Mathew Sawyer & The Ghosts

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The Great Escape 2008: the DiS review

From the archive... Amazing scenes on the south coast as DiS descends upon the annual beachside fest that is The Great Escape, catching the cream of its crop»

DiS's albums of 2007: reader voting is now open!

In Depth by Mike Diver

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»

The Weekly DiScussion: our albums of the year, so far

In Depth by Mike Diver

Six months into 2007 (almost...) and there’s already a not-so-proverbial shit-tonne of albums in contention for the coveted Album of the Year ‘gong’ at DiS – again, the winner will be selected by you, the readers, from a shortlist compiled by us. Yup.»

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Two sides of the same coin: different brilliance in the East End

In Depth by Kev Kharas

Still writing Two more dissimilar bands you'd never encounter. Put These New Puritans' rhythmic dynamism up against the plaintive yowling that haunts Mathew Sawyer and The Ghosts' last album and you'd own the intellectual property rights to new definitions of 'juxtaposed'.»

DiScover: Mathew Sawyer & The Ghosts

In Depth by Kev Kharas

Mathew Sawyer & The Ghosts are to be found in London most of the time. Their name is not a trick and their leader was born in Hammersmith in 1977. Sawyer has just masterminded the first Ghosts studio album, Blue Birds Blood, a collection of songs notable for their exceptional willingness to just be songs, and nothing more...»

A Month In Records: January 2007

In Depth by Mike Diver

January was cold. But for a few days it wasn’t, and we all feared London would flood when the rising sea level overpowered the wonder of modern technology that is the Thames Barrier. Then it got colder, still, and we remembered that The Netherlands will drown way before us. But all this talk of evolving into a race of webbed-limbed freaks is totally off the subject at hand, which is January’s finest long-play releases...»