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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MusicBroadcast - The Future Crayon
Versatile to the point of almost breaking Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
ClubsMilanese - Extend
Milanese's outerlimit doom-step is menacing, danceable and constantly exhilarating. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Theatre
Yellow Moon
a surprising studio play, galvanised by a fine cast and unfussy directorial verve Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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
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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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MusicThe 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.
Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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 -
MusicRed 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