"Real men don’t play the piano!"- DiS meets Alan Sparhawk from Low
Ahead of the release of new album The Invisible Way, Low frontman Alan Sparhawk talks egoless songs, piano hatred and his favourite albums from the band’s 20-year career...»
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Artist Lists: Antlers, Cut Copy, Destroyer, Aidan Moffat + more share their Five Favourite LPs of '11
We've shown you our albums/singles/etc of the year, so we thought it only fair to share the favourite five albums of some of our favourite musicians of 2011... we've also embedded a few tracks so you can get a taste of some of these records.»
Singles of the Year 2011!
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! »
La Route Du Rock 2011, Saint-Malo - The DiS Review
DiS’s journey to La Route Du Rock 2011 begins aboard a ferry out of Portsmouth, where it’s roughly 2am, and I’m trying my absolute best to grab a precious ounce of sleep. Unfortunately, what with the fellow sat opposite me working overtime to see if he can successfully self-inflict a brain hemorrhage by way of snoring alone, and my own brain working overtime to try and discover what sort of karmic retribution had been dealt unto me in my having to witness an hour of seizure inducing ferry cabaret, I’m dragging my feet across St. Malo port the following morning having had next to no shut-eye.»
Poland's OFF 2011: the DiS review
DiS returns to the Primavera of the east.»
Spotifriday #98 - This week on DiS as a playlist ft. The Horrors, Destroyer, Low + more
This week's Spotifriday playlist featuring The Horrors, Destroyer, Zomby, Low, The Besnard Lakes and a few more. »
This Week's Singles: 04/07/11 Low, Metronomy, Bright Eyes, Hype Williams
By the time you read this I will be in Fronce, speaking Fronch. Sexy.»
Drowned in Chicago #3: Summer 2011 Edition
Summer in Chicago, the crown jewel in the diadem of the American Midwest, is all about the music festivals.»
Spotifriday #86 - This week on DiS as a playlist ft. Deerhunter, Kate Nash, PJ Harvey
This week's Spotifriday playlist, featuring works from the likes of PJ Harvey, Roll The Dice, Vivian Girls, Connan Mockasin, Deerhunter...and then some! »
Low C'mon Track by Track
Alan Sparhawk talks us through the tracks behind Low's new album, C'mon.»
"I really don’t believe in the myth of insanity...": DiS meets Alan Sparhawk from Low
Ahead of the release of Low’s long-awaited new album, C’mon, (released today)DiS were invited into Alan Sparhawk’s hotel room in West London for a chat about how it all took shape. With guitar in hand, Alan was tempted to sing his responses, Ziggy Marley-style – but in the end decided to just talk. And boy, did he talk...»
Mixtape Monday: 10 Songs That influenced Mogwai by Stuart Braithwaite
Kicking off our takeover week from the gentleman from Mogwai is this 10 songs that influenced Mogwai mixtape by Stuart Braithwaite...»
DiS meets Alan Sparhawk from Retribution Gospel Choir and Low
With the release of the second Retribution Gospel Choir album, Alan Sparhawk’s “side-project” from Low looks set to become an equal partner. As ever, the deceptively simple music manages to be as powerful as Neil Young & Crazy Horse or Iggy & The Stooges without being a re-tread of either. DiS caught up with the man himself...»
Slowcore Week: Fifteen Years of Chairkickers Music with Low (part 2)
Part Two of our profile of Low, covering the albums and events of the years 2001 - 2008»
Slowcore Week: Fifteen Years of Temporary Relief, with Low (part 1)
In an early interview, from 1996, Alan Sparhawk joked that Low originated from an idea to make the slowest, most depressing music possible (“…and then I thought “Cool!”). As one of the longest-running bands still (reluctantly) tagged "slowcore", it's fair to say this week wouldn't have happened without them...»
Snowed in? DiS presents its playlist for a day of the white stuff
FROM THE ARCHIVE: Originally posted Feb 9th 2007... So there’s me, in bed, still in that delightful state of being neither fully awake nor out cold, and the girlfriend’s leaping about and the curtains are open and it’s all “snow snow snow” and the radio newsreader’s telling me not to travel unless I really have to and I’m desperate to drift off again but before I know it the duvet’s off and I’m marched to the kitchen window to gaze at a garden smothered with six inches of the stuff...»
End Of The Road 2008: The Review
It’s a testament to End of the Road organisers Sofia Hagberg and Simon Taffe that not even the festival’s most professionally melancholy acts could contain their merriment at playing amongst peacocks, enchanted forests and parrots in the beautiful Larmer Tree Gardens»
Øya Festival: the DiS blog, part three
Fatigue’s taking its toll, the money’s all but gone – no use denying it, DiS is in dire need of a kick in the pants.»
Øya Festival, Oslo: the DiS preview
Deep into the bloated innards of the festival season and DiS is headed in a north easterly direction to Norway – again - this time for the arrestingly-titled Øya Festival in Oslo...»
ATP Weekend One: The Dirty Three: the DiS diary...
DrownedinSound.com went to All Tomorrow’s Parties’ The Dirty Three-curated weekender at the end of April. We arrived full of excitement, bubbling like freshly poured pints of £3-a-pop lager. Then we drank too many £3-a-pop lagers and fell over the garden furniture outside our chalet. Loudly. And annoyed our neighbour. Sorry...»
A Month In Records: April 2007
April is over. Done. Dusted. During the last month some might fine records – albums, or CDs, if you will – have been released. As is sort of regular, here we collect together our pick of the bunch. These are April’s finest releases, as assessed by the ears of the ever-reliable DiS review team...»
DiS is 6! Our 66, part 1
Let the DiScussing begin! We’ve been racking brains – prior to pulverising each other’s – at the DiSopolis these past few weeks to come up with our top 66 albums of the past six years; the very best records to see the light of day during DiS’s lifetime (yes, six years). Arguments have been won and lost, a handful of frankly incredible artists have improbably missed the cut through forgetfulness and space constraints, and we’ve all got quite, quite drunk along the way...»
ReDiScover: Low
Jordan Dowling takes a retrospective look at the career and music of Low; through obscurity, The OC and their trademark drawn-out chord changes and melody.»
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