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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MusicYeasayer - Odd Blood
When Yeasayer hit their groove they're virtually untouchable as a creative force. It's when they get bogged down in that trippy, sludgy quick sand that we sw... Read more »| 26 Jan 2010 -
MusicTime to Unwind
From the ashes of Aereogramme, Craig B and Iain Cook return this month as The Unwinding Hours, a sedate, late-night counterpart to their former day job. Read more »| 26 Jan 2010 -
Music
These New Puritans - Hidden
Heralded as a masterpiece upon its release in 2005, Liars' Drum's Not Dead often finds itself in a laundry list of esoteric influences for any number of youn... Read more »| 26 Jan 2010 -
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Built to Spill - There Is No Enemy
Built to Spill are an endangered species. Even though 1997’s Perfect from Now On and their powerful influence on America's "Northwest sound" (c... Read more »| 26 Jan 2010 -
Music
Bass Clef - May The Bridges I Burn Light The Way
As the title suggests, the three year wait for dubstep prodigy Ralph Cumbers – AKA Bass Clef – to serve up his second album has been partly due t... Read more »| 26 Jan 2010 -
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Xiu Xiu @ Nice 'n' Sleazy, 21 Feb
Experimental art rock gaggle Xiu Xiu will be packing an emotive punch on this forthcoming tour for Dear God, I Hate Myself, if lush album teaser Gray Death i... Read more »| 25 Jan 2010
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Music
Japanese Voyeurs - That Love Sound/Blush
Who remembers the 90s? Japanese Voyeurs certainly do, or if they’re not old enough, they’ve been busily swotting up on their big brother’s ... Read more »| 25 Jan 2010 -
FilmThe Army of Crime
The Army of Crime joins a roster of recent European films exploring the continent’s wartime past from a fresh perspective. French realist Gu&e... Read more »| 25 Jan 2010 -
BooksThe Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn’s The Rescue Man is above all a tribute to Liverpool – the city’s history, architecture and people. The story unfolds... Read more »| 25 Jan 2010 -
Music
Vivian Girls @ Captain's Rest, 20 Jan
Vivian Girls are on surprisingly prim form. Sure, there's plenty of scuzz, toms and harmonic reverb-filled vocals, especially during Second Date and an acape... Read more »| 25 Jan 2010 -
FilmBrothers
From a troubled upbringing dominated by their heavy-drinking, Marine father (Sam Shepard) the Cahill brothers have grown into very different men. Sam... Read more »| 25 Jan 2010 -
Film
Top Five: February Film Events
Legendary film critic Mark Kermode is at the Cameo on 8 February and the GFT on the 9 February, discussing the experiences he's had during his lucrative, out... Read more »| 25 Jan 2010 -
Art
Karla Black @ Inverleith House
An artist who has described her own work as “in no way supposed to look like a landscape”, Black was faced with a challenge in the form of Inverl... Read more »| 25 Jan 2010 -
Books
The House of the Mosque
With gentle beginnings, this novel resembles a folk tale. It gradually introduces the members of an extended family who have lived in the titular hou... Read more »| 25 Jan 2010 -
Film
Adoration
After a brief flirtation with genre filmmaking in the underrated Where the Truth Lies, Atom Egoyan's Adoration finds the auteur in more familiar terr... Read more »| 25 Jan 2010