Release Reviews
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
If you fell down the disco rabbit hole into a synth-funk dominated Wonderland.»
30 Seconds To Mars - LOVE LUST FAITH + DREAMS
The guitars have been traded for synths, the melodrama hiked up to unbearable levels, and the palpable energy found on previous albums is glaringly absent.»
Come - Eleven: Eleven (reissue)
Though Come went on to make three more extremely good records before calling it a day, it’s Eleven:Eleven that makes their lasting statement - disturbing, uncool, and so fucking vital it’ll make you punch yourself in the neck in a frenzy of self-loathing and musical ecstasy.»
The Fall - Re-Mit
Re-Mit might not be the Fall record on which Mark E Smith finally relinquishes language altogether in favour of communicating in only a dry-mouthed hangover gargle, but it’s close.»
Small Black - Limits of Desire
The real problem with Limits of Desire is that it’s a decent album that’s difficult to sell. »
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
It’s rare songs this well imagined can create an album that is less than the sum of its parts.»
Cayucas - Bigfoot
Each cut is unashamedly pop, filled with chasms of reverb and joyous reels of melody.»
Various - Psychedelica 5
Psychedelica 5 contains something for anyone with any interest in psychedelic, shoegaze, noise or even just guitar music in general»
Mark Lanegan, Duke Garwood - Black Pudding
Although a quiet album, Black Pudding is not one that ever seems to tire, always remaining interesting.»
Dirty Beaches - Drifters/Love Is The Devil
Alex Zhang Hungtai aka Dirty Beaches has somehow managed to go the extra mile here...»
Dungeonesse - Dungeonesse
For all its glitz and shine, Dungeonesse feels slightly disingenuous – a rather contrived leap onto the 'summer of disco' bandwagon.»
R.E.M. - Green (25th anniversary edition)
Green sounds like innocence: a sense of youth and light and simplicity and clumsiness and play.»
She & Him - Volume 3
After four albums their coherency together is effortless.»
Sam Amidon - Bright Sunny South
With Bright Sunny South, Sam Amidon has taken a huge step forward as a folk artist, creating arrangements which preserve his musicianship, while deepening the maturity of his interpretive skills.»
Bibio - Silver Wilkinson
This is atmospheric mood music, an aural elixir for the pondering soul.»
Four Tet - Rounds (reissue)
To anyone who mocks the possibilities for bedroom production, give them a hefty spin of Rounds in return.»
Marques Toliver - Land Of CanAan
Despite Marques Toliver's illustrious CV and unconventional route to the release of his first album, Land of CanAan proves to be a competent, but disappointingly conventional affair.»
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
The new record by Vampire Weekend is the best alternative pop album you will hear this year.»
RP Boo - Legacy
The result of a very singular vision, one which has influenced pretty much everyone else in the genre’s sphere – up to and including Planet Mu boss Mike Paradinas himself»
Wampire - Curiousity
Curiosity is a surprisingly solid, professional affair, the haziness of the production aiding and abetting some excellent songwriting.»
Primal Scream - More Light
With Bobby Gillespie partly muted, experimentation back on the agenda, and a guru knob-twiddler at the helm, Primal Scream are back on form.»
Noah & The Whale - Heart of Nowhere
This is a lovely little record for folk fans who like a Seventies scuff.»
Van Dyke Parks - Songs Cycled
This music sounds wonderfully alien in an age of electronically composed pop music.»
Ghostpoet - Some Say I So I Say Light
Some Say I So I Say Light is the attempt to merge a lone voice into the black of the vast, surrounding landscape, and it succeeds absorbingly well.»
DiS joins the Music Alliance Pact + May 2013's global MAP compilation
Drowned in Bristol #12
DiS Does Singles 13.05.13: Swim Deep, These New Puritans, The National
Darkstar, Ed Harcourt, Halls, Wall +more for 3 DiS-curated nights at Great Escape 2013
Interview: Frank Turner on The Olympics, The Backlash, Thatcher and Black Flag
Drowned in Nottingham #14
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