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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Kasper Bjorke - In Gumbo
While the array of shiny new sounds presented are very impressive, they're also cold and uninvolving Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Junior Rafael - Darkroom Tracks
While some discs reveal further depths through repeated listens, Darkroom Tracks sounds even more of a one-note wonder Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Jeh5t - Mengi Bus Mixtape
Long on creativity, this mixtape cranks out beats, cuts and rhymes for the masses Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Harmonia - Live 1974
Harmonia's work was consistently permeated by a confidence and experimentalism borne of faith in their own abilities Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Gommagang - Galactic No. 2
Sticking two fingers up at minimal and launching into a delirious thrashing guitar line Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Bring Me The Horizon
Popular, heavy as cancer and bearing a reputation for ill behaviour? Yes, yes and yes. If you're feeling suitably deathly, prepare to take on these Sheffield noisemakers as they rock into Scotland Read more »| 07 Nov 2007
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Where do we go from here? New Work Scotland Programme 2007
A major initiative that affirms the wealth of talent Scotland is yielding Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Ewan Pearson - Piece Work
As much as his trumpet deserves to be blown, most of the compilation is distinctly average Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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DJ Vadim - The Soundcatcher Extras
This album has been done before by many other producers over the past fifteen years. Better late than never eh? Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Color Climax - Plug It In
The flow of Plug It In, the lead track from their long awaited album, screams Reservoir Dogs and could be the opening act for any Tarantino film Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Big Cakes - S.K.I.M
Big Cakes needs more mixing before it comes out of the oven Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Eugene McGuinness
Wouldn't sound too out of place in an Orange commercial Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Caribou - She's The One
It's about infatuation Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Electro Anniversary?
SF: Electro has many beginnings. It's a bit like the universe; what you're told depends on who you ask, and most times something important is left out. To that end, the Skinny asks Trevor Jackson from Playgroup about his new compilation with Alter Ego (Kings of Electro), and the legendary Greg Wilson, about where it all began.
PQ: ""Electro to me is such a broad term. I find it hard to define; in fact I don't really want to define it at all."" - Trevor Jackson (Playgroup) Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Out of the wrong comes the sweetness @ Lowsalt
A suitably dark and intriguing experience Read more »| 07 Nov 2007