In Depth by Cate Blanche
Mike Lindsay’s love affair with Iceland began in 2006. It involved a girl, Harpa, and an unforgettable New Year’s Eve party. In 2011, Lindsay – best known as the frontman of Tunng – took to Iceland to rekindle that romance, and to record a bewitching new album under the name Cheek Mountain Thief inspired by the landscape and the people of Iceland. We asked him to document a day in the life of his new Rejkjavik-based existence...»
In Depth by Wendy Roby
This week I have reinstated the Singles Bike Ride system of appreciating music and then writing about it. I don’t know why I abandoned it. What a fool. »
In Depth by Luke Slater
Following on from last week's landmark playlist of much innovation, this week's summing up will also be innovative. Sort of. What I really mean is that it'll be different. Mainly because I'll be trying to sum each song up in as few words as possible. Click here to access this week's edition of Spotifriday and listen away.»
In Depth by Luke Slater
Back in March, London folktronicists Tunng released their fourth full-length album, ...And Then We Saw Land, which we reviewed here. We had a brief chat with Mike Lindsay ahead of the band's appearance at this week's Hop Farm festival about touring the new record, touring with African desert blues band Tiniwaren, the troubles on building your own studio and a few other things, like most of the stuff associated with festivals and that.»
In Depth by Luke Slater
A quick guide (of sorts) to this year's Hop Farm Festival including TWO Spotify playlists. »
In Depth by Wendy Roby
This week's dispatch is late because poor old Wend has been Unwell. And though it is not 'unwell' in the Jeffrey Bernard sense, we are going to talk about drunkeness. Also stalking, wisdom, Aladdin lamps and Zoetropes. Yay!»
In Depth by Dom Gourlay
Home counties based quintet Chapterhouse were one of the leading lights of the first wave of shoegaze. Initially formed in Reading back in 1987, they went on to release a clutch of critically acclaimed EPs not to mention the excellent Whirlpool LP, these days regularly cited by many of the current noise/lo-fi/nu-gaze bands as a major inspiration behind their very existence.»
In Depth by Sean Adams
DiS now does a monthly playlist for the Spotify blog and we thought we'd share this month's playlist right here.»
In Depth by Sean Adams
This pretty much is what it says up ^there^ in the headline: every week we take the week's content on DiS and compile some of the best bits as a Spotify playlist. Listen and read, it's THAT SIMPLEZ.»
In Depth by Wendy Roby
This week: a cheap joke at the expense of The Courteeners, some MZN Dram Rock from Muse (or, as my Mum says, 'Moo') and heaps of wondair plastic loveliness from Tunng, The Witch & The Robot and Yeti Lane.»
In Depth by James Skinner
Across the way at a sodden Field Day 2008 myriad delights abound; hustled close to the Adem-curated Homefires stage however, DiS braves umbrellas and rainfall to catch three fine performances»
In Depth by Mike Diver
Electronica-infusing folksters, or traditional musicians toying with modern machinery? Either way, Tunng’s fusing of elements rooted in history and those echoing a future yet to unfold completely has earned them an array of plaudits, and their third and latest LP Good Arrows is one of the year’s finest albums to mix mainstream appeal with avant-garde tendencies. DiS catches up with founder member Sam Genders...»
In Depth by Mike Diver
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...»
In Depth by Joshua Cole
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...
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In Depth by Mike Diver
Birmingham is wet. Really wet. I was splashed by a bus an hour or two ago and my jeans are still soaked; my girlfriend’s umbrella is offering no shelter whatsoever. And, to add insult to injury (for ‘injury’ read ‘dampness’), I’ve been stood in the wrong queue for something like 20 minutes. Welcome to Supersonic 2007...»
In Depth by Mike Diver
This weekend is a busy one on the festival calendar: in addition to the DiS-sponsored Dour (Belgium) and Summercase (Spain), there’s also Latitude in Suffolk. Expect to see plenty of DiS writers there if you’re scuttling along. This writer, though, will be in Birmingham for the always-excellent Supersonic Festival, now in its fifth year and this summer supported by DiS...»
In Depth by Shoo
One of the many things with which I struggle on my stumble through this hung-over farrago of protoplasm and pheromone-chasing called life, is defining exactly what it is that the radio show PMS does. What we’re there for, and why we do it...»
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