When meeting Gruff Rhys it’s hard not to break out in a face-achingly large smile – this is, of course, a man responsible for some of the warmest melodies this side of the 21st century under a multitude of guises: Super Furry Animals, Neon Neon and his own solo career. »
The (nominees were announced on DiS yesterday](http://drownedinsound.com/news/4137495-dis-alternative-music-prize--the-neptune-nominees-announced) but before you rate the albums, we thought you might like to listen to all of them. You've got until 8th of September to vote so take your time, form your opinion and then score them out of 10. »
I've been hearing people talking up Rockness as better than T In The Park. One cursory look at the line-ups for both festivals will tell you this isn't true, at least in the quantity and sheer size of artists playing, but what Rockness can boast is an atmosphere to match TITP in scaled down format, with a greater emphasis on DJs and dance acts. The organiser's boast that it is 'the most beautiful festival in the world' is entirely vindicated by the picture postcard view of Loch Ness and the lush glen spreading out behind the main stage, with the weather mostly brilliant sunshine.»
Here's what the musical gods offered us in April 2009...»
Ever the innovators, whenever Super Furry Animals push their personal envelope, two things are guaranteed: refreshing explorative insight and a loveably bumbling outcome. And it’s all here as the increasingly hairy Welsh fivesome gently poke downloading wisdom with their live day-of-release webcast show playing ninth album Dark Days/Light Years in its entirety.»
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...»
A couple of weekends ago, DiS ventured to Wales to brave the incessant downpour for the sixth annual Green Man Festival. Here's some of what we saw»
DiS is getting more and more excited about the sixth annual Green Man Festival - here, we pick five must-see acts playing over the weekend»
Held on August 15-17, the Green Man Festival features one of the best bills of any of the summertime weekenders. Founder Jo Bartlett speaks to DiS»
It's that time of year. DiS plunges its fearless critical balls into the icy waters of the festive singles glut, and emerges full of the joys of the season. Ish. Honestly, what would the baby Jesus think of some of this crap? Shaun The Sheep? Eeek»
It's 4pm on another sunny afternoon in Madrid, and DiS is nervous. Why? We're only about to interview Super Furry bloody Animals, one of our favourite bands, like, ever. Or, rather, you are. Ish»
Send one DiS writer to the first-ever Connect festival? We think not. Here, three intrepid festival-goers – Jordan Dowling, Dom Gourlay and Dave Kerr – bring us their experiences of three days that can only be summarised as: a muddy festival in Inveraray, Scotland. With some ace bands, as it happened…»
August is meant to be hot, sunny. Y’know, summer. Didn’t quite happen, did it? In fact, this summer is the wettest on record, so I read in this morning’s paper. But the inclement weather hasn’t damped the spirits of the DiS review team any – we’ve had plenty of smashing records to keep our stay-inside selves occupied with over the last four-and-some weeks...»
Having seen them some 27 times, Gareth Dobson writes the article of a (his!) lifetime: why Super Furry Animals are the most consistently brilliant band of a generation. DiScuss? Hop on the super pop...»
Music and drugs. They go together seamlessly, flawlessly and as happily as two intricately linked things. Gareth Dobson takes a fistful of mushrooms from Camden Market and mulls over whether rock n roll is seriously a lot better for all the crap that's been imbibed.»
DiS's Joshua Cole takes in the Lovebox Weekender: Is a ‘London festival’ a contradiction in terms? I mean, where’s the camping? Where are the flooded tents and ever-rising pools of liquid shit? And where’s that dawning sense of What The Hell Have I Let Myself In For Again... »
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...»
While I’m not too sure dressing yourself as a collective of six feet dog men is entirely befitting of a group of men easing into their thirties and probably old enough to know better, it certainly isn’t out of character for the Super Furry Animals. Regular tales of love, death and heartache have oft be»
Ankst – now morphed into Ankstmusik – has always been an extremely important label that has showcased many bands of super quality alongside some truly original artists. Perhaps the label’s heyday came with the launch of acts such as Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and Super Furry Animals in the mid»
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