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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V/A - Soul Jazz Singles 2007
Soul Jazz need to wait longer before they can compile a collection that is of real quality Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
ClubsTom Findlay - Watch the Ride
The lack of Sugardaddy material is its greatest downfall, as Findlay sacrifices personal exposure in order to prove his worth on the decks Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
ClubsTicklah - Ticklah vs. Axelrod
Thanks goes to Ticklah vs. Axelrod for bringing some life back to an increasingly electrified dub world Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
ClubsPrefuse 73 - Preparations
Herren's usual glitchy electronica and cut 'n' paste vocal smatterings Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Nicole Willis and the Soul Investigators - Keep on reaching up: remixed
It does a pretty decent job of sounding like the offcuts of a busy day at Holland-Dozier-Holland Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Kosheen - Damage
Infused with trip-hop, jazz, guitars, and synths Read more »| 07 Nov 2007
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Kasper Bjorke - In Gumbo
While the array of shiny new sounds presented are very impressive, they're also cold and uninvolving Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Junior Rafael - Darkroom Tracks
While some discs reveal further depths through repeated listens, Darkroom Tracks sounds even more of a one-note wonder Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Jeh5t - Mengi Bus Mixtape
Long on creativity, this mixtape cranks out beats, cuts and rhymes for the masses Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
ClubsHarmonia - Live 1974
Harmonia's work was consistently permeated by a confidence and experimentalism borne of faith in their own abilities Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Gommagang - Galactic No. 2
Sticking two fingers up at minimal and launching into a delirious thrashing guitar line Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Music
Bring Me The Horizon
Popular, heavy as cancer and bearing a reputation for ill behaviour? Yes, yes and yes. If you're feeling suitably deathly, prepare to take on these Sheffield noisemakers as they rock into Scotland Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Where do we go from here? New Work Scotland Programme 2007
A major initiative that affirms the wealth of talent Scotland is yielding Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Ewan Pearson - Piece Work
As much as his trumpet deserves to be blown, most of the compilation is distinctly average Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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DJ Vadim - The Soundcatcher Extras
This album has been done before by many other producers over the past fifteen years. Better late than never eh? Read more »| 07 Nov 2007