This week’s albums ft Liars, Gorillaz and High on Fire
Buon giorno! It’s Monday, streaming technology exists, let’s use some of it to listen to our albums of the week, shall we why not?»
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Spotifriday #36 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
It's time for another edition of the content-mangled-into-the-form-of-a-playlist that we amusingly dubbed 'Spotifriday'. We hope you enjoy it. It features the BEST sounds from this week's Singles, News, Reviews, and even a couple of tracks, as per usual, from the ever brilliant and increasingly popular armchair dancefloor column.»
A luvverly bunch: Archie Bronson Outfit's guide to Coconut
We love blues psyche primitives Archie Bronson Outfit's fine new Coconut album, and you should too. You should PARTICULARLY like the fact that they were arsed to make a video to every song. YOU DON'T GET COMMITMENT LIKE THAT THESE DAYS. And here they are, with accompanying words from the band's Arp Cleveland and Dorian Hobday.»
The Ruby Suns - Fight Softly
The new Ruby Suns album, Fight Softly, has the airy free spirit exhibited on their two previous outings. »
DiScussion: Choice Paralysis
DiSser Michael Wheeler ponders whether we should all calm down a little and consider a step or two back from the infinite jukebox in the cloud...»
armchair dancefloor 017 incl 10-20 mix
armchair dancefloor details the recent electronic releases it's most worth hunting down. In our opinion, that is. We're not god. This time we're also proud to include a mix from 10-20, who's sequenced a half-hour of his inimitable abstract techno solely for your enjoyment. »
Talkin' 'bout an evolution - DiS meets The Knife
The Knife’s Olof Dreijer discusses his dreams of Darwin and the downsides of frogs that sound too much like synthesisers. »
The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes are the Roaring Night
They sound ready to blanket the entire world in their shadow. »
Column: BBC 6Music, The Library and Me
DiS contributor Mike Wheeler on the day we heard the news that we may see the demise of BBC 6Music...»
This week’s albums ft Joanna Newsom, The Knife and Frightened Rabbit
‘Tis the first of March, and what a bumper first of March it is, albums-wise. SO ON WITH THE SHOW.»
Efterklang's track-by-track guide to Magic Chairs
Want to get the straight dope about Efterklang's new DiS-approved album Magic Chairs, out this week? Well, we asked the band, but sadly being Danes their English was awful and we had to scrap the whole thing. ONLY JOKING, the dastards probably have better grasp of our grammar than the entire UK indie population combined.»
DiS meets Los Campesinos! (Again!)
It's fair to say Los Campesinos! and drownedinsound.com go together like bread and jam. A combination of admiration and respect culminating in the band's recent editorial takeover week of this very site's content. »
Articulate Silences, Ambient Sounds #1
Hello and welcome to what will, with any luck, become a regular feature focusing upon ambient, drone and other assorted outsider transmissions. »
This week’s albums ft Efterklang, Quasi and MORE
Dzien dobry! Here in London, England, it’s a drizzly Monday indeed, and frankly we at DiS towers would be so despondent we’d contemplate checking out the film Precious - ‘just to see what the fuss was about, like’ - were it not for the magic of the sweet, sweet, sweet music, music that is legally available today. That said, we remain in moderate despair, as for once virtually none of the music we rate this week has made it to either we7 or Spotify. But we’re still not going to watch Precious.»
First listen: Gorillaz' Plastic Beach
Gorillaz' forthcoming third album Plastic Beach is a kaleidoscopic and typically adventurous affair. Damon Albarn... sorry 2D, and co (sigh) invited DiS to visit their 'secret floating island deep in the South Pacific' last month for an exclusive first listen of the album, as well as take a look around the huge model display of the beach - 'made up of the detritus, debris and washed up remnants of humanity' - itself. Here is a track by track guide of what to expect from the album when it is released on March 8th.»
The Insider: This column is exclusive to Drowned In Sound
Exclusivity in and of itself does, of course, make perfect sense in some situations. A magazine or radio station or tv show is hardly likely to cover an act if their direct competitors are given the same content to run the day prior or the same day. This is a landscape that, to some extent, everyone in the music industry is happy to cope with but the prevalence of extreme exclusivity demands in the past year or so is both mutating that original landscape into parody and harming both the artists and the very media that make such demands.»
OLUGBENGA from Metronomy on World Music
I've had 'world music' on the brain recently. Travelling around playing Metronomy shows in different countries, I've noticed a common phenomenon in pretty much every hotel room I've stayed in - that of a supposedly regional MTV channel playing occasional »
Guest Post: Why there’s no such thing as "the music industry"
'Music industry' veteran Steve Redmond's guest post...»
Efterklang - Magic Chairs
For this record is one which plays with the timbres of the orchestra: violins, cellos, trombones, flutes, anything, and does so successfully, utilising the sounds to make something that draws on music hundreds of years old, and music years old, to create something else. And for that, we can forgive it its minor, sporadic flaws. »
armchair dancefloor 016 incl Blue Daisy mix
On top of your regular round-up of the electronic releases it's worth directing your purchasing power at, Camden Town's Blue Daisy contributes the next installment in the armchair dancefloor mix series. He produced one of last year's most noteworthy debuts with his Space Ex/The Fall 12 (see ad008), and here he moves between tech house, dubstep, jazz-steeped beats and some extraordinary, exclusive Blue Daisy material. Enjoy it.»
Column: Drowned In Scary Monsters #7
I had hoped to begin this by wishing everyone a happy new year, but unfortunately it's taken me a few too many weeks to make a start and have therefore missed my window and crossed into the "it's February, it's just weird to say happy new year now" territ»
Field Music's track-by-track guide to Field Music (Measure)
So you like Field Music right? As in, you like them to the tune of about 2,000 words, yeah? Well in this case you'll be delighted by this truly epic guide to the band's 20/21-track OPUS Field Music (Measure)... and IN A TWIST the brothers Brewis will be offering their thoughts not on their own songs, but each others'... STRAP YOURSELVES IN, PEOPLE.»
Gil-Scott Heron - I'm New Here
Whether these 15 tracks have helped him lay some demons to rest is impossible to say, what’s beyond all doubt however, is that I’m New Here is a seriously good record.»
Yeasayer's track-by-track guide to Odd Blood
Okay, you’ve heard Yeasayer’s second set, Odd Blood, but are you entirely sure what the band are harping on about? The band’s Anand Wilder provides some clues to their future-pop odyssey with this here track by track guide.»
Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise
If you let it Black Noise might just change the way you listen to the world.»
Yeasayer - Odd Blood
Having given us time to prepare for the fact they’re quite the different band from All Hour Cymbals, Yeasayer Mk II have also given us time to realise that Odd Blood probably isn’t likely to go down as their defining statement, at least, not if they’re now scrapping at the genius table with the similarly influenced of Montreal and Dirty Projectors. »
Kesha - Animal
Overall Animal is a dumb album. Where it tries to be empowering and fun it comes off sounding like a spoilt brat singing the American Pie script through auto-tune. Not even the good American Pie either, the newest straight to DVD one’s. We’ll have to wait a bit longer for 2010’s pop voice because it sure as hell isn’t this.»
Midlake - The Courage of Others
That Midlake seem poised to break out with a record as dark, strange and bewilderingly out of step as The Courage of Others is a real victory.»
Hot Chip - One Life Stand
Heart/sleeve interface may be at record highs on this album, but only a cast-iron cynic would turn their noses up when the treats on offer are so lovingly prepared.»
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DiS joins the Music Alliance Pact + May 2013's global MAP compilation
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