Optimist Club

In Depth

DiS Radio: DiScover Two

This special live preview showcases the best new artists playing Drowned in Sound's clubs and gigs in the month of September. Bands on this short one-off show include Cutting Pink with Knives, I Was a Cub Scout and Optimist Club.»

The Tuesday DiScussion: DiS's album picks for autumn

In Depth by ?

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...»

DiScover: Optimist Club

In Depth by Mike Diver

Ahead of the quartet’s headline set at the DiS-curated RoTa show, we caught up with Optimist Club's Bryn (vocals, guitar) and Jeion (guitar) to talk touring, drummers, aspirations and motherhubbarding punk rock...»