calumlynn

...get on the ball, maaaaan!

does looking as unattractive as possible prove that you're a real music fan or something????

but still, y'know, skins.

it sounds like the theme tune to skins

I can't see this being true, as the Darkness refused to have anything to do with the NME after they gave them a very bad live review early on.

is one of the most embarrassing songs I have ever heard.

"Am on top an ya tryin ta stop me naaww!!"

Err, fuck off.

Slow Graffiti really does sound like the Laughing Gnome!

dear

The constant AmericaniSation of this website pisses me off.

You can't see the rest of the band, you can't see the stage, you can't even see any stage lightly hardly, you can't see the audience, you can't get any sense of scale, the photographs have pretty much no context and could have been taken in a studio.

There is nothing which says "live music" about any of those photos.

in an attempt to escape from middle class guilt. Though of course, the working class doesn't exist in the same way it did pre-80s. What we mean is the lower class, the class below the middle class. Which definitely does exist, thanks.

I think this is a really interesting article. However, could the lack of critically acclaimed "bands of the people" be a result of the middle class music industry in a post-Oasis world only putting money into terrible highly cliched working class-stereotype bands, as these are the only bands they think working class fans can relate to?

Could the industry be worried about bands with 'ideas above their station'- for example, that bands who may have written some 'anthems' will then go on to explore less mainstream territories, ie Arctic Monkeys or Pulp post-different Class?

it's needlessly affected and twee and undermines the music being written about.
I'm sorry because I'm sure she's a lovely person but it just drives me mad.

but you have a truly shit taste in music.

the worst article I have ever read on any music website, ever.

None of these artists play country music, all of them are shit, and all of them have been featured on DiS far too often over the last two years. It's a load of trivial bollocks and, after landfill indie, will be without a doubt the most cringeworthy "genre" to look back on twenty years from now.

14 year old boy.

makes me criiiiiiiiiinngggeee

and if anyone else goes on to me about "the festival experience" ever again I swear I will smack them.

actually dared to listen to it then?

DiS up to their old tricks as usual...

And i meant "even", not "ever".

ever the first album. It's just lacking in any genuine emotion.

from the early 2000's, all of which are much, MUCH more embarrassing than any 'Kid A' 4/10...

before White Lies had even played their first gig.

And why should this be "the best song" off the new album? It's not even a proper single release, so I'd assume that it's just a taster of what we can expect, not the song which sums up the entire album!

because they were immediately presented with Beatlemania-esque instant fame, on their first couple of singles, then the first album reached number 1 in the charts, then a top 10 hit... There was 18 months or so of development, but that's it.

and Fold Your Hands has some of the best songs of their career on, brought down by a few really terrible ones. But it's a much better sounding album than Arab Strap.

and Stuart is making the God Help The Girl film. The soundtrack will feature a few new B&S tracks apparently. Though i wouldn't be surprised if they do a few gigs before the end of this year, on the Q&A section and in Stuarts' diary entries on the website he keeps mentioning getting back to gigging and stuff.

Soz Lyk.

or was it part of a festival line up?

I really doubt that the band actually view it in this way. It's a natural progression from their earlier work, and is the best sounding record in my opinion. Plus it makes me excited for what will come next.

mate.

Great review. My faith is restored in DIS.

It was a Fold Your Hands album track. Also, the reason "Nothing in the silence" was never put on an album is because they never recorded another full album with Isobel, only the Storytelling soundtrack. Facts right, please.

Although at least this review wasn't the usual "OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE ISOBEL ISN'T IN THE BAND ANYMORE!!! They are sooooo bad now cos they don't sound exactly how they did 12 years ago" fare.

Why do they all work with "co-writers"? Did successful male acts from last year, MGMT and the like, all work with co-writers too? Is it just the way that things are done these days?

is cringeworthy yet hilarious.

Spriteinthedark was talking about the comments which users of NME.com had left in response to the 4/10 score which they gave Slipway Fires (in a very very similar review to this one).
The NME is exactly the same as it has always been.

That's the entire north and south of england covered, right?

There are no trains out of Scotland past 9:30pm, and it costs a fucking bomb to get from Newcastle to Edinburgh return anyway, so add that to the price of a travelodge of whatever... So once again, the North East of both England and Scotland are overlooked on an major tour.

would be the shittest, shittest thing that DIS could ever, ever do.

with both above posts. Painfully irritating. She should have been condemned to twee hell long ago.

are fucking shit, and they're all bratty little twats too.

is absolutely brilliant. I hate "old Bloc Party" stuff, so I may actually buy this album if it's all in the Mercury vein, or at least download it illegally.

do this, so it's hardly the most outrageous thing to ever happen.

...I could listen to a band like The Smiths or Belle and Sebastian, perhaps? Or about one thousand other bands from the north of england and scotland better than the combined effort of London's musical output this decade.

In fact, it's really shite London shite.

and I couldn't stop laughing. It was awful awful awful awful awful awful awful awful awful awful awful awful awful.

I don't own it, but I've heard it live 3 times so I assume I'm going to enjoy it when it comes out. I didn't enjoy the 2nd Field Music album, there wasn't enough melody, but this is simply amazing.

I don't know why bands make such painfully obvious excuses, it's pathetic. Yeah, I can just imagine the label or whatever saying "ahh sorry, you'll have to cancel your entire 11 date UK tour cause we want you to record some b sides".

but I think they have a lot to prove with this album. Because as someone pointed out, the guitar riffs are all very similar, so I think they'll have to have progressed in order to keep people interested, and I'm not really sure that they've had time to progress.

do people ACTUALLY think people can travel all the way from the north of scotland to go to a gig in glasgow? I mean, really?? Why are reasonably sized cities such as Inverness and Aberdeen deprived of touring bands???

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