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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ClubsDJ Chart: Big Miz
Following the release of the blinding Safari Park Nonsense EP, Offbeat's Chris McFarlane aka Big Miz gives us a peek inside his record bag. Earning early ac... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
MusicCavern of Anti-Matter – Void Beats/Invocation Trex
It’s been seven long years since Marxist ambient-boogie machine Stereolab decided to go on an indefinite hiatus, leaving a small army of vinyl junkies ... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
MusicUniversal Thee – All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
If it’s become a cliché that Scotland – a dreich outcrop sitting atop Western Europe like a soggy top hat – understands the virtues ... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
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Animal Collective – Painting With
The Baltimore avant-garde return with their most focused LP in years Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
ClubsThe quiet world of Moomin
Moomin releases his long-awaited second album, A Minor Thought, this month – nets at the ready It feels wrong to big up Sebastian Genz too much. Here'... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Art
Scottish Art News: February 2016
This month sees a large multidisciplinary show on concrete and Scottish architecture in Dundee Contemporary Arts, a huge student arts festival in Edinburgh (ESAF) and new exhibits from Ingleby, Collective, Transmission and more. Read more »| 03 Feb 2016
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Music
Teen – Love Yes
Its sharp pop sensibilities could fool you into thinking it's not quite as weird as it is, but don’t be tricked: Love Yes is away with the fairie... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
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Lily & Madeleine – Keep It Together
Lily & Madeleine sang 'complacency is the currency/good enough is enough for me' on their 2014 release Fumes. And while their output at such a young age ... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
MusicSarah Neufeld – The Ridge
Sarah Neufeld’s previous outing, Never Were The Way She Was, provided a fascinating conversation between the fluid majesty of her violin and the virtuo... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
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The Cave Singers – Banshee
The Seattle folk rockers' crowdfunded LP is staid, safe and destined to live in the background. Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
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El Guincho – Hiperasia
Album número tres from astro-exotica producer Pablo Díaz-Reixa plays like a radio shuffling through stations. Hiperasia – named after a s... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Film
11 of the Best Chinese Movies
With Chinese New Year approaching, The Skinny's Film team put their heads together to choose their best Chinese movies. Have a look at our choices below and let us know if you agree Read more »| 02 Feb 2016 -
Music
A Mote of Dust / Finn LeMarinel @ The Hug and Pint, 31 Jan
When does a Finn LeMarinel track end? In a hot and airless Hug and Pint – the Celtic Connections banner no doubt aiding a sell-out – and it&rsquo... Read more »| 02 Feb 2016 -
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Plastic Animals / Frog @ Wee Red Bar, 29 Jan
While the past fifteen years have seen the guitar/drums duo become as familiar a line-up as the standard rock quartet, most of the usual practition... Read more »| 02 Feb 2016 -
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John Grant @ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 26 Jan
Glasgow crowds never disappoint. No sooner has the mighty Mr. Grant ambled onto the Royal Concert Hall’s spacious stage (casually dressed: jeans, Nikes... Read more »| 02 Feb 2016