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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MusicJames Blake – Playing Robots Into Heaven
The aptly-titled Playing Robots Into Heaven sees James Blake's sound design grip the firmament with hymnal vocals and glitchy configurations uniting android and angel Read more »| 07 Sep 2023 -
MusicRomy – Mid Air
Mid Air is a must-listen for anyone looking for a sentimental electronic dance anthem or for a song to say the words we are sometimes afraid to say Read more »| 07 Sep 2023 -
MusicSparklehorse – Bird Machine
Rarely had a posthumous release felt so emotionally fitting, so lovingly rendered; Bird Machine is a worthwhile coda to Mark Linkous’s legacy Read more »| 07 Sep 2023 -
MusicEthel Cain @ SWG3, Glasgow, 29 Aug
In an intimate gig, Ethel Cain proves she's a singular type of superstar, working a sombre catalogue to euphoric effect Read more »| 05 Sep 2023 -
FilmCeline Song on Past Lives
Celine Song's tender drama Past Lives concerns childhood friends who become separated and then reconnect as adults. Song speaks to us about this decades-spanning love story and the nature of love itself Read more »| 05 Sep 2023 -
MusicCourtney Barnett – End of the Day
The Australian indie-rock sensation trades in her signature sardonic songwriting for contemplative and complex instrumental meditation on new album End of the Day, and the results are mixed Read more »| 05 Sep 2023
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MusicKohla – Romance
Scottish singer-songwriter and producer Kohla documents the sugar-rush of new love in her debut album, Romance Read more »| 05 Sep 2023 -
MusicConnect Festival 2023: The Report
Now into its second year at Edinburgh's Royal Highland Showgrounds, Connect Festival still seems to be casting around for its defining identity, with a weekend’s lineup that swerves from 90s survivors to contemporary chart toppers Read more »| 04 Sep 2023 -
MusicHanna Tuulikki on the bird that never flew
We catch up with multidisciplinary artist Hanna Tuulikki to find out about her latest work, the bird that never flew Read more »| 04 Sep 2023 -
FilmPast Lives
Star-crossed childhood friends reunite as adults in this moving, deeply melancholic film from Celine Song Read more »| 04 Sep 2023 -
MusicHeartbreak is Timeless: Kohla on her debut album
Rachel Alice Johnson, aka Kohla, reflects on the personal metamorphosis that shaped her delicate and immersive "coming-of-age" debut album Romance Read more »| 04 Sep 2023 -
MusicScottish New Music Round-up: September 2023
September is packed to the gunnels with Scottish releases, with new records from Apostille, Lucia & The Best Boys, MALKA, Rachel Sermanni and more Read more »| 01 Sep 2023 -
BooksEleanor Thom on new novel Connective Tissue
We chat with Eleanor Thom, author of Connective Tissue, about tracing back her Jewish heritage, intergenerational memory, and the ability of literature to uncover untold stories Read more »| 01 Sep 2023 -
MusicNot Your Usual: Bee Asha Singh on The Gitika Project
Not Your Usual is a new series from The Skinny and Glayva highlighting interesting and exciting artists from across the Scottish scene. For our second instalment we catch up with Edinburgh multi-hyphenate Bee Asha Singh Read more »| 01 Sep 2023 -
MusicSpotlight On... neverfine
Ahead of releasing their debut EP Do Everything, Feel Nothing, we shine a spotlight on exciting new Glasgow trio neverfine Read more »| 31 Aug 2023