In Depth
"At the moment there isn't a lot of good new music out there": DiS meets Diiv
This time last year, Brooklyn four-piece Diiv were something of an unknown quantity outside of their New York homebase. Having amassed a wealth of critical acclaim largely off the back of debut long player Oshin, Diiv found themselves recently asked by The Vaccines to support them on their long sold out UK tour. Before one of those shows, DiS caught up with Diiv frontman and songwriter Z. Cole Smith... »
Some Velvet Mixtape - The Sequel: 2012 in drones, reverb and feedback.
Looking back over the past year, it's been an incredible twelve months of music and here are forty reasons why pedal boards, tremelos and echo chambers rule. »
This Week's Singles 1.10.12: Alt-J, Pollens, Richard Hawley, Tilly & The Wall, Allo Darlin'
Single of the Week! Pollens - ‘Helping Hand’ (Tapete Records) ‘Helping Hands’ is a sound collage in the ma-ma-manner of Laurie Anderson’s earlier work - though I should point out; there are no benevolent Art Nutbags doing voiceovers on i»
Some Velvet Mixtape: 2012 so far in layers, loops, drones and noise.
Here then, with the second quarter of 2012 already underway, we bring you Some Velvet Mixtape, 35 of the finest artists and songs drenched in all things loud, heavy, dreamy and fuelled by reverb, distortion and feedback that have been keeping us awake at night (and day) these past few months. »
This Week's Singles: 12/03/12 Sharon Van Etten, Yeti Lane, Waters, Liz Green,
Single of the Week! Sharon Van Etten - ‘Leonard’ (JagJagJaguwar) Presented with a lyrics sheet for Sharon Van Etten’s ‘Leonard’, the words look prosaic. Shaker-simple, their plainness nearly verges on boring – especially when you cons»
Lost 10 of 2010 - #2: Beach Fossils Beach Fossils
Over the past few years, DiS has used the annual year-end 'listing season' to highlight a few of our writers favourite records that for one reason or another, slipped through the cracks and failed to garner the attention they deserved. In these increasingly fractious times, where amid a deluge of opinion consensus is hard-veering-on-impossible to find, records are increasingly lost but over the course of this week, ahead of next week's 50 albums of the year listageddon, DiS will be highlighting 10 records from 10 of our staff, in the hope that they finally find a place in a record collection or two... Here Dom Gourlay reveals his choice, where Brooklyn's adventurous underground takes a retrospective step back to eighties Bristol via Manchester and Glasgow to create one of the year's most understated albums.»
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