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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MusicPlug – Back On Time
Luke Vibert's prolific output over the last two decades is such that the West Country producer's latest release suggests that even he has lost track. Back On... Read more »| 03 Jan 2012 -
MusicWiley – Evolve Or Be Extinct
After last year’s patchy 100% Publishing, Wiley rebounds with Evolve Or Be Extinct. His eighth album kicks off with the digital skank of Welcome To Zio... Read more »| 03 Jan 2012 -
MusicThree Cane Whale – Three Cane Whale
Recorded live in an eighteenth-century church, in a single eleven-hour sitting, by a minimalist-folk-jazz ‘supergroup’ wielding lyre and bowed ps... Read more »| 03 Jan 2012 -
FilmThe Iron Lady
Meryl Streep, wearing what looks to be Jennifer Saunders’ prosthetics from that Absolutely Fabulous episode set in the future, is Baroness Thatcher. It... Read more »| 03 Jan 2012 -
Film
Hearts of Darkness
Deriving its name from the book that gave Apocalypse Now its story, Hearts of Darkness is perhaps the world's best-known "The Making of..." documentary. Narr... Read more »| 03 Jan 2012 -
Music
Laura Gibson – La Grande
Laura Gibson hails from Portland, Oregon, but La Grande owes little to that city’s signature brand of introspective indie; her first record on City Sla... Read more »| 02 Jan 2012
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Music
Trailer Trash Tracys – Ester
The debut LP from this London-based quartet is a well-realised take on ethereal, melancholic indie, which shoehorns diverse elements – 80’s-inspi... Read more »| 02 Jan 2012 -
Music
First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar
If 2010's The Big Black & The Blue marked their initial emergence from the backwoods of Stockholm from the resonant echoes of their now notorious Fleet F... Read more »| 02 Jan 2012 -
Music
Howler – America Give Up
Minnesotan quintet Howler need to cut loose from their influences, or seek out new ones. The debts to The Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy and The Strokes'... Read more »| 02 Jan 2012 -
Music
The Big Pink – Future This
Two years on from their acclaimed debut A Brief History of Love, this London-based electro-shoegaze duo here augment the narcotic atmospheres of that record ... Read more »| 02 Jan 2012 -
Music
Dear Reader – Idealistic Animals
Idealistic Animals, the second record from South Africa’s Dear Reader, sees now-sole member Cheri MacNeil relocated to Berlin from Johannesburg. The al... Read more »| 02 Jan 2012 -
Music
LAL – LAL
For thirteen years, LAL have sat proudly outside the mainstream, embodying a multicultural, multi-genre approach that combines political activism with elemen... Read more »| 02 Jan 2012 -
Film
Whisper of the Heart
Making a welcome debut on Blu-ray, Whisper of the Heart is a minor classic from Japan's legendary Studio Ghibli, home of the award winning Spirited Away and ... Read more »| 02 Jan 2012 -
Film
The Guard
John Michael McDonagh – forever cursed to be billed as brother to In Bruges' writer-director Michael – tries his hand at directing in this scaldi... Read more »| 02 Jan 2012 -
Clubs
Tabernacle Records: "We are pursuing a labour of love"
One year in, Tabernacle Records owners Andrew Ingram and brothers Joel and Jasper Shaw tell us how their Glasgow club night spawned a label Read more »| 31 Dec 2011