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Some Velvet Mixtape - The Sequel: 2012 in drones, reverb and feedback.

In Depth by Dom Gourlay

Looking back over the past year, it's been an incredible twelve months of music and here are forty reasons why pedal boards, tremelos and echo chambers rule. »

Drowned in Sound albums of 2012 best top favourite

Drowned in Sound's Favourite Albums of 2012: 25-6

In Depth by Sean Adams

DIS' albums of the year countdown continues... What does your end of list say about you? And what does it say about 2012 that this isn't considered the most nauseating question imaginable? »

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Half-Year: DiS' Most Read Articles, Reviews and Threads of 2012 (so far!)

In Depth by Sean Adams

DiS' most read features, reviews and messageboard threads of the first half of 2012... »

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"We love being in a band" - DiS meets School Of Seven Bells

In Depth by Marie Wood

Two years ago, Claudia Deheza (vocalist/keyboardist) abruptly left SVIIB in the middle of a US tour due to 'personal reasons' leaving her sister Alejandra Deheza along with Benjamin Curtis to continue alone. This could and should have broken most bands, but it proved to strengthened Alejandra and Ben bond and galvanise their ambition. A profound sense of release coupled with the band for the first time being in the same head-space, School Of Seven Bells embarked on unified goal of making the record they'd always wanted to make: Ghostory. »

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Some Velvet Mixtape: 2012 so far in layers, loops, drones and noise.

In Depth by Dom Gourlay

Here then, with the second quarter of 2012 already underway, we bring you Some Velvet Mixtape, 35 of the finest artists and songs drenched in all things loud, heavy, dreamy and fuelled by reverb, distortion and feedback that have been keeping us awake at night (and day) these past few months. »

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Spotifriday #55 This Week on DiS as a playlist

In Depth by Luke Slater

Another edition in our weekly round-up of things what appeared on the website in the form of a Spotify playlist»

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This Week's Singles: 19/07/10

In Depth by Wendy Roby

Do you see how, even when I am bumbling about at Latitude, still I Bring The Singles? SEE HOW DEDICATED I AM! You people are all part-time, or something. Let's have a fight about it. »

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DrownedinSound's Singles of the Year: 2009

In Depth by Wendy Roby

I have chosen 100 singles I really do implore you to get your sticky mits on. If I had had to put them in order I would have had a breadvan, so I am sure you will excuse the absence of cheap - and vaguely pointless - countdowning. »

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ATP My Bloody Valentine: Sunday

In Depth by Andrzej Lukowski

Girding their loins with steely determination, Andrzej Lukowski and Dom Gourlay set their sites on this year's third UK ATP of four. Not a classic edition, it must be said, but a solid - and very noisy - entertainment nonetheless. Here are terrible things that our reviewers saw.»

My Bloody Valentine, ATP 2009 Nightmare Before Christmas by Leah Prichard

ATP My Bloody Valentine: Friday

In Depth by Andrzej Lukowski

Girding their loins with steely determination, Andrzej Lukowski and Dom Gourlay set their sites on this year's third UK ATP of four. Not a classic edition, it must be said, but a solid - and very noisy - entertainment nonetheless. Here are terrible things that our reviewers saw.»

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Spotifriday: ID:09 Special - 20 Must-Have Independent Albums of the Year (SO FAR!)

In Depth by Sean Adams

Based on a range of factors, from board discussions, reviews so far this year and utterly subjective personal opinion, DiS' editor has compiled the twenty best independent albums of the first half of 2009 to coincide with Independent's Day.»

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Review: The Great Escape, Brighton (Saturday, 16th May)

In Depth by Alexander Tudor

Alex Tudor talks us through his highlights of The Great Escape festival...»

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In Photos: School Of Seven Bells/Telepathe @ DiScover Sheffield

In Depth by Rob Webb

School Of Seven Bells and Telepathe on the same bill? Yup, that's right - and a sold out DiScover Sheffield lapped it up.»

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ATP Vs The Fans Part II: The DiS Review

In Depth by Andrzej Lukowski

DiS's Dom Gourlay and Andrzej Lukowski descended upon the first UK ATP of '09 like two gods of yore. Sleep probably being what the gods of yore would listen to had stoner metal been around in yore. But enough musings on divinity: here's our high and low p»

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Shoegaze Week: Label Focus # 25: Sonic Cathedral

In Depth by Dom Gourlay

Four-and-a-half years ago, Nathaniel Cramp started a clubnight amidst a London scene still hanging off the remnants of The Libertines grotrock coat tails that was to raise more than a few eyebrows. Sonic Cathedral: The Night That Celebrates Itself was responsible for giving UK audiences their first opportunity to see the likes of The Radio Dept. and School Of Seven Bells, whilst simultaneously providing a platform for shoegaze luminaries such as Mark Gardener and Neil Halstead to relaunch their solo careers in more familiar surroundings.»

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Shoegaze Week: "There’s no such thing as Nu-Gaze" by Sonic Cathedral

In Depth by Nathaniel Cramp

Nathaniel Cramp has been running the increasingly successful Sonic Cathedral club night since 2004, before launching the record label two years later. Here, he discusses the merits of so-called "nu-gaze", and what the whole shoegaze revival means to him.»

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DiS meets School Of Seven Bells

In Depth by Rob Webb

DiS loves School Of Seven Bells. Their debut LP Alpinisms hasn't been far from our stereo these past few months, its ethereal, textured majesty a true warmer on those dark winter nights. DiS speaks to guitarist Benjamin Curtis about recording the album, laying the ghost of his old band to rest and also about his obsession with the Slowcore movement.»

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A Month in Records: February 2009

In Depth by Rob Webb

The post-Christmas slump has well and truly subsided, or so it seems. February was a wonderful month for records, particularly in comparison to December and January's relatively meagre pickings.»

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The Singles by The Lipster 16.02.09

In Depth by Wendy Roby

With a dizzying surfeit of noises from Passion Pit and Empire of the Sun, this week’s singles might also be evidence of the coming Spring, were a lot of these records not actually available last summer. Something needs to be done about release dates, then, and everyone apart from School of Seven Bells could do with some sort of red-pen-wielding, aural editor.»

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DiS' Class Of 2009 #9: School Of Seven Bells

In Depth by Sean Adams

Fans of Broadcast, Electrelane, Ladytron, Au Revoir Simone and lushgaze acts like that: I do hope you're reading this, as Brooklyn's School Of Seven Bells have been rummaging in those closets full of Velvet Underground drones, My Bloody Valentine haze and throwing in some electronic(a) sounds for good measure.»