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 Bug – Infected EP
Twenty years on, and Ninja Tune’s fire still burns bright. Hot on the heels of its retrospective mix comes this four-tracker that neatly sums up the la... Read more »| 28 Oct 2010 -
Music
Errors – Celebrity Come Down With Me
The title of this record may conjure up the possibility of an intriguing new x-rated game show, but the reality is actually a lot more fun; all your favourit... Read more »| 28 Oct 2010 -
MusicHaight-Ashbury – Here in the Golden Rays
With accents that sound distinctly more Pacific than Scottish West Coast, and a misnomer borrowed from San Francisco’s historic, hippy-harbouring subur... Read more »| 28 Oct 2010 -
MusicThe Concretes – Wywh
Swedish octet pop collective The Concretes have put the departure of former front woman Victoria Bergsman behind them to come up with a curiously restrained ... Read more »| 28 Oct 2010 -
Music
The Vatican Cellars – The Same Crooked Worm
The Vatican Cellars’ central duo met and bonded following mutual bereavements, but there’s a frustrating lack of catharsis and depth in the songs... Read more »| 28 Oct 2010 -
MusicBrian Eno – Small Craft On A Milk Sea
Warp’s signing of Brian Eno was a symbolic coup for the label, the spiritual homecoming of a common ancestor to their entire roster’s two-decade ... Read more »| 28 Oct 2010
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Film
Let Me In
Matt Reeves' Let Me In may be a pointless exercise, but as pointless exercises go, it's not a bad effort. This English-language remake of the cult Swedish ho... Read more »| 28 Oct 2010 -
Music
Kelly Stoltz – To Dreamers
Sitting somewhere between the Velvet Underground and T Rex, San Francisco multi-instrumentalist Kelley Stoltz' musical horizons remain fixed firmly in the pa... Read more »| 27 Oct 2010 -
Books
Phantoms of Breslau by Marek Krajewski
Phantoms of Breslau is the third in a series of books following the investigations of Eberhard Mock, the delightfully unorthodox Criminal Assistant w... Read more »| 27 Oct 2010 -
Music
Chickenhawk – Modern Bodies
This record actually marks the coming together of Chickenhawk's limited edition debut album and its following EP, awkwardly titled the A. Or Not?, plus Scorp... Read more »| 27 Oct 2010 -
Music
Snowblink – Long Live
Long Live first trickled into view in 2008, extolled by a handful of in-the-loop bloggers and publications as one of the year’s finest albums. Despite ... Read more »| 27 Oct 2010 -
Comedy
In Profile: Jason Cook
Jason Cook talks life, death, happiness and dolphins Read more »| 27 Oct 2010 -
FilmMammoth
Lukas Moodysson's approach to filmmaking was becoming increasingly experimental, so it is a surprise to see how conventional Mammoth is. His follow-up to the... Read more »| 27 Oct 2010 -
Music
The Thermals – Personal Life
With their tinny, post-punk guitars and fragmented lyrical critiques of bible-belt America, Oregon three-piece The Thermals openly acknowledge their ideologi... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010 -
Music
How To Swim – Retina (or More Fun Than a Vat of Love)
Glasgow's How To Swim bring us their debut album, Retina (or More Fun Than a Vat of Love), with the promise of crossing as many musical borders as possible. ... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010