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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MusicThe Skinny's Top 5 Scottish Albums of 2016
Sterling efforts from Frank, Bey et al aside, there were some truly wonderful records made by the fair hearts of Scotland this year. As voted by our Music te... Read more »| 01 Dec 2016 -
MusicPanic Prevention: Frightened Rabbit Interview
Frightened Rabbit are by no means a band averse to drama both on record and off of it, so perhaps it’s no surprise that their 2016 has played out in wh... Read more »| 01 Dec 2016 -
ComedyCrystal Baws: December 2016 Horoscopes
Our resident futurologist Mystic Mark doles out some festive truths in his December horoscopes Read more »| 01 Dec 2016 -
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Bridal Shower – Tapeworm: Video Premiere
The debut track from Glasgow post-punk quartet Bridal Shower Read more »| 01 Dec 2016 -
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The Skinny Top 50 Albums of 2016
After a tumultuous 2016, The Skinny celebrates fifty of the year's very best records... Read more »| 01 Dec 2016 -
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Florentino – Sientelo (Track Premiere)
Listen to Sientelo by Florentino, taken from his new release for Manchester stable Swing Ting Read more »| 01 Dec 2016
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Albums of 2016 (#1): Frank Ocean – Blonde
The Skinny's album of 2016, Frank Ocean's second full-length record prods fearlessly at the reality of modern life Read more »| 01 Dec 2016 -
Books
The Map and the Clock
Despite the old book versus cover mantra, when first given this weighty tome of poetry, curated by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke, the Nati... Read more »| 01 Dec 2016 -
Music
Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygene 3
What? What? No, seriously. This is excellent. Sure, the very mention of the man's name conjures a picture of excess forever associated with a particular... Read more »| 30 Nov 2016 -
MusicPete Doherty – Hamburg Demonstrations
It honestly hurts – we shit you not – to write the words: the latest Pete Doherty album doesn’t make me want to ram a rusty screwdriver int... Read more »| 30 Nov 2016 -
Clubs
Guest Selector: Daniel Ruane
He creates celestial music on the periphery of ambient, techno and electronica; this month's Guest Selector Daniel Ruane presents ten choice tracks from beyond the solar system Read more »| 30 Nov 2016 -
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Hey Colossus – Dedicated to Uri Klangers
Speaker-shredding enormity of sound, thy name be Hey Colossus. This 90-minute double LP collects highlights from the band’s first ten years, and while ... Read more »| 30 Nov 2016 -
Musicworriedaboutsatan – Blank Tape
It’s a risk some artists take, to release so much of their output: all too often, they ultimately spread themselves too thin. How worriedaboutsata... Read more »| 30 Nov 2016 -
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Albums of 2016 (#2): Solange – A Seat at the Table
A Seat at the Table is an enormously historical, deeply political record – if you’ve heard it you’ll know that, but it demands repeating a thousand times over Read more »| 30 Nov 2016 -
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Albums of 2016 (#3): Bon Iver – 22, A Million
On Bon Iver’s engrossing third album 22, A Million, the band’s first album in five years, we hear Justin Vernon triumphantly overcoming his crisis of faith and confidence by asserting himself through technological clutter and finding peace in chaos Read more »| 30 Nov 2016