Desert Hearts

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Some Questions: Desert Hearts

Irish indie-rock outfit Desert Hearts first established themselves on DiS’s radar of goodness back in 2002, when they released their debut album Let’s Get Worse via Tugboat. Their second, Hotsy Totsy Nagasaki, was released in October. The band's Charley Mooney very kindly allowed us to probe him, rather, via the medium of Some Questions. Which was nice for us. Let’s hope he enjoyed it, too...»

The Tuesday DiScussion: DiS's album picks for autumn

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Autumn is, traditionally, something of a busy time for the industry: record labels race to release albums that, if delayed and distributed to stores in November or December, would almost certainly be consumed by the flood of best-of compilations and cash-in festive compact-discs filling shelves in the run-up to Christmas. Evidence of this is sat right in front of each office-based DiSser: mountains of records, far too many to ever get through completely, are piled here, there, everywhere...»