Hello and thanks for tuning in to another dazzling edition of the Drowned In Sound singles column. We've got synth-pop a plenty from Cold Cave and Big Black Delta, sombre indie from Cat Power and Woman's Hour, plus a new Deerhunter song that's appropriately shambolic. Please, dig in...»
DiS went to Latitude and this is what ruddy well happened (on Friday).»
Hey y'all - a week and a half ago, James Skinner, Andrzej Lukowski and snapper Burak Cingi went to the eleventh edition of a festival called Primavera; they have just about recovered enough to tell you their story, in words and also pictures.»
This week's Spotifriday playlist, featuring works from the likes of PJ Harvey, Roll The Dice, Vivian Girls, Connan Mockasin, Deerhunter...and then some! »
Welcome to DiS is Ten's 'Artwork Day'. How are you? Well, I hope. As the title suggests, there'll be some features on artwork: there'll be a good artwork top 10, and a bad artwork top 10. And then a couple of record label people are having their say, co»
This week's Drowned in Sound content-themed Spotify playlist, featuring Glasser, Deerhunter, Violens, Chrome Hoof and Gold Panda amongst many others.»
The 54th edition of This Week On DiS as a playlist, featuring Animal Collective, John Cooper Clarke, The White Stripes, These New Puritans, Yeasayer, Boredoms, Deerhunter and a few more for good measure!»
The honour of curating the first ATP of 2010 went to Simpsons creator Matt Groening, and despite it not being the busiest of ATPs in terms of punters, or brightest in terms of sunshine, no one can have many complaints about this year's line-up or the subsequent performances enjoyed over the course of the weekend.»
Bradford Cox may get all the plaudits, and the attention, but The Floodlight Collective showed the dazzling talent of Deerhunter guitarist Lockett Pundt. It's hewn from roughly the same cloth (the first ten seconds of 'Redoakway' sounds just like 'River Card'), wreathed in dreams and a certain hallucinatory timbre, but something here creates a stronger power. »
We genuinely can't recommend this enough for those who like their music Lynchian and lovely.»
It’s perpetually 1972 at Kutsher’s Country Club, the utterly perfect location for the New York incarnation of ATP. The event may attract several generations of indie rock fan, but for the people who run the resort this is no different to a local weddi»
Primavera Sound 2009 had one of the best bills we've ever seen, with an eye-boggling array of talent on offer. Here's what our intrepid writing team came back babbling excitedly about.»
Here's the highlights of this week on DiS as a Spotify playlist, with commentary from DiS' Editor...»
After a somewhat brutal weekend (musically and physically) at ATP Vs The Fans Part II, it was with some trepidation that DiS loins were re-girded for its sister weekend. But actually we had a quite lovely time; maybe it was the more cohesive line up begat from having a proper curator; maybe it was something to do with it being sold out; probably it wasn’t the uber-tetchy security (um, did they spend so long looking over the top of the girls’ cubicles as the gents’?); whatever the case, a fine weekend, and one of the better overtly indie editions.»
DiS has compiled a Spotify playlist of fifty hazy, ethereal, swooping, swirling, static-drenched albums from the pioneers of Shoegaze and the makers of Shoegaze 2.0»
Nathaniel Cramp has been running the increasingly successful Sonic Cathedral club night since 2004, before launching the record label two years later. Here, he discusses the merits of so-called "nu-gaze", and what the whole shoegaze revival means to him.»
We decree that 2008 belonged to the lone, computer-toting musician and a few good (guitar-wielding) people. Herein lie the records which we, the writers and regular readers, have spent the past twelve months lost in. These are the albums we found ourselves coming back to again and again... These are Drowned in Sound's 50 albums of 2008.»
August, then: a month of festivals, and all that entails (mud, booze, excess, tiredness, sleep - usually in that order) - but also a pretty good time for album releases based on this little lot»
Strap yourself in for an epic: DiS sits Deerhunter's Bradford Cox down with Liars and lets the tape roll. The temperature soon rises»
While some did Glasto, a handful of adventurous sorts headed to Norway's Hove Festival. Here: DiS's final thoughts, plus exclusive interviews»
We've presented our faves to date, now we're getting you excited about what 2008 is yet to reveal in full: our pick of albums coming your way»
It's day two at Hove Festival, and DiS brings word of Stars: the Canadians will never play Norway again, as too many people are having sex»
My Bloody Valentine's influence has never sounded louder, and as the pioneers return live DiS looks at five potential successors to their shoegaze crown»
It's the third and final day of Primavera Sound, and DiS has reached an unanimous verdict: this year > last year, by some margin»
There was us thinking that 2007 was a pretty splendid year for albums, and then we get a look at this little lot. Ahead of feature pieces outlining our acts of the year (to be), here DiS scans a number of upcoming releases»
We’ve had our albums of the year and our tracks of the year, and here DiS bids you adieu for 2007 with our favourite features of the past twelve months, for your instant-click consumption and eye-aching reading pleasure. Starring Animal Collective (pictured), LCD Soundsystem, Battles, Panda Bear, M.I.A., Gallows, Beirut, Björk and more»
Here we are: halfway through our top 25 of 2007 – we’ll be running through the full 50 come Friday, but breaking our very favourites into fives makes for a neatly week-shaped series of articles, don’t it?»
With Christmas now peeking over the horizon, DiS invites its readers to vote for your top ten of 2007, from our editorially selected shortlist of 50. Choose five of your favourites here. Voting, it will close this Friday, December 7, with the results running December 14»
With their second album Cryptograms a certified DiS favourite of 2007, we catch up with Deerhunter to discuss the quintet's rise to wider attentions this year after such turbulent beginnings»
Aaaah thee long weekend: a chance to frolic in fields and set fire to paper cups or read the newspaper with a nice cuppa green tea. You may notice we’ll have our feet up too, so consider this blog-like list of stuff DiS Founder Sean Adams is digging, as something to tide you over ‘til we’re back on Tuesday.»
This instalment of our regular DiScover podcast – let’s call it DiS Radio: DiScover five – finds Sean and Mike playing some top-quality tracks from up-and-coming types alongside a handful of ace songs from bands doing DiS things soon. Like tours. And shows. Mainly tours and shows...»
DiS went to South By Southwest t’other week. Perhaps you saw our amazing preview content? Touch wood. While there we did some stuff – you know, stuff – but between sessions of stuff doing we saw some bands. Some good. Some great. Some neither. Some best left unmentioned. You won’t read about them here...»
Here we are, then: day five of our South By Southwest preview, and part four of our picks for your attention. Another four from the sea of many hundreds playing Austin, each pulling cards from sleeves and jumping through hoops for a few column inches in the British press. Seems a bit much for some sucker at Magazine X to give a month-long f*ck about you, doesn’t it? But far be it for us to highlight the fickleness of this whole process, ‘cause these bands are the business...»
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