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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MusicMy Morning Jacket – The Waterfall
On The Waterfall, Jim James sounds like a man at ease. With his 2013 solo album put to bed, My Morning Jacket’s first record in four years returns the ... Read more »| 22 Apr 2015 -
Music
METZ – II
When METZ kicked down the doors of a complacent post-hardcore scene in 2012, they were touted in some quarters as another 'new Nirvana' – mainly a... Read more »| 22 Apr 2015 -
MusicDoomtree – All Hands
“I got my own nation” goes the hook from All Hands’ second track, an appropriate rallying cry for a 7-piece rap ensemble that’s ... Read more »| 22 Apr 2015 -
MusicBearfoot Beware – World Owes You Nowt
Seems kinda dumb to find fault with a throwback when it delivers the goods as succinctly as this. Leeds triumvirate Bearfoot Beware carry a torch for the nev... Read more »| 22 Apr 2015 -
Film
Avengers: Age of Ultron
In Avengers: Age of Ultron, James Spader voices the eponymous villain, an entity of artificial intelligence that can inhabit seemingly any mechanical host ar... Read more »| 22 Apr 2015 -
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Ava Luna – Infinite House
There's a thin line between having catholic tastes and a predilection for dicking about. You say eclectic, I say make your fucking mind up. Certain chin stro... Read more »| 22 Apr 2015
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Music
Rozi Plain – Friend
Emotional – rather than sonic – clout is its energy source, and Rozi Plain's third album connects at a level beyond mere volume an... Read more »| 22 Apr 2015 -
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Mac McCaughan – Non-Believers
If you’re seeking the buzzsaw powerpop that Mac McCaughan perfected across Superchunk’s quarter-century career, this may disappoint you. Only bri... Read more »| 21 Apr 2015 -
Art
Pyramid Selling, Basketball and Psychosomatic Tourism: This Week in Scottish Art
In this week's Scottish art round-up, there are new shows at Telfer and Collective galleries, a pair of launches at Good Press, and a host of other events in Glasgow, Edinburgh and beyond. Read more »| 21 Apr 2015 -
Film
The enduring influence of David Lynch's Twin Peaks
It's been 24 years since Twin Peaks was cancelled, but such is its influence it feels like it's never been away. With recent talk of new episodes and an upcoming conference devoted to the series, we delve back inside its surreal world Read more »| 21 Apr 2015 -
Film
“I want to be unpredictable”: Roy Andersson Interview
A filmmaker sat on a chair reflecting on cinema – we speak to deadpan poet Roy Andersson about his new film and the human condition Read more »| 21 Apr 2015 -
Music
Jackson Scott – Sunshine Redux
Jackson Scott’s debut album Melbourne had been knocking around online for months before Fat Possum gave it a full release in 2013. With reviews ranging... Read more »| 21 Apr 2015 -
MusicMew – + -
Danish alt-rock dreamboats Mew are return with an ode to the album format; a labour of love that navigates its emotional peaks and troughs with the precision... Read more »| 21 Apr 2015 -
Music
Pale Honey – Youth
Guitar-plus-drums duo does scuzzy dream pop. Not, by any stretch of the imagination, designed to appeal by dint of its novelty, but Pale Honey force enough g... Read more »| 21 Apr 2015 -
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor @ Manchester Albert Hall, 17 April
Tonight, during a crushing Mladic, the epic foundation stone of 2012's 'comeback' album ’Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!, Godspeed You! Black Emperor o... Read more »| 20 Apr 2015