Joe Creely

4 days ago | theskinny.co.uk | Joe Creely

Album title: Laini Tani Artist: Nadah El Shazly
 Label: One Little Independent Records Release date: 6 Jun It’s eight years since Nadah El Shazly’s debut, but her works since – particularly the astounding Pollution Opera with Elvin Brandhi – point to an artist still open to bringing in new sounds, one with a freeform approach to influence, intent on channelling as much as possible through her blend of experimental electronics and traditional Arabic influences.

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

Album title: Crooked Wing Artist: These New Puritans Label: Domino Release date: 23 May What’s immediately shocking about the new These New Puritans record is the absence of any great shock. For a band whose whole existence has been defined by instrumental about-faces, Crooked Wing and 2019’s Inside the Rosemakes for a stunningly logical jump; for once feeling like a sharpening rather than a total shift.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.