Release Reviews
Wild Nothing - Empty Estate
While this isn't Wild Nothing stalling, Empty Estate never coalesces into anything as confident as his previous releases, leaving the impression that for now he's running on the spot. »
Adult. - The Way Things Fall
The Way Things Fall is nasty as electro can get whilst maintaining a remnant of a reassuring pop edge.»
Thought Forms - Ghost Mountain
No-wave, drone, shoegaze, lo-fi, post-metal - the something-for-everyone Ghost Mountain is difficult not to like. But that’s also the reason it’s difficult to love.»
Laura Marling - Once I was an Eagle
definitely something that should be applauded – no matter how old the author is, and who she used to be friends with.»
Splashh - Comfort
A saccharine coated bundle of youthful exuberance wrapped in delicious halos of intoxicating reverb, ear-shredding fuzz and occasionally, pensive melancholia.»
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»
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DiS joins the Music Alliance Pact + May 2013's global MAP compilation
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