In Depth
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Mixtape
Some Velvet Mixtape: 2012 so far in layers, loops, drones and noise.
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 nig... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 9/04/12 s/s/s, Trembling Bells, Bobby Conn, Slugabed, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Single of the Week! Trembling Bells & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - ‘I’ll Be Looking Out For Me’ from ‘Duchess’ EP (Honest Jons, snippet at around 1:03 below) ‘I’ll Be Looking Out For Me’ is a he-said, she-said. And like the best of its kind, each »
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Column
DiS Does Pop News Round-Up: 1st Quarter 2012
Three months is a long time in pop music. Long enough for Gotye to still be clinging onto radio playlists everywhere. To draw a line under this unfortunate occurrence and highlight the biggest pop stories that emerged from January to March 2012, we’ve only gon... »
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Drowned-Up
Moving Pictures: Videos of the Year - 1st Quarter 2012
Sam Hill, curator of the BBC's Music Video Festival, returns with his video picks of the finest music vids of the first quarter of the year featuring the likes of David Lynch, Grimes, Chairlift, Spiritualized, Factory Floor and many more... »
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Column
DiS Does International Pop: The 10 biggest singles you’ve never heard
Hello and welcome to a brand new spin-off from the commercially ignored and critically underrated DiS Does Pop. In the innovatively-titled DiS Does International Pop column we’ll be turning our ear for a Top 40 smash abroad and shining a light on the biggest hits fro... »
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Interview
"The best dressed band in England" - DiS meets Kenney Jones of The Small Faces & The Who
Kenney Jones is a name that shouldn't need any introductions. As a founder member of The Small Faces back in 1965, he helped pioneer the soul-infused sound that spawned the Mod movement and a host of groundbreaking records to boot... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 2/04/12 Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Ane Brun, The Dø, Guided By Voices
Single of the Week! Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - ‘Tapes & Money’ (Polydor Records) Orlando Higginbottom continues to make droopy disco that reminds me I should not be reviewing music sitting down. And though I am told ‘Tapes & Mone »
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Interview
The importance of sometimes being earnest – DiS meets Warren Ellis
Chris Hitchens, I gather, spoke in perfect sentences. Well then, Warren Ellis (of Nick Cave & the Badseeds and Dirty Three) talks in paragraphs. With three-second indents. »
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Interview
"I listened to 'Psychocandy' and it changed my life" - DiS meets The Lost Rivers
Meet Stuttgart's one and only exports of visceral noise rock, The Lost Rivers. The three-piece of Phil Wolkendorf (guitars, vocals), sister Izzy (drums) and Hell Pilot (bass) - or Hans Peter to his parents - have unleashed one of the most aggressivel... »
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Column
DiS Does Pop #6: Is Madonna still the Queen of Pop?
This month's pop column is a Madge-tacular affair which investigates whether the Material Girl is still top dog of the Top 40 brigade. There's also a Spotify playlist of her best bits plus our usual Top 40 Watch and Made For TV features. What are you waiting for? Go ... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 26/03/12 Veronica Falls, Jessie Ware, Retribution Gospel Choir
Single of the Week! Veronica Falls - ‘Come On Over’ (Bella Union) For the first 45 seconds ‘Come On Over’ is ‘Everybody Hurts’. After that it has some coffee, but at all times I love it, Veronica Falls just seem more accomplished at jangly heartb »
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Interview
DiS meets Mark Stewart from The Pop Group
Mark Stewart has operated at the forefront of unconventional, cutting edge and occasionally confrontational music for the best part of four decades now... »
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Festival Review
ATP Jeff Mangum: the DiS review
Two weeks ago Jeff Mangum's rescheduled ATP finally took place. And we had reviewers there and everything - but in tribute to the three month delay of the festival, we had a slight delay on the write up, which is here with you now, at last, sorry. »
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Interview
Life, Death and Broken Bells - DiS meets James Mercer (The Shins)
"It’s funny because ‘Simple Song’ is a very almost jubilant song, it’s very happy and I’m being very positive about some things in my life. And then there’s some real dark songs, like ‘Port of Morrow’, that song is just dark, it’s about how strange it is to be a huma... »
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Festival Review
SXSW 2012 - The DiS Review
Last week, Suze Olbrich ventured to Austin Texas for SXSW. Here is her report.... »
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Interview
"We want to challenge ourselves with every record we make:" DiS meets The Megaphonic Thrift
Norwegian four-piece The Megaphonic Thrift have taken the shoegaze and noise rock scene by storm in recent years. Hailing from the city of Bergen, The Megaphonic Thrift formed in 2007, its collective members having played in various other bands such ... »
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DiSection
Blood Red Shoes' track-by-track guide to In Time To Voices
On Monday, DiS' favourite guitar-thrashing, drum-thrashing, stage-thrashing, crowd-thrashing, duo Blood Red Shoes follow-up the Radio1-bothering Fire Like This with the release of their eagerly anticipated third album. Here, Steven Ansell wa... »
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Column
Drowned in Brighton #8
Record shops The end of the indie-vinyl-collectors-heaven-in-a-loft-space-shop Edge World is now official and in its place a new disc servery has sprung. Endless Records boasts racks of underground dance and guitar music sorted by the experienced, knowled »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 19/03/12 Kindness, T. Williams, Breton, Summer Camp
This week: Kindness, T, Williams, Summer Camp, Breton, Montage Populaire and some people who call themselves I.R.O.K. »
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Column
armchair dancefloor 034: Hyperdub, Pearson Sound, Fort Romeau, Evian Christ, Sculpture, LHF...
Drowned In Sound's electronic music column returns under new management... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 12/03/12 Sharon Van Etten, Yeti Lane, Waters, Liz Green,
Single of the Week! Sharon Van Etten - ‘Leonard’ (JagJagJaguwar) Presented with a lyrics sheet for Sharon Van Etten’s ‘Leonard’, the words look prosaic. Shaker-simple, their plainness nearly verges on boring – especially when you consume them on »
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First Listen
First Listen: Madonna - MDNA
"I've been to a couple of playbacks," comments one journalist after hearing Madonna's MDNA in full for the first time. "The louder they play the album, the more worried the record label tend to be about it." 'How loud was this particular listening sess... »
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Column
Articulate Silences, Ambient Sounds #12
A belated first column of 2012, and a belated best of 2011. Belated, but also justified (as far as these lists can ever be really justified) – four of the records below were released in the final two months of last year, and have unfurled slowly over the »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 05/03/12 Hooded Fang, Pinkunoizu, Allo Darlin', Saint Etienne, Batide
Single of the Week! Hooded Fang & Pinkunoizu - ‘Clap’ / ‘Parabolic Delusions’ (Split 7’ on Full Time Hobby) As we live in greedy times, I am not ashamed to tell you that split sevens, done well, are fast becoming my favourite format. Because »