, pop-oriented blend of house and hip-hop take a bold stride towards the mainstream, without s... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013