Joe Creely

1 week ago | theskinny.co.uk | Joe Creely

Film title: Riefenstahl Director: Andres Veiel Release date: 9 May Certificate: 15 Leni Riefenstahl remains perhaps the most extreme example of the difficulties of sublime art made by awful people. On the one hand, you have one of cinema’s all time formal geniuses, a filmmaker of such dazzling invention that it would take decades for her contemporaries to catch up.

2 weeks ago | theskinny.co.uk | Joe Creely

Having been noise rock’s breakout band of 2022 with their anguished, bludgeoning interrogation of the contemporary American nightmare on God’s Country, Chat Pile are a band in the ascendancy. Reaching into more emotionally nuanced waters than their debut (which mostly sat between AHHHHHH and ARRRRGHHH on the feelings scale), last year’s follow up Cool World also broadened their sonic palette further into nu-metal, post-punk and straight up metallic chaos.

3 weeks ago | theskinny.co.uk | Joe Creely

Film title: Cloud Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Starring: Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa, Daiken Okudaira, Amane Okayama Release date: 25 Apr Certificate: 15 The latest film from Kiyoshi Kurosawa initially presents as a chilly satire of what the internet has made of us, particularly men. It follows Ryosuke, an online reseller who flips tat at inflated rates while working in a factory during the day. He's not an actively evil man; he’s barely actively anything – he’s just numb.

1 month ago | theskinny.co.uk | Joe Creely

Counterflows starts with a scream. A stop-start surge of a grinding, piercing sound somewhere between the internal monologue of a knackered old Dell and a tone that’ll be familiar if you’ve ever had a wasp trapped in your hoover. What we’re hearing is the combined forces of Weston Olencki and Laura Cocks, whose Music for Two Flutes makes for the opening of this year's festival.

1 month ago | theskinny.co.uk | Joe Creely

Album title: Gloria Artist: Dustin Wong Label: Hausu Mountain Release date: 1 Apr Dustin Wong’s guitar has sounded further and further from anyone else’s with every year of his venerable career. This is to the extent that you could easily think his last few records were the work of someone dealing more readily in the more abstract end of electronics than anything with strings. He pulls it back a little on Gloria.