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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MusicSparrow and the Workshop – Spitting Daggers
Having only released their debut EP in mid-2009, here Sparrow and the Workshop are already with their second album proper. With each step they’ve grown... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
MusicChad VanGaalen – Diaper Island
Released last year, Women’s second album garnered almost as many plaudits for producer Chad VanGaalen – who cultivated an unsettling atmosphere p... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
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The Bookhouse Boys – Tales To Be Told
The Bookhouse Boys do not live in a happy world. From the gloomy swirl of Gone – which opens the London group's second long player – to the edgy ... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
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L'Age D'Or
“Surreal” is a much over used adjective but L'Age D'Or is the real deal. Made in 1930 by the Surrealist dream team of Salvador Dali and Luis Bunu... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
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Destroyer – Kaputt
It would be easy to dismiss Kaputt as all surface, no feeling on first listen. Dan Bejar’s tenth album as Destroyer appropriates a side of eighties&rsq... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
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Tom Vek – Leisure Seizure
Perhaps fed up with spending the last five years as a subject of those 'Whatever happened to…' conversations, Tom Vek returns. Although he spent 2005 ... Read more »| 24 May 2011
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MusicBoris – Heavy Rocks
That similarities exist between the 2011 and 2002 incarnations of Heavy Rocks is to be expected, but this release holds as much in common with all of Boris&r... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
Music
You Already Know – Petrol Money
Let’s Fuck: hell of a way to kick off an album, right? Well, this blunt honesty fits well with everything about this four-piece. There’s no bulls... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
ArtDundee Degree Show 2011
It's degree show time again, and first up is DJCAD – replete with eggs and a weird ape-man Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
BooksA Rose Loupt Oot, edited by David Betteridge
A Rose Loupt Oot is a collection of songs and poems associated with the work-in at the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, now nearly 40 years ago. The bulk of the wor... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
Books
On the State of Egypt by Alaa Al Aswany
Even as the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak reached its climax, there were those who doubted the possibility of regime change in Egypt. One man... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
Music
U.S. Christmas – The Valley Path
That U.S. Christmas’ made a sizeable contribution to last year’s tribute to space-rock maestros Hawkwind won’t come as any surprise to anyo... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
Music
Night Noise Team – Slow Release
Night Noise Team launch Slow Release with real gusto, singer Sean Ormsby promising that they’ve “got something for you” on opener The Gift.... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
Music
Joan of Arc – Life Like
In the fifteenth century the French stacked up some logs and set fire to the heroine that would come to be known as Joan as Arc. Hundreds of years later it's... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
Music
Jacob Yates & the Pearly Gate Lock Pickers – Luck
This might be Jacob Yates & the Pearly Gate Lock Pickers’ debut full-length, but they’ve got hefty boots to fill, what with Uncle John & ... Read more »| 23 May 2011