Scotland on Screen: Review of 2024 – The Skinny
Dec 10, 2024 · It's been a horrible year for arts funding in Scotland, but our film festivals and programmers continue to keep the scene vibrant with their rich and diverse curation and events. We speak to some of our favourites to hear their highlights of 2024.
The Cure album review: Songs of a Lost World - The Skinny
Oct 29, 2024 · Songs of a Lost World is a true return to the desolate beauty of their 80s heyday. The opening pair of songs, Alone and And Nothing Is Forever, could've fit neatly onto Disintegration with their lengthy introductions (vocals rarely appear earlier than two minutes into any song), the cinematic sweep of the keys and guitar, Smith's languishing laments, the way beauty is eked out of the darkest ...
The Outrun review: Saoirse Ronan is transcendent - The Skinny
Sep 23, 2024 · The bleak details of Rona’s destructive relationship with drink in London – her inability to call it a night, a habit of hiding bottles around her flat, the blackouts from which she wakes covered in cuts and bruises – are perhaps overfamiliar from other cinematic tales of alcoholism, but the scenes on Orkney are fresher.
Michael Kiwanuka - Small Changes album review: The Skinny
Nov 12, 2024 · Mercury Prize recipient Michael Kiwanuka, Sault’s resident maestro Inflo and the inimitable Danger Mouse reunite on Kiwanuka’s fourth album, Small Changes.The album angles to circumvent the temporal; a confident stride in classic songwriting and craftsmanship that gives way to yet another example of Kiwanuka and his collaborators upping their creative ante.
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Queer review: trippy Burroughs adaptation by Luca Guadagnino
Dec 9, 2024 · Craig has surely shaken the spectre of Bond with this twitchy, rakish and deeply compassionate turn. Lee cuts a pitiful figure in his various addictions, which extend beyond Eugene, but there’s also something beautifully endearing about his …
Remembering T in the Park - The Skinny
Apr 1, 2024 · Growing up in Scotland, you are likely to go through a series of events which could all fairly be described as rites of passage. These can include (but are not limited to) telling your parents you are staying over at a friend’s house when in reality you're drinking cheap vodka in a farmer’s field; standing outside the off-licence trying to convince strangers to …
TAAHLIAH - Gramarye album review: The Skinny
Oct 14, 2024 · While TAAHLIAH's 2021 award-winning Angelica EP focused on her physicality, channelling hyperpop production into its seven tracks, on Gramayre, the Glasgow-based artist showcases her artistic maturity.Blending glamour, emotive music-making, and vulnerability through pop-driven motifs, she's crafted an 11-track sonic soliloquy cathartically guiding listeners from the intensity of a 4am club to ...
Nina Nesbitt - Mountain Music album review: The Skinny
Sep 24, 2024 · Mountain Music is Nina Nesbitt’s fourth album and the first to be released on her own label, Apple Tree Records. For the Scottish singer-songwriter whose career began close to a decade ago when she performed Taylor Swift covers …
Spotlight On... Zoe Graham - The Skinny
Sep 19, 2024 · After releases in 2018 (Hacket & Knackered) and 2021 (Gradual Move Alterations), Zoe Graham returned with a bang earlier this year with the infectious, St. Vincent-indebted Evilin.A statement of intent, Evilin is gritty and full of attitude. Packed with sassy guitar embellishments, punchy brass and gurgling electronics, it's safe to say we'd never heard Zoe Graham sound quite like this before.