Single of the Week! Here We Go Magic - ‘How Do I Know’ (Secretly Canadian) ‘How Do I Know’ is infectiously plotted, it has the sort of urgent tempo, quietly chugging bassline and itchy keyboard lines that put you in mind of blinking strob»
Single of the Week! The Magnetic Fields - ‘Quick’ (Domino) No one captures the ecstasy of romantic torment quite like The Magnetic Fields. And though there is no better song to sing after a right royal dumping than ‘I Don’t Want To Get Ov»
Single of the Week! Patrick Watson - ‘Into Giants’ (Domino) On ‘Into Giants’ Patrick Watson is not messing about, not one toy is getting left in the cupboard. And it is all quite overwhelming, there being so many things here worthy of not»
Single of the Week! North Atlantic Oscillation - ‘Soft Coda’ (Kscope) Some bands can get away with lyrics as vague as fog. North Atlantic Oscillation are one of those bands, which is why it is alright that their amiable, button-pushing, bomba»
Single of the Week! Tashaki Miyaki - ‘Tashaki Miyaki Sings The Everly Brothers’ (For Us) You could argue that a deathly pale, k-hole-occupying, curtains-drawn approach to a cover version is no different or less calculated than wanging your la»
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 bes»
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 &»
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 j»
This week: Kindness, T, Williams, Summer Camp, Breton, Montage Populaire and some people who call themselves I.R.O.K. »
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 cons»
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 forma»
Single of the Week! The Magnetic Fields - ‘Andrew In Drag’ (Domino) When there are bands in existence who can write lines like ‘I’d sign away my trust fund, I would even sell the jag / If I could spend my misspent youth, with Andrew in dra»
It seems to me that late February is when singles start to get really interesting. And all those smart (or fortunate) enough to have avoided the inanity of new year tip lists pop up their heads, sleepy eyes washed of their clag. Hooray for nearly-Spring, if it results in a week as choice as this one.»
DiS' editor fills in for Wendy Roby and names The Kills single of the week... »
Single of the Week! Fucked Up featuring Jim Jarmusch, Annie-Claude Deschênes & Austra - ‘Year Of The Tiger’ (Matador) Fucked Up are going on an adventure. And as adventures require a great deal of planning and preparation we shall forg»
Single of the Week! Deerhoof feat. David Bazan - ‘No One Asked Bazan To Dance’ from ‘DeerBazan’ 7” (Polyvinyl) Mr. David Bazan is a new one on me but it is definitely love, he has so much heartbreak in his gob it is like so many marbles»
Single of the Week! Charlotte Gainsbourg - ‘Anna’ (Because Music) This week is a compound week in which at least three of my musical prejudices have been tickled out of their hidey-hole. Charlotte is the one with the longest arms, however, her»
Single of the Week! Pushy Parents - ‘Secret Secret’ (Elefant) Pushy Parents are dirty cheats and magpies - in actual life they are a) dead old and b) Swedish musicians Amanda Aldervall, Roger Gunnarson, Daniel Jansson and Johann Emmoth. But fo»
Single of the Week! Darkside - ‘A1’ from ‘Darkside’ EP (Clown & Sunset) The strange thing about music criticism is its insistence on keeping guitar clichés well out of any discourse that concerns originality. So stand back, bec»
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! »
In the last column of 2011, we take in some seasonal songs and the last dregs of indie at the bottom of the bottle. Stick some vodka in, Granny won't notice. »
Single of the Week! Roots Manuva feat. Spikey Tee - ‘Here We Go Again’ (Big Dada) Though Rodney’s voice has the confidence of someone who has been around the block enough times to wear grooves in the stones, he never sounds laden. Less»
Single of the week! Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - ‘Senator’ (Domino) Only someone with a voice as neatly pressed as Stephen Malkmus could get away with a refrain of ‘What the senator wants is a blowjob’, and not have it feel like a chil»
This week's Single of the Week is top ten, pointless end-of-year list material. It is AMAZING.»
Single of the Week! Factory Floor - ‘Two Different Ways’ (DFA) The Machine spat out some interesting words for ‘Two Different Ways’, and for once it was not all overtawk and overpromise; for once I was reading a thing about a song and fin»
Single of the Week! Africa Hitech - 'Do You Really Wanna Fight' (Warp) Africa Hitech are good for many reasons, the primary one being that their entire song is an inducement to stand down, pick up your gauntlet and stop being a fighty div. It has »
It is Halloween: boo, spooky things. But there is only one novelty single: yay, progress.»
Roby is roaming the Irish countryside, so Jazz Monroe has stepped in to do(!) this week's singles...
So then, this week’s is a column of maternal murder, hyper-specialist musical terminology (“staccato”!) and waaay too many exclamation marks.»
This week: blog-raged 'Hollywood sadcore' (shutupshutupshutup), Aidan Moffat doing Bananarama, Django Django not putting a foot wrong and Connan Mockasin forging his own, peculiar path. And some other things. »
Single of the Week! Colin Stetson - ‘Those Who Didn’t Run’ (Ltd 10” on Constellation) I was always told the saxophone was the hardest instrument, which may be true. But I think it is more likely that this was said to we young, eager musicia»
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The Cribs - In the Belly of the Brazen Bull
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