The countdown of our favourite albums of the year continues... Hopefully you will find something amongst our yearendageddon that you haven't had chance to check out or invest some more time with over the festive break. If you click on the writer names after each of these review fragments, you can read the full-length reviews. »
There's this wuhwuh-woah (M83), a woooo-OOoooo-ooooo-ooooh! (Yeasayer...or FUCKYEAH!-sayer as they will henceforth be known), and an ODB-inspired crowd going urrr urrrRRRrre uuhrrrrrrrr (Chilly Gonzales), swirling around inside my head. That's not to mention the whirl of actual words from Sharon Van Etten's 'Leonard' which are still swaying in and out of my consciousness. That's the soundtrack, and twirling around in the cinema tent in my mind is all these arms aloft making heartshapes (through Metronomy's set) and triangles (during Alt-J) and a sea of young pale hands, tapping morse-code patterns while pointing as pixels, trying to pop the beats, as plumes of sound zoom over head (at pretty much at every show with synths). »
As you enter the festival grounds through the main entrance you pass through a series of coloured banners emblazed with song titles. It feels appropriate that ‘Teenage Wasteland’ greets you with a campsite awash with abandoned tents sprawled out like castaway boat sails – and this is on the first day. However, it’s also clear that everyone is determined to have a good time and if you need a constant beer jacket to make a mud bed bearable then needs must.»
Hello, and thanks for tuning into the eighth edition of DiS Does Pop. The pop column which judges Cheryl Cole on a purely musical basis, only to be pissed off with yet another shite solo album. This month we were reading Simon Reynold's Retromania and thought, 'There's far too much here on Throbbing Gristle and far too little on Take That'. So we decided to investigate the wave of pop nostalgia that has arguably reached its peak in 2012.»
Single of the Week! Trembling Bells & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - ‘I’ll Be Looking Out For Me’ from ‘Duchess’ EP (Honest Jons, snippet at around 1:03 below) ‘I’ll Be Looking Out For Me’ is a he-said, she-said. And like the bes»
DiS' editor reflects on the month that was and introduces a new monthly feature which includes our album of the month, streams of the month and a Spotify playlist....»
With the hype maelstrom surrounding Lana, Emeli and the other ones now entering forgettable levels, we thought it would be a good idea to discover the worst possible way to launch a new artist. That’s right, we analysed the ‘next big flops’ of recent memory and most noticeable chart trends of last year to deliver our verdict on how not be a popstar in 2012.»
Singles for wallowing, singles for solace, divvy singles - just for larks - and singles that have the frisk quite bad. It's Drowned in Sound's Top Singles of 2011! »
This week's musical round-up, featuring music from Ben Frost, Lana Del Rey, My Brightest Diamond, Spectrals, Surfer Blood and a few more, to boot. »
This week: blog-raged 'Hollywood sadcore' (shutupshutupshutup), Aidan Moffat doing Bananarama, Django Django not putting a foot wrong and Connan Mockasin forging his own, peculiar path. And some other things. »
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