DiS is as pleased as Rihanna is at shacking up with a man who punched her face in, to premiere the band new EP from Luke Abbott. It's called Object Is A Navigator and it's released on 12" vinyl and digitally on the 10th of December 2012 on NOTOWN Recordings»
Hello! November has been quite busy hasn't it? Lots of records sneaking out before the year is out... and all the while we've been distracted at DiS HQ trying to work out what our albums of the year will be. Our countdown begins on Monday, but before all that, here's what we/I've been blasting at DiS HQ this month...»
There are a few who clearly didn’t get what they expected tonight. After all, this is a small tour of intimate venues (the bingo hall of a working men’s club in this case) ahead of a new album release. The point is to road test new material, right? Not just play four new songs, two of which you can find easily enough on YouTube?»
...With its infinite corridors, exploding noir detectives and backwards clocks, the whole thing is feverishly dreamlike and distinctly Kafkaesque. “Dave”, the “original” Bowie, travels through time, finding and confronting his various selves, alter egos and personalities. With a repeated motif of selecting one of his ID’s, it’s a Bowie who is facing all of himself, in the words of Soulwax “changing whilst remaining himself”. It brings to mind Todd Heynes’ Dylan biopic ‘I’m Not There’; a complex homage to a many faceted musician. In both cases, the male lead is played by a woman – Cate Blanchett’s weirdly attractive Dylan is not far from Hannelore Knuts’ portrayal of Bowie’s fragile, cutting cheekbone androgyny. Both Dylan and Bowie are notoriously media-savvy, which allows these unconventional interpretations offer an unusually deep insight; a stylised version of the mysterious reality.»
Following on from his interview with Marc Burrows, DiS is proud to premiere the brand new video for 'Drop Anchor', taken from from Martin Rossiter's astonishingly beautiful debut solo album, The Defenestration of St Martin.»
DiS' inbox is being pummelled with videos at the minute, but these at the pick of the bunch that we thought you might wanna fill your eyes and ears with... »
Oh dear it is Friday, and oh woe is me do I need a day off, but before I disappear into a bucket of ale, here is the best of what hit my (the editor of DiS') inbox this week...»
Following hot on the heels of our "Manics Monday", which featured a wealth of Generation Terrorists-related writings and ramblings to celebrate the 20th anniversary reissue, today we bring you the premiere of the brand new film for the spookily prescient track 'Nat West-Barclays-Midlands-Lloyds'.»
To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of its release, the Manic Street Preachers are re-issuing their legendary 18 track debut album Generation Terrorists this week. And you could win yourself a copy.»
Andrew Bird plays the Roundhouse in London this Thursday, the 8th of November. As a preview of the show, we’ve gathered together some of his videos from the last few years, including the brand-new ‘Three White Horses’.»
We've been invited to the attend the most prestigious music ceremony of year at London's legendary Roundhouse venue. Tune in as we live blog the shit out of it»
Iceland, land of snow-capped glaciers, lustrous beauty and for the next five days, one of Europe's best loved music.»
Roll up! Roll up! We have an extra special competition for a DiS reader and a friend, to sneak in to one of the biggest events of the music calendar to see some of this year's most talked about artists whilst suppin' some complimentary drinks.»
The best of DiS' inbox this week... »
Aerosmith’s one-time ‘toxic twins', Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, were in London last night to premiere their first full album in eleven years. The duo, who are older than time and have amazing hair, cracked jokes and answered questions about their career, their time off and fifteenth studio album Music From Another Dimension, released here on November 5th.»
Following a run of shows which seem to have left those who post in DiS' social media feeds somewhat breathless, and a teaser track about the Syrian civil war (they commented "We believe that tyranny and despotism suffered by any people, anywhere, is intolerable and should not be treated as an internal matter, but completely justifies intervention by the international community.") that was also dedicated to Pussy Riot, we're very proud to present you with a stream of the new album from those texan punk-rock&death&death&death&FUCKYOU&rollers ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead:»
DiS casts a glance over the last month’s music news…»
DiS has an exclusive album stream of the new solo album from Interpol's Paul Banks.»
There is a lot of music in this round-up, partly because I haven't done one for a while, but mostly because there is a lot of great music around at the minute (IMHO, etc). This column is basically a round-up of the best of my inbox and social media feeds... »
Last week, AIM (The Association of Independent Music) announced the nominees for this year's Independent Music Awards, and DiS thought it might be an idea to make a playlist to help guide you through nearly all of this year's nominees.»
DiS is compiling a playlist of 101 songs to act as an introduction to Electronic music. We're doing this, partly because we can, but mostly to celebrate the launch of a new magazine named Electronic. They've given us a big sack of Electronic records for one of you to win, just by taking part in our playlist folly and sharing your knowledge...»
DiS is very proud to present a brand new video for Scot disco-mathians Errors from their new mini-album. This is for the track 'Pegasus' and the video was done by Douglas Morland. It's one of 8 new videos which have appeared online today.»
We know September's not over, not over, not over yet! However, we have so many things that we're loving at the moment that we thought, instead of putting them all on single pages for you to flick through, we'd do what we have been trialling for the past few months and dump them altogether in one page that you can bookmark and come back to.»
Two Gallants have a new album out, and to promote it the petrol-soaked duo have a video for the first single from the album 'My Love Won't Wait' and HERE IT IS AS A SPECIAL DIS PREMIERE!»
All of us here at Drowned In Sound have engaged in something of a love-love relationship with Brooklyn sonic nihilists A Place To Bury Strangers ever since their self-titled first record landed on the doormat some five years ago. »
Of the remix album and this Liars re-jiggery, Andy MacFarlane, The Twilight Sad said: "We like to put out something that bridges the gap between releases, that will continue the theme and artwork. After the new minimal, synth led approach we did with 'No One Can Ever Know', it seemed fitting to follow up with a remix album, to continue in that direction. We've been big fans of Liars since 'They Were Wrong, So We Drowned', so we were really happy when they agreed to do a remix for the record, it puts a whole new perspective on the song."»
DiS is very proud to present a stream of The Sea and Cake's 10th - by our reckoning - studio album, plus a track-by-track guide to the record by Sam Prekop.»
Drowned In Sound's writers and board members select what they'd like to see on the hallowed shortlist come this Wednesday»
If you thought the A Winged Victory for the Sullen album was as wonderfully intense as most of DiS' staff did (well, we agreed it was our 16th favourite album of 2011), then hold tight, as we premiere their new video ahead of their dates on the Erased Tapes 5th Anniversary tour...»
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