In Depth by Robert Leedham
Hiya. It's time for your weekly dose of singles, tracks and amorphous offerings that have been uploaded to the internet. Washed Out, AlunaGeorge, Siblings, Deap Vally and Everything Everything have all been kind enough to contribute to your listening pleasure below. They're good like that.
Dornik also revealed himself to the world on Friday, leaving just enough time to grab Single of the Week with the wonderfully amorous 'Something About You'.»
In Depth by Robert Leedham
Welcome back to a brand new edition of DiS Does Singles. This week: Nine Inch Nails have 'done a Jay-Z' and returned from retirement. Poliça have done a collaboration and hooked up with the bloke from Bon Iver and Hot Chip have done a one-off single that's sensationally good.»
In Depth by Robert Leedham
This week we take a glance at the latest turbocharged singles from Icona Pop, Run The Jewels, Disclosure and TV Colours. Their relentless BPM-rate should send you on an energy rush that will last until precisely 4pm»
In Depth by Robert Leedham
Hello. It's time for another DiS Does Singles and we've got some old friends to welcome back into the fold. Known to no one as 'the muso Daft Punk', Boards of Canada have returned from the ether to treat us to a brand new song that you can listen to upon the Soundcloud.»
In Depth by Robert Leedham
This week Camera Obscura have penned a royally good track about unrequited affection, Laura Marling has harked back to her new folk guise with a Bruce Springsteen cover and Book Of Love are here with their first ever single of winsome retromania. Also, Paramore have scooped Single of the Week. I apologise for nothing.»
In Depth by Robert Leedham
Hello there. Glad to have you onboard the good ship DiS Does Singles. You join us for a splendid week of tracks, songs, ditties and whatever else you care to call a joyous snippet of recorded sound.
Featured in this here column are yet another Brummie band. Not Peace, Jaws or Temples but this time Swim Deep. There's also new stuff to listen to from These New Puritans, The National, Editors, Mariah Carey, The Love Language and Oliver Wilde. Go on, treat yourself. It's a Monday.»
In Depth by Robert Leedham
You know how most singles columns are about cheerful things like space age electro-pop and how terrible the new Nicki Minaj track is? This one’s not like that, although the new Nicki Minaj track is terrible.
This column is about Vampire Weekend’s ‘Ya Hey’ and my personal recollections from the days when I used to love Jesus. »
In Depth by Robert Leedham
Hello and welcome to another edition of your favourite singles column on Drowned In Sound. It's the week after Record Store Day, which means I hope you got that David Bowie vinyl you were after and the supply of brand new singles is a little depleted.
The upshot of this is that there was room to squeeze in a cheeky Phoenix remix and Jessie Ware's cover of a 90s R&B anthem. That's in addition to already brilliant tracks by Classixx, Daughter, Dutch Uncles and The Pastels. Also, will.i.am's Justin Bieber collaboration is revealed to be pure woe.»
In Depth by Robert Leedham
Hello. Welcome to Drowned In Sound's weekly digest of the best tracks to be released over the past seven days. On Friday, I was feeling a bit sorry for all the bands who weren't Daft Punk and had recently shoved out a song for you to listen to. Then I realised that Savages, Snakehips, Big Deal and several others had also unveiled some sublime offerings. Obviously, Daft Punk got Single of the Week but it was a close-run thing.»
In Depth by Robert Leedham
Hello and welcome to a brand spanking new edition of DiS Does Singles. It's been a busy seven days for track releases with Jessie Ware, The National, Bibio and several significant others all vying for 'Single Of The Week' status. A word of warning about the Cat Power video: have a pack of Kleenex to hand before pressing play. It will slay you.»
In Depth by Robert Leedham
Hello and thanks for tuning in to another dazzling edition of the Drowned In Sound singles column. We've got synth-pop a plenty from Cold Cave and Big Black Delta, sombre indie from Cat Power and Woman's Hour, plus a new Deerhunter song that's appropriately shambolic. Please, dig in...»
In Depth by Robert Leedham
It's that time of week again when we distil the greatest hits of everyone-with-a-record-out-this-week into a column of singular brilliance. Included in this smorgasbord of tunage are a resolutely ridiculous emo-pop outfit, a trio of sisters from LA and singer-songwriter from New York. The Strokes are also from New York; their new single sounds like they can't bothered any more. The feeling is mutual.»
In Depth by Robert Leedham
This week's DiS Does Singles stars Peace's 'Follow Baby', Vampire Weekend's 'Diane Young' and an Azelia Banks song that's so dreadful it has to be heard to be believed.»
In Depth by Robert Leedham
We talk about how Rustie needs a mug of Horlicks, Dan Michaelson needs a hug and Sean Paul needs to away. Forever.»
In Depth by Robert Leedham
Wendy Roby is departing from the Drowned in Sound singles column. We asked her to answer a few questions after four years in charge.»
In Depth by Wendy Roby
Wendy's last column for DiS, in which she attempts to impart some old-lady wisdom about the music industry.»
In Depth by Wendy Roby
Single of the Week!
Sticky feat. Lamahra Starr - ‘Cutting Shapes’ (Big Dada)
People say to me*: 'How do you decide which single is empirically best each week? I mean, they are all so different, it must be so hard.' And I say to you, my intern»
In Depth by Wendy Roby
Single of the Week!
Melt Yourself Down - ‘Fix My Life’ (The Leaf Label)
Jazz kaleidoscopes, man, everybody's gawpin at 'em. And you need to be gawpin at 'em too if you wanna be hip to Melt Yourself Down - who believe that every hook should be»
In Depth by Wendy Roby
Of this week's single of the week, Wendy says: ".. this appears to be a song about how utterly boring life can be when you throw your lot in with someone else and discard all the spontaneity of early romance; it has lines about how Sweet Baboo is pleased that you categorise his life into 'little tiny piles', even though he still wants you to go and do something crazy - even though that's not How You Live. It also has a pleasingly original and internet-now video, that marries campy memes and real feelings even though you really shouldn't be able to do this. Basically, I put it on and then just grinned at it for the whole of its nearly-five-minutes."»
In Depth by Wendy Roby
Single of the Week!
Darwin Deez - ‘Free (The Editorial Me)’ (Lucky Number)
Ludicrously-curly tunesmith Darwin Deez has a knack, and it is almost aggravating to hear him manipulating us again, with his bloody melodies and his wretched happines»
In Depth by Wendy Roby
Single of the Week!
Randan Discotheque - ‘Grandad's Coffin’ (The Bonjour Branch)
I don't just love Randan Discotheque's Craig Coulthard for his Forest Pitch project, nor do I only love his band Randan Discotheque for their (perfect) concept s»
In Depth by Sean Adams
Wendy Roby is sickly, so you have to deal with me, your grumblin’ editor, for this week’s rundown of the latest digital downloads and sparkly seven inch singles. »
In Depth by Wendy Roby
Single of the Week!
Golden Teacher - 'Dante And Pilgrim' (Optimo Music )
Golden Teacher aren't messing about, which is why the entire vocal performance of 'Dante And Pilgrim' is snarled in jerky French - or saccadé française if you want to be a »
In Depth by Wendy Roby
Single of the Week!
Teleman - 'Christina’ (Moshi Moshi)
The Guardian have called 'Christina' erotic - a fusty choice of words that puts me in mind of naughty etchings designed to provoke the nethers of those too squeamish for actual, haitch-dee»
In Depth by Wendy Roby
The best singles from 2012, plus a Spotify playlist!»
In Depth by Wendy Roby
Single of the Week!
Ned Collette & Wirewalker - 'How To Change A City' (Fire Records)
'How To Change A City' took an unforgiveably long minute to get going, and when it did, it put me (happily) in mind of Young Americans-era Bowie. But it's »
In Depth by Wendy Roby
Single of the Week!
Sleepin' Giantz - ‘Mucky’ (Tru Thoughts)
'I love Rodney P enough to read his entire Wikipedia page' does not really cut it as a compliment, but I did and I do - few can do menacing excitement as well as he. Fallacy & Z»
In Depth by Wendy Roby
Single of the Week!
Ossie feat. Tilz - ‘Ignore’ (Hyperdub)
As you might imagine, 'Ignore' is about not being on speakers with your boo, no matter how many times they bother your telephone. "I don't mind, I like the chore, you chasing me daily»
In Depth by Wendy Roby
Single of the Week!
Pure Bathing Culture - 'Ivory Coast' from ‘Pure Bathing Culture’ EP (Memphis Industries)
Sometimes it only takes one perfect line, and one perfect melody to which that line is sung, to make you fall for a song. I feel like»
In Depth by Wendy Roby
Single of the Week!
Omega Male - 'Testosterone' (Full Time Hobby)
Lecherously low slung, 'Testosterone' includes the sound of sirens going off - as if a particularly manly cove had passed through a sexy airport detector, and broken it by sheer »
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