A Musical Lyonaissance: DiS Does Nuits Sonores
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Nuits Sonores Preview - Ones To Watch
DiS' bands to watch at the forthcoming Nuits Sonores festival.»
Pet Shop Boys - Super
At this twilight stage in their career, it would be easy for Pet Shop Boys to fall victim to making the sort of dead-behind-the-eyes disco that the likes of Madonna has been peddling for the last few millennia»
DiS partners with Nuits Sonores - Final Line-Up Confirmed
Lyon’s Nuits Sonores is one of Europe’s most dynamic and forward-thinking festivals.»
Forget The Beatles, The New Skype Love Mojis Are Peak Paul McCartney
Modern-day McCartney is, in essence, the human embodiment of Skype’s parent company, Microsoft. He is a man with unrivalled cultural ubiquity and infinite resources...»
The liminal and hyperreal world of Melt Festival 2015
130km south of Berlin, Kylie Minogue shares a bill with Clark, Jon Hopkins, Nils Frahm and Modeselektor.»
Oeuvre Here: An 18 Album Voyage Through Ringo Starr's Discography
Ringo's commitment to folly approaches levels that would make King Lear blush.»
Doldrums - The Air Conditioned Nightmare
An album that’s well worth a dive into.»
DiS Meets Mew to chat forthcoming LP, Apps and Ja Ja Ja Festival
Mew play at Ja Ja Ja Festival which takes from the 8-9th November at the Roundhouse in London, so we caught up with Bo for a chat about apps, their next record and stuff.»
A festival in an enchanted forest. In a warehouse. In Liverpool. - Summercamp 2013 Reviewed
Nestled amongst the cavernous Grade II listed warehouses of Liverpool’s rejuvenated Baltic Triangle area (home to architects, recording studios, coffee shops, independent bakeries, pop-up drinking holes etc etc urban regeneration fans) there’s Summercamp Festival.»
Mind Enterprises - My Girl
There’s a thousand demo tracks rattling round MacBook Pros all over the country that sound a little too similar to the likes of ’74.’»
The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
For now, The Knife remain steeped in shadow, as subliminal and unknowable as ever. »
Daphni - Jiaolong
Jiaolong may well find a place alongside some ambient microtonal drone cassette in Wire’s end of year list, but this isn’t an academic exercise, this is firmly for the floor.»
The xx - Coexist
It’s almost too perfect to bear.»
Reverend And The Makers - @Reverend_Makers
Many demons are slain at the altar of the Reverend in the course this album – wit, eloquence, incisiveness and originality to name but a few. It’s kind of a shame because you do get the feeling that here’s a guy putting his heart into something he really cares about. Unfortunately the feeling’s unrequited, and in the end you might just feel for Jon McClure - spokesperson for a generation who remain unaware of his existence.»
Rufus Wainwright - Out of the Game
A record that leaves no seam un-burst in its insatiable quest for mainstream adoration and success.»
The Rapture - In the Grace of Your Love
It’s hard to escape the feeling that this is a band struggling to define themselves in a musical context that no longer needs them.»
Melt! 2011, Germany - The DiS Review
It's easy to forget you’re en route to a music festival when you take the 140km coach ride south of Berlin, winding through acres of sunflower fields and wind farms before reaching the monumental steel city of Ferropolis. It's my second time here, and arr»
In Flagranti - Worse for Wear
In Flagranti offer no hype, no glory, no backstory, no limited edition MP3 dongle for the first 500 customers. What they do offer is a jolt to the system, a record bursting with spontaneity that thrills and delights in equal measure.»
Ladytron - Best of Ladytron 00-10
Other bands get swept up in a wave of hype before swiftly being carried back to obscurity, whereas Ladytron are like indie-objectivists, perpetually honing their craft with each new album regardless of popular context.»
Hercules & Love Affair - Blue Songs
A nostalgia-trip of a record which serves as a tribute to Andy Butler’s adolescent tastes rather than a signpost towards the future.»
Aeroplane - We Can't Fly
Gone is the poise, the control, the restraint of Aeroplane we knew and loved. In its place is hollow grandstanding and contrived nods to every questionable Eighties trope from Roger Troutman to Survivor.»
Summer Camp - Young
The band have established themselves a sound that’s so genuine and pretty it dispossesses you of any cynicism and pulls you into their world of fuzzy bewilderment. »
Melt 2010: the DiS review
The sweltering heat combined with the surging pre-festival buzz turns every hour into cold-one o’ clock, so a few friends and I hit the beer tent. Here, a friendly German guy turns round and exclaims in mild disbelief, ‘You’re English and you came all the way out here? Wow, don’t you have your own electronic music festivals?’ At this point I’m still taking in the vast arena shimmering in the distance, then people start diving into the cool swimming lake and I pick up a €1 beer. Erm, not sure if we do festivals quite like this one back home.»
diskjokke - En Fin Tid
Diskjokke toys with a broad sonic-palette on En Fin Tid, yet there’s still a constant spring of optimism and vitality waiting to erupt below the surface of each of these eight tracks.»
Melt 2010 preview
This year the organisers of the 13th annual Melt festival have demonstrated some typical German efficiency in making a handy iPhone app that details all the travel information you could possibly need for a confusion-free journey. It’s a good job, as for»
Kele - The Boxer
It’s kind of hard to reconcile the idea of Kele as a new breed of visionary electronic musician with songs so stultifyingly unoriginal.»
Ratatat - LP4
Your imagination provides the film, Ratatat provide the glorious soundtrack.»
Free Energy - Stuck on Nothing
You’d need DNA evidence to separate Free Energy from the influences they’re so clearly in thrall of, but it’s all so blusteringly fun and care-free that they make you feel like a curmudgeon for even contemplating giving a shit.»
Caribou - Swim
Even if we are in for a raft of artists making music that sloshes freely around your headphones, you’d be hard-pushed to top the elegant wonder of Swim.»