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This Week's Singles: 06/02/12 Fucked Up, Mount Eerie, Disclosure, The Dø
Single of the Week! Fucked Up featuring Jim Jarmusch, Annie-Claude Deschênes & Austra - ‘Year Of The Tiger’ (Matador) Fucked Up are going on an adventure. And as adventures require a great deal of planning and preparation we shall forg»
DiS' Favourite Albums of 2011: 49-21
Drowned in Sound's albums of 2011 countdown continues, as does the ponderneering on the year that was from our editor...»
Iceland Airwaves 2011 - The DiS review
There is just something about Iceland. In reality it is not one single thing but a combination of them, from the people, the weather, the city of Reykjavík and, above all, all of these distilled in a few days in the middle of October that make up the annual Airwaves festival. Although 2011's edition was marked by several performances of Björk's Biophilia at the resplendelty and long-awaited Harpa Music Hall, it's quite arguably not what Airwaves is about. That said, every festival is helped by a "marquee" performance or two and Sinead O'Connor made an appearance, too.»
End of the Road 2011: the DiS review
Kate Hutchinson gets folked up and out at End of the Road this year… »
Drowned in Toronto #2
Alongside the likes of Egyptrixx and Art Department; Azari and III are spearheading Toronto dance music in 2011. Their blend of classic house and disco, shot through a modern production aesthetic, has taken them around the world, and their debut full length on Loose Lips Records is imminent... plenty more post-"blog house" tips from our man in Toronto contained herein... »
Spotifriday #90 - This week on DiS as a playlist ft. Björk, Fair Ohs, Spoon + more
This week's Spotifriday playlist featuring Marissa Nadler, Fair Ohs, The Phoenix Foundation, Bowling For Soup and a handful more.»
This Week's Singles: 09/05/11 Here We Go Magic, Christian AIDS, Austra, Planningtorock
This week I sat down and listened to the whole of Emerson Lake and Palmer's Tarkus. On purpose. On the basis that nothing else on earth could ever be as dread, JAZZ or ackfing noodly, every song catalogued here deserves to win a really, really good prize. But we only award one - which goes this week goes to Here We Go Magic. They wouldn't make a whole album about an abominational half-armadillo / half-tank creature; they wouldn't call a song 'Bitches Crystal'. STUPID, STUPID, BLOODY PROG.»
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