Articles

  • 2 weeks ago | theskinny.co.uk | Ellie Robertson

    We’ve wanted to spotlight synth-pop composer and femme witch Elisabeth Elektra for the longest time, but we've been waiting a while for the follow-up to her 2020 debut, Mercurial. Though her indie supergroup Silver Moth gave us the powerful and primordial Black Bay in early 2023, it was only at the end of that year, when Elektra dropped Broken Promises, that we saw her sophomore album’s first sign of life.

  • 3 weeks ago | theskinny.co.uk | Ellie Robertson

    From the nationwide acclaim of Bad With Names to the establishment of Sub Club regular Rebecca Vasmant’s own label (Rebecca's Records), it’s clear there’s been a surge in Scotland’s jazz underground over the last few years.

  • 3 weeks ago | theskinny.co.uk | Ellie Robertson

    There were marvellous records that we missed in the May column, like the intricate, prog-pop album Clients of Suddenness by Louise Connell, or pop-rock band Copper Lungs’ debut Broken Beautiful, the intimate acoustic EP Rent Is Due by Francis Bondd, the introspective pop of Erotic and Mostly Empty by Possibly Jamie and the gorgeous widescreen folk-rock of Glasgow outfit Lacuna's new EP What If I Told You I'd Been Lying the Whole Time.

  • 1 month ago | theskinny.co.uk | Ellie Robertson

    Film title: Castration Movie Anthology I: Traps Director: Louise Weard Starring: Louise Weard, Noah Baker, Aoife Josie Clements, Vera Drew, Release date: Out now Louise Weard’s hugely ambitious crowdfunded camcorder masterpiece is as visceral as you might hope for a film with a title like Castration Movie.

  • 2 months ago | theskinny.co.uk | Ellie Robertson

    GLOW Festival is the annual exhibition of Edinburgh College graduates' work across a spectrum of artistic disciplines. Every year, an emerging generation of artists display their work in venues across Edinburgh, and we couldn't be more excited to see what 2025 has to bring. Students from the Schools of Art & Design, Media, Music & Sound Production, Performing Arts, Computing, and Photography are sharing their projects with the public, and everyone's invited.