Release Reviews
The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
For now, The Knife remain steeped in shadow, as subliminal and unknowable as ever. »
Crime and the City Solution - American Twilight
Sometimes you have to hand it to the old hands. »
The Black Angels - Indigo Meadow
Austin four-piece The Black Angels have been at the forefront of the neo-psychedelia movement for the best part of a decade.»
Hey Colossus - Cuckoo Live Life Like Cuckoo
Cuckoo Live Life Like Cuckoo is Hey Colossus taking their past, screwing up the rule book and cackling like lunatics. »
Giant Drag - Waking Up Is Hard to Do
Waking Up Is Hard To Do is a record that’s ultimately come out sunny side up; it takes the familial raucous reverb, bittersweet melodies and sardonic wit of the Giant Drag's debut and imbues it with a new sense of clarity, 60s pop hooks as well as oh some calypso jazz. »
Bonobo - The North Borders
The North Borders is as ambitious a record as its predecessor, and it’s just as successful. »
Hurts - Exile
For a band like Hurts ambition isn’t ugly - it’s profitable.»
British Sea Power - Machineries of Joy
Machineries of Joy sounds so contented is its Achilles’ heel. British Sea Power are audibly putting their feet up and asking you to stick the kettle on. Why not pour yourself a whisky and head out instead?»
Willy Moon - Here's Willy Moon
Will Willy Moon be the master of reinvention, and this album mark his Fifties phase heard through the ears of a hip hop head? Can he release something next time around that is captivating rather than catchy?»
The Flaming Lips - The Terror
A brave, difficult and experimental album, The Terror reminds us that there’s more to The Flaming Lips than glitter bombs and dancing bears.»
Purling Hiss - Water on Mars
Purling Hiss's next release might be a whole ‘nother curveball, but Water on Mars is a treat on its own terms.»
Harper Simon - Division Street
The fact is that Harper Simon sings and plays like Elliott Smith – there’s no escaping that – but while purists may cry foul they’ll be missing out on a talent capable of some pretty wonderful feats of atmospheric songwriting.»
Steve Mason - Monkey Minds In the Devil's Time
Politics can often waylay even the best musicians, but it seems to have the opposite effect on Steve Mason here, inspiring him to create some of his finest and most thought-provoking material.»
Various - Trance OST
The guest tracks here show off Danny Boyle’s eclectic vision, and as usual, Rick Smith answers it in style.»
Haiku Salut - Tricolore
Haiku Salut aren't your stereotypical band. »
Soap&Skin - Sugarbread
The bar has been set high, but if this is any indication of what can be expected from Soap&Skin's next, as-yet unannounced album, it’s worth getting excited. It’s worth getting very excited.»
Lapalux - Nostalchic
Nostalchic is an album full of lush sonic textures, but also one bursting with hooks and, most importantly, feeling, too.»
Wire - Change Becomes Us
A project that began as a re-appraisal of early material from the late Seventies, Change Becomes Us features an array of unreleased and previously unrecorded tracks which featured in Wire’s live sets throughout that time.»
Bon Jovi - What About Now
A band that still have plenty to offer when they stop playing to the middle ground.»
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Specter At The Feast
The days when Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would vie for front page headline space with The Strokes and Oasis are long gone.»
Peace - In Love
There’s nothing wrong with a bit of Nineties revivalism, but there’s a point during Peace’s debut album where it starts to get ridiculous.»
The Strokes - Comedown Machine
The Strokes will never get back the raw magic of Is This It? but, with Comedown Machine, they’ve cast a different spell entirely – one that’s almost joyful. »
Heterotic - Love & Devotion
Conceived in bed and written on Logic software, there’s a intimacy to Love & Devotion, which is more Radio 2 orientated than other Mu fare.»
Tullycraft - Lost in Light Rotation
Lost In Light Rotation is a collection of lively, bouncy indiepop tunes, and not at all adventurous.»
DiS meets John Lydon - Part 1: The Man
DiS Does Singles 20.05.13: Paramore, Laura Marling, The Replacements
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
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