Yndi Halda

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Slight return: DiS's tips for 2007 reprised

This time last year DiS was outlining its tips for the following twelve. Next week we’ll be doing similar – bringing to your attention the bands we think will matter in 2008 – but before we get stuck into the future, let’s dwell upon the past a little»

The Weekly DiScussion: just what is a 'DiS band'?

In Depth by Mike Diver

Do you think of The White Stripes, Battles, Radiohead etc as ‘DiS bands’, or has the site’s highlighting of a select group of smaller acts from time to time made them ‘ours’ in the place of major label alternatives»

Label Focus #8: Big Scary Monsters

In Depth by Gareth Dobson

Oxford-based Big Scary Monsters is one of those fine things: a proper independent label that has spent the past six years releasing many a varied record sure to delight most listeners. Gareth Dobson puts the tough questions to BSM founder Kevin Douch, and gets nothing but love back...»

Yndi Halda: acerbic introspection, home and abroad

In Depth by Mike Diver

Canterbury five-piece Yndi Halda create some of the finest instrumental music - call it post-rock if you must - that Britain currently calls its own. Comparisons to the likes of Sigur Rós and Explosions In The Sky give the know-nothing a vague idea of their supreme hold on the listener's emotions, but really: theirs is a sound that's quite stunningly affecting. DiS questions the band ahead of this weekend's DiScover Club show...»

A Month In Records: January 2007

In Depth by Mike Diver

January was cold. But for a few days it wasn’t, and we all feared London would flood when the rising sea level overpowered the wonder of modern technology that is the Thames Barrier. Then it got colder, still, and we remembered that The Netherlands will drown way before us. But all this talk of evolving into a race of webbed-limbed freaks is totally off the subject at hand, which is January’s finest long-play releases...»

DiS's Tips for 2007, Part One

In Depth by Mike Diver

Here we are, then: each of us a year older, and each of us a little wiser as to what’s great about music, and what sucks. 2007 holds within its twelve months many a musical treat; here, DiS exposes just a handful of them, with more to follow in Part 2. Foals, Gallows, I Was A Cub Scout and Youthmovies are detailed here, alongside many weird and wonderful more...»