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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MusicFlowers – Everybody's Dying to Meet You
It takes just under 30 seconds for Flowers’ second album Everybody’s Dying to Meet You to vault its promising but wan predecessor (2014’s D... Read more »| 28 Jan 2016 -
MusicDilly Dally @ The Castle Hotel, 23 Jan
Toronto punk four-piece Dilly Dally are building a reputation for themselves as experts in exploring emotions at their rawest, with vocalist Katie Monks&rsqu... Read more »| 28 Jan 2016 -
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Rangda – The Heretic's Bargain
There’s a storm brewing. Clouds writhe and branches flail as it grows bigger and bigger, the sky turning darker by the minute, until everything suddenl... Read more »| 28 Jan 2016 -
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Daughter @ Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, 23 Jan
Daughter have always been quietly, unassumingly tough. Rough on the heartstrings, yeah, but also tough in a vengeful, honest, self-critical manner that belie... Read more »| 27 Jan 2016 -
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Art in Liverpool & Manchester: February 2016
Looking for visual art in Manchester or Liverpool? Here's our guide to the best in Northwest art in February, from rhubarb to non-anthropocentric AI, with work from Martin Parr, KAWS & more. Of course. Read more »| 27 Jan 2016 -
MusicMassive Attack / Young Fathers @ O2 Academy, 22 Jan
'Support slot' is a woefully inadequate descriptor for the brilliant performance erupting from Young Fathers. We’re here, of course, in giddy anticipat... Read more »| 27 Jan 2016
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MusicThe Wave Pictures – A Season in Hull
So, how did you celebrate your last birthday? Pub, was it? Dinner with friends perhaps? Sigh – how unproductive. You want to take a leaf out of th... Read more »| 27 Jan 2016 -
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DIIV – Is The Is Are
There are more than a fair few Brooklyn bands that have a particular taste for jangly guitars and not washing. It is only a minority of these, however, where... Read more »| 27 Jan 2016 -
Books
Scottish Book Trust name New Writers Award winners
The Scottish Book Trust have named the eleven winners of this year's New Writers Awards for unpublished fiction, non-fiction and poetry authors. Each of the... Read more »| 27 Jan 2016 -
Music
Nevermen – Nevermen
Some eight years since they first teased the possibility, maverick Anticon co-founder Doseone (‘mind’), TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe (&... Read more »| 26 Jan 2016 -
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Basia Bulat – Good Advice
The Canadian singer's fourth album is a subtle but distinct redefining of her angular pop aesthetic. Produced by Jim James of My Morning Jacket in his Kentuc... Read more »| 26 Jan 2016 -
ArtThis Week in Scottish Art: Embassy, Tramway & more
Our guide to a week packed with events and exhibitions, including a performance event at new artists' space Celine, and shows at Embassy, Transmission, Good Press and more. Read more »| 26 Jan 2016 -
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Mass Gothic – Mass Gothic
Here comes the cliché: there’s a handful of good songs on Mass Gothic – enough to constitute a strong, promising EP. A good album it ... Read more »| 26 Jan 2016 -
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Benji Hughes – Songs in the Key of Animals
Opening with a funky rundown of the guests at the Peacockin’ Party, including a monkey, a donkey and 'a penguin in a tux lookin’ so deluxe', Song... Read more »| 26 Jan 2016 -
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Beacon – Escapements
Having garnered plaudits for the spacey electronics and sweet vocal mix of 2013’s The Way We Separate, Brooklyn duo Beacon return with a more complex t... Read more »| 26 Jan 2016