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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Motor - Unhuman
The acid sound gets an electro-house re-birth on Unhuman, fitted around jackin' beats, vocodered lyrics, and erratic clicks. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Trashed
Amid a flurry of changes to the Edinburgh scene (the closure of Sala, opening of Destination's women's night, and the relocation to Studio 24 of Velvet and Z... Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Books
The Savage Altar by Asa Larsson
Larsson consistently uses tired clichés and one-dimensional, over-familiar characters Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
Lest the moral of the story get you down (or alienate the lucrative American market) there's a love story to divert the attention. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Prince: Thief in the Temple by Brian Morton
Purple and peach sex grooves evolving at a frightening pace... Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
Will rivet eyes to its pages. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007
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Books
Gold by Dan Rhodes
Who but Dan Rhodes can weave so seamlessly the hilarious and the pathetic? Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Niyi - 808 Klap / Ur Mummy
Niyi is equal parts Wiley, Timmy Mallett pop dross and breakbeat hardcore Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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France Copland, DPLSPK, Maggie May's, Glasgow, 17 Mar
An entire array of cleverness Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Books
Believe in the Sign by Mark Hodkinson
What it means to pathologically follow failure. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Film
Ultimate Avengers II
An entertaining slice of superheroic lunacy Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Clubs
Roll Deep - Rules & Regulations
For true, grimy Roll Deep, seek the mixtapes àbut if you're put off by grime's spiky harshness, this album will definitely be more compatible with your ears. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Music
Justin Nozuka - After Tonight
Tame and commercial: indicating potential, but almost too polished to make an impact. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Music
Malcolm Middleton - Fuck It, I Love You
Happiness is a fragile commodity, always at risk of being shattered by the heavy boulders of the singer's habitual self-doubt. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Music
Cherry Ghost - Mathematics
Grabs you like double periods of trigonomics just never could. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007