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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MusicWe Were Promised Jetpacks – The More I Sleep the Less I Dream
After a four-year gap between their last album, Edinburgh’s indie-rockers We Were Promised Jetpacks return with their long-awaited, reflective fourth album Read more »| 13 Sep 2018 -
MusicFatherson – Sum of All Your Parts
Sum of All Your Parts is raw and immersive, leaving soft but long-lasting impressions with the listener that intensify with every listen Read more »| 13 Sep 2018 -
MusicWalt Disco – Danube (Track Premiere)
Listen to the brand new playfully dreamy single, Danube, from Glasgow art-pop four-piece Walt Disco Read more »| 13 Sep 2018 -
Clubs
Klear Vision: Q+A with Krystal Klear
Neutron Dance is being tipped as the track of 2018, so we fired some questions at Dec Lennon, aka Krystal Klear, about living in NYC, what keeps him inspired and how it feels to have the hit of the year on his hands... Read more »| 13 Sep 2018 -
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LOW – Double Negative
With Double Negative, LOW give you the tempest – the here, the now, the fear, the wonder – and they do it uncompromisingly Read more »| 13 Sep 2018 -
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Fizzy Blood – Pink Magic EP
Pink Magic is the third EP from Leeds' Fizzy Blood and it comes across as something of a stopgap ahead of the arrival of their debut full length record Read more »| 13 Sep 2018
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MusicAphex Twin – Collapse EP
On Collapse, Aphex Twin's genre-bending techniques once again prove that electronic can be beautiful, playful and tantalising, if you can bear to sit outside your comfort zone Read more »| 13 Sep 2018 -
Film
TIFF 2018: High Life
Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche star in Claire Denis' sensuous sci-fi that has to be seen to be believed Read more »| 13 Sep 2018 -
Film
Lenny Abrahamson on The Little Stranger
Lenny Abrahamson, the director of Frank, Room and What Richard Did, discusses the challenges of bringing Sarah Waters’ class-conscious ghost story, The Little Stranger, to the big screen Read more »| 13 Sep 2018 -
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Arcane Roots – Landslide
It might only be four-tracks of reworked previously-released songs, but the Kingston trio showcase a fresh array of sounds across a dreamy EP Read more »| 13 Sep 2018 -
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Billy Moon – Punk Songs
Billy Moon's Punk Songs is radical, riotous, entirely relatable and a real affirmation for anyone who has ever used music to get themselves through a tough time Read more »| 13 Sep 2018 -
Music
Le Guess Who? announces final acts for 2018
Neneh Cherry, Tirzah, Virginia Wing, Hot Snakes, Ryley Walker and Alabaster dePlume are among the artists completing the 2018 Le Guess Who? line-up in Utrecht this November Read more »| 12 Sep 2018 -
Film
Halloween
Michael Myers is back to haunt Laurie after 40 years, but in this sequel, Jamie Lee Curtis's character is no victim Read more »| 12 Sep 2018 -
Clubs
Guest Selector: Mixhell
Brazilian husband and wife duo Mixhell talk us through the songs that inspired their new three-track EP Strong & Wrong Read more »| 12 Sep 2018 -
Music
Gigs in Glasgow and Edinburgh: 11-17 Sep
This week in music Freakender returns for its third year, The Big Sit In comes to Glasgow and Kathryn Joseph premieres From When I Wake in collaboration with Cryptic Read more »| 11 Sep 2018