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»
Single of the Week! Magic Bus - ‘Magic Bus’ (Static Caravan, snippet here) I have only heard the first half of 'Magic Bus' because Static Caravan are traditionalists, they want you all to leave your bloody houses and stand at the counter of yo»
Single of the Week! Nautiluss x Lord Skywave - ‘Ultraviolet’ / ‘Bleu Monday’ (Hemlock Recordings) Naturally, when a person is faced with two dudes sassy enough to call themselves Nautiluss and Lord Skywave, one has certain - rather fix»
In case you were wondering and even if you were not, music's current most popular tropes are: 'Tom Petty', 'Jonathan Richman', 'Angelo Badalamenti', 'Bristol circa 1993' and 'Sounding As Bored As Possible'. No, no, no, no. You are welcome. »
Single of the Week! Summer Camp - ‘Better Off Without You’ (Apricot Recording Co / Moshi Moshi) On ‘Better Off Without You’ (and if you can forgive the unfortunate expression) Summer Camp pull off having it both ways. Raging smartarses, th»
This morning’s crisp sunshine can only mean one thing; it is Autumn, which is the season in which everyone in music releases a single at the same time, in a vain attempt to get their hands on your money before Father Christmas comes around to suck it all up with his elephantine, capillary-busted hooter. »
Having played The Proclaimers marvellous second album with concomitant and obvious accordance to Musical Law (Thou Shalt Play Side One, Track Six, Ten Times, Before Thou Playest Any Of The Other Songs), it is hard to enjoy this week’s selection without the following – thoroughly unhelpful - question light-bulbing in my woman-mind. ‘Yes, but is it Sunshine On Leith?’»
Reviewing music is, of course, inherently ridiculous and often it feels as if one is being expected to stand beneath a tightrope walker and silently will them to fall (with your arms folded). Even so, I cannot help being still more disappointed that we li»
Single of the Week! Battles feat. Gary Numan - ‘My Machines’ (Warp) ‘Welcome to the sound of now,’ sings Gary, even if he does say ‘toe’ for ‘to’ and ‘mashaynes’ for ‘machines’ on the chorus in the singular way only h»
So many releases make this a log-jam week - so in an uncharacteristic display of 'not wanting to be unfair to music' I have included links to ALL the videos. »
This week's selection includes Joan As Policewoman, Toddla T, Roots Manuva, Bibio, Apparat and My Tiger My Timing. And a funk workout with some overblown flute on it. »
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