DiS' editor runs through the year's most read, as well as his favourite things published on DiS, and elsewhere, in 2011. Plus a competition to win a subscription to the brilliant Stack magazine club.»
The top multi-platform games of 2011, featuring Batman: Arkham City, Crysis 2, Skyrim and Portal 2.»
We've shown you our albums/singles/etc of the year, so we thought it only fair to share the favourite five albums of some of our favourite musicians of 2011... we've also embedded a few tracks so you can get a taste of some of these records.»
Welcome to the final DiS Does Pop of 2011 and in Smash Hits style we’ve made this one a bumper edition. Should you cast your eyes below, you’ll find the DiS Does Pop Awards, our Christmas Gift Guide, a preview of the festive Number 1 contenders, a playlist of our favourite tracks from the year gone by and a pleasantly surprising Straight To TV. So go on and gorge yourself on some pop goodness, we won’t tell anyone.»
Singles for wallowing, singles for solace, divvy singles - just for larks - and singles that have the frisk quite bad. It's Drowned in Sound's Top Singles of 2011! »
Having seen nearly one thousand bands throughout 2011, whittling this list down to just ten performances proved a nigh-on impossible task. However, after much deliberation and soul searching discussions with friends and acquaintances, here in no particular order (bar the first one, natch) are what I consider to be the finest ten performances these tired and weary eyes and ears have witnessed this year. »
Admittedly this is clearly not quite as "lost" as the rest of this year's other Lost 11 picks (it's at #20 in our year-end, for starters!), it's an album which doesn't seem to have quite connected, for whatever reasons, with our staff. DiS set John Calvert the task of arguing its case, in which he goes as far as to say it's North America's answer to Let England Shake»
The countdown of DiS' albums of the year reaches a climax but before reveal our five favourite albums of the year, here are some words from the site's founder and current editor..»
We hatched a plan for Ghosting Season to interview Curtis about the use of music in his films, but it remained just an idea until the band sent a few emails, and a week later, found themselves on the other end of a phone line with documentary maker Adam Curtis.»
Drowned in Sound's albums of the year countdown continues... »
As 2011 groans to a close, our In Photos editor has picked his favourite photos of the year. It isn't so much a numerical list, more a visual sample of some of the great shots we've run last year. And once you make it to the bottom, you'll see a little competition.»
Drowned in Sound's albums of 2011 countdown continues, as does the ponderneering on the year that was from our editor...»
Drowned in Sound’s top 75 albums of the year countdown starts here. But first, DiS founder and current editor, has his annual ponder about the year that was..»
It seemed appropriate, then, to use this final transmission from me as an excuse to take a look backward through some of the year's more obscure/less widely distributed album releases in the electronic music spectrum. It's hardly intended to be comprehensive, more a chance to take personal stock of the year gone by and offer some recommendations to people bored with the stagnant homogeneity of most mainstream mags/websites' end of year lists. So here's an armchair dancefloor top 10: ten records that deserve your undivided love and attention, and warrant careful (and very loud) listening. I hope you find something worth loving in here.»
This week, we'll be counting down DiS' favourite 75 albums of 2011, with our top 5 revealed on Thursday. Before we do so, we thought you might find it interesting to see what each of our staff members named their number one record of the year.»
This mixtape-like selection is a failed attempt to try to sum up the sounds that have throbbed through me while I've worked, walked and woozed off to sleep. This is less of a playlist and more like the confetti of a year in music.»
Before we announce our albums of the year, we thought we'd spend twelve days building up to it with lists and giveaways.»
Here, you will find all five-parts of Kevin Perry's fascinating feature with Björk, in which they talk about education, about feminism and Lady Gaga’s outfits, about why she’s like 'carrot soup and tequila' and Coldplay are like 'chips and sausages', about political activism and aluminum mining and even about the lack of punk spirit in proprietary software, a topic she acknowledges she probably shouldn’t talk about. We've compiled all the parts here so that you can read it all in one go or save it to your Kindle/phone using a text-only tool like Instapaper or Readability»
This is an ‘urban’ ‘pop’ record made to fade in the background in lobbies and cafes, and, yeah, mandem-mandem, squawk, squawk. Whateverz.»
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