Arriving on the UK hip-hop scene with a disarmingly youthful voice and intimate vocal style that’s had hacks spouting the word ‘confessional’ like they’ve just invented a new adjective, 26-year-old South Londoner Speech Debelle is way more than a simple rapper.»
Yes! The Mercury Prize judges have come to a final conclusion, after all has been seen, done and heard and the winner is...Speech Debelle»
Will she? Won't she? She is?! Why is she?! Yes, it's that time of year again where everyone gets pent up about the Mercury Prize before claiming that they don't really care much for it anyway. Mostly. And who is the favourite at this stage to claim the coveted prize? It's Florence + The Machine of course, for her/their album Lungs.»
It's that time of year when everyone in the indiesphere leaps onto the high horse of telling everyone else what is wrong with this year's Mercury Prize shortlist, charges round the racetrack of rigorously protesting how uninterested they are by said list, leaps over the fence of stating the obvious about some of the nominees not being that famous, and then probably heads off for a good feed in the stables of pointing out that M People won it once. So let's do that.»
Now, with a Glastonbury performance best described as ‘defining’, it appears that Florence will be as unstoppable as her machine.»
It may not seem like the most sensible way to play to 200 people, but Friendly Fires are performing a show on Monday in complete darkness. Too many questions arise from this. Is there a risk of a guitar being accidentally shoved into unwanted places, for example? Bum notes indeed. We spoke to the Friendly Fires' Jack Savidge about the logistics of it all, their preparation for Pitch Black and a second album.»
As the year of re-evaluation and ultimately re-invention, 2009 has left perennial ladrockers Kasabian in something of a quandary...»
Born to a middle-class South London Jamaican family, Speech Debelle’s genesis has been one defined entirely by herself, purposef»
With our journalistic curiosity piqued, DiS recently picked up a phone and rang The Horrors' Tom Cowan (aka: Tomethy Furse) in order to shed some light onto what lies behind those dark exteriors.»
All eyes are once again on The Horrors, and this time it’s not just the usual hyperbole prone culprits salivating in anticipation. Even typically level-headed critics are getting into a frothy mess over the sounds emanating from the black clad quintet’s sophomore LP, Primary Colours.»
DiS attended an advance listen to forthcoming album Lungs, checking out what precisely Florence Welch and her Machine have been cookin’ up with producer James Ford. It’s fair to say we were a little surprised.»
_Though she doubtless pines nightly for the days when Bat For Lashes was signed to Drowned In Sound records, it has to be said that Natasha Khan has done alright for herself since BFL's debut single 'The Wizard' emerged three years ago. »
Two Suns is, predictably enough, absolutely not more of the same – an artist like Khan cannot justify repetition in her work, such is the personal drive to expand the palette. It’s a bolder affair than its predecessor, a fact made instantly apparent when opener ‘Glass’ explodes into percussive life like nothing that’s come before it in its maker’s canon»
Matthew Herbert-endorsed, TV On The Radio-compared - The Invisible also emerge with a musical pedigree about as interesting as you could feasibly imagine. Crucially, they've got some tunes in their arsenal too.»
After years of rag-tag imitators, two bands are proving that home-brewed British pop is firmly back. In part one of this bands-eye-view of their debut albums we heard from Late of the Pier. For part two, we hand you over to Friendly Fires whose self-titled debut is already a contender for album of the year»
Credit should be given where it's due, and the fact that Glasvegas appear to have stumbled upon much of their sound by accident makes their achievements all the more startling.»
Thankfully Friendly Fires haven’t been too tarnished by the endless glow stick paradigms associated with the now dreaded nu-rave tag, and their laboriously recorded, self-titled debut only serves to confirm the burgeoning distance from a world of garish neon and questionable colour combinations.»
Friendly Fires are Ed Mac, Edd Gibson and Jack Savidge. Their new single, 'Paris', is our current Single of the Week, mixing as it does "danceable elements with this sort of lushness". DiS finds out what's next for the much-tipped St Albans trio»
The first part of a mini-serialisation about touring as part of a band... the band of Martin Grech.»
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