Spotifriday #26 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
More Spotify based fun, featuring Panda Bear, Frightened Rabbit, Liars, Hot Chip, Field Music, LCD Soundsystem, Hefner and a bag more.»
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Spotifriday #23 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's Spotifriday playlist, featuring Camera Obscura, Daniel Johnston, Four Tet, Liars, Kelpe, These New Puritans and a gaggle more.»
Drowned in Sunday: Papers? Pianos? Lover's Spit?
Sunday has various songs written about it and dedicated to it but almost all of them are downbeat dreamy affairs. Strangely Sunday has nowhere near as many songs written about it as Saturday but maybe that's because those who've already written songs about Sunday have pretty much nailed it? Most of this playlist touches on things you might do on a Sunday but it's mostly songs that give me the Sunday feeling. »
Shoegaze Week: Drowned in Shoegaze - 50 Essential Albums
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»
In conversation: Liars and Deerhunter
Strap yourself in for an epic: DiS sits Deerhunter's Bradford Cox down with Liars and lets the tape roll. The temperature soon rises»
The votes are in: DiS readers' top 25 of 2007
Cast your minds back, readership: at the start of November we invited you to vote for your favourite albums of 2007 from a shortlist of 50, selected by the DiS editorial team. Now we’re pleased to present the result of the thousands of votes received: the DiS readers’ top 25 albums of 2007»
DiS's features of 2007
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»
DiS's albums of 2007: 10-6
Part four of five, and pressure’s building. What record will scoop our Album of the Year title, and will its makers expect a reward for their efforts? We’re hoping not, as the budget's been blown, again, on booze»
DiS's albums of 2007: reader voting is now open!
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»
Liars: lost in Italy, lost in sound
Liars' Aaron Hemphill is, along with his bandmates, lost in Bologna. On the phone to DiS the guitarist talks about being a workaholic, and how the trio appreciates the acclaim that keeps coming their way»
A Month In Records: August 2007
August is meant to be hot, sunny. Y’know, summer. Didn’t quite happen, did it? In fact, this summer is the wettest on record, so I read in this morning’s paper. But the inclement weather hasn’t damped the spirits of the DiS review team any – we’ve had plenty of smashing records to keep our stay-inside selves occupied with over the last four-and-some weeks...»
Field Day: the DiS review
DiS sends five of its finest out east for the first-ever Field Day festival. On-the-day gripes aside - beer and toilet queues being the biggest thorn in the debut festival's side - in hindsight the bill was one of the best around this summer. DiS gets stuck into it...»
A Field Day Q&A: Tom Baker on London's newest festival
What’s that, looming on the horizon? Why, it’s another new festival, threatening to steal custom away from the other 3,459 day-long-or-more events clogging up the calendars of music lovers nationwide. But wait a second: Field Day is a) pretty blimmin’ special, and b) right on your doorstep. Well, so long as your doorstep’s in London, anyway. DiS’s is. Get in...»
Milk tooth tales: Liars discover their inner-child
Liars have a new record. In something of a departure from an act that brought you such classics as 'The Frozen Glacier of Mastadon Blood' and 'Tumbling Walls Buried Me In The Debris With ESG', it’s simply titled: Liars. DiS's Samuel Strang catches up with the trio in London to talk the perceptions and parallels of concepts and re-evolution. Or is that de-evolution...»
DiS is 6! Our 66, part 2
So here we are, fellow travellers through the last six years of DiS’s favourite sounds: part two of Our 66. Believe you me, this section – which collects together the albums we’ve placed at numbers 44 to 21 – was no easier to assemble than the preceding chapter (click here if you’re yet to look over our selections from 66 to 45). In fact, we’ve suffered more headaches over the last few weeks, because of this undertaking alone, than at any other time in our lives. Perhaps, anyway: we do enjoy the odd pint...»
The United Sounds of ATP, weekend one, a preview
It’s that time of year – the sun’s peekin’ its way past the outer fluff of the clouds, and pale-faced indie boys are thinking about takin’ off their tops. They won’t, of course – we’re too shy for that. Festival-wise, there is but one event that truly whets the insatiable appetite of the indie boy: All Tomorrow’s Parties...»
Liars in an unholy lair
DiS meets Berlin-based avant-rockers Liars in a strange London hotel: the hallways are chilled to penguin levels, while strange monitors flicker with computer-generated landscapes and scratches-on-a-negative static and fuzz. We're uncomfortable from the moment we stroll through the building's automated revolving door, but we find the band calm to the point of slumber...»
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