Singles Round-up (16/06/08)
Complex rhymes and beats versus glitter Kraut? There's only one winner: Subtle have crafted our Single of the Week»
Complex rhymes and beats versus glitter Kraut? There's only one winner: Subtle have crafted our Single of the Week»
True mavericks are rare in modern music, but Subtle strive to create art in a very singular way. Adam Drucker talks new LP ExitingARM»
Among the fine selection of spring lambs to emerge in May, we've been bleating on about LPs from No Age, Bon Iver and The Futureheads»
In keeping with the spirit of the ATP Versus The Fans festival, here we present the experiences of three DiS writers as well as three fans. Here’s hoping they don’t put the ‘professionals’ out of a job...»
As we so rightly stated here, selecting the albums that make up DrownedinSound.com’s Our 66 was no easy task. A great many long-players were considered for many a day and week, only to be cut from the team at the very final moment. Here, we present to you a selection (in no specific order) of some of the albums that only just fell short of a starting place, that were tripped but a few yards from the finishing line...»
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...»