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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MusicForest Swords – Engravings
From its opening notes, Forest Swords' debut album – after 2010's well-received mini, Dagger Paths – is an understated and hauntingly beautiful e... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
MusicJulianna Barwick – Nepenthe
Nepenthe was an antiquated potion of forgetfulness (literally, “anti-sorrow”), and this second album from ethereal songstress Julianna Barwi... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
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Charlie Jones – Love Form
There’s no denying Charlie Jones’ compositional abilities, musicianship, or technical nous. In his virtuosic playing, complex structuring, and ob... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
MusicLaura Veirs – Warp and Theft
Laura Veirs’ ninth studio album is an atmospheric, country-inflected journey, forged from tales of bad men, jazz musicians, and the sights and sounds o... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
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No Age – An Object
Los Angeles based duo No Age’s previous albums explored the boundaries between noise, punk and melodic indie-rock, with frequent beatific results. Thei... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
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Dress to Impress: Liverpool band Outfit ready their debut
Three years, two cities and finding out who they are – as well as who they're not – have fed into Performance, the anticipated debut album from Liverpool's Outfit. We meet a band dedicated to interrogating the intangible Read more »| 06 Aug 2013
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Zola Jesus & JG Thirlwell – Versions
Zola Jesus, aka experimental musician and songwriter Nika Rosa Danilova, collaborated with veteran producer Foetus, aka JG Thirlwell, on these neo-classical ... Read more »| 06 Aug 2013 -
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Pinkunoizu – The Drop
There’s more than a whiff of prog about The Drop, the second LP from this Danish quartet, from the disorienting, pitch-bent synths of opener The Great ... Read more »| 06 Aug 2013 -
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Kill the Captains – Sounds Mean
Pleasingly difficult to pin down, Kill the Captains’ second album Sounds Mean skips around pigeonholes dextrously and with a discernible sense of humou... Read more »| 06 Aug 2013 -
BooksWhat the River Washed Away by Muriel Mharie Macleod
Life as a black woman in 1920s Louisiana, battling the double-barreled bigotry of race and gender, African-American, but without a true home in either, torn ... Read more »| 05 Aug 2013 -
Film
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
An adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ feminist novel Foxfire might seem like an unlikely choice for Laurent Cantet, but the material actually feels like ... Read more »| 05 Aug 2013 -
ClubsNo Grand Narrative: Sync In Squares
With no fixed abode, an apparent disregard for any notion of genre and a commitment to only that which is 'forward-thinking', Sync In Squares present a series featuring Just Blaze, Thundercat, Andrés and DJ Haus Read more »| 05 Aug 2013 -
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The Lone Ranger
Bloated, hubristic and an awkward mish-mash of wildly conflicting tones, it’s easy to see why US critics lined-up to give Gore Verbinski’s The Lo... Read more »| 05 Aug 2013 -
Books
The Gardener from Ochakov by Andrey Kurkov
The Gardener from Ochakov is the latest offering from Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov. The darkly comic novel centres on the misadventures of Igor Andreevna w... Read more »| 05 Aug 2013 -
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Neil and Rob Gibbons on writing Alan Partridge's big screen debut
This month Norfolk’s premier broadcaster, Alan Partridge, makes his debut on the big screen in Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa. We speak to Neil and Rob Gibbons, the writing duo responsible for Partridge's glorious comeback Read more »| 02 Aug 2013