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"Clichés, dull lyrics, anything pedestrian – you’re in the sh^t" - DiS meets Frightened Rabbit

In Depth by Finbarr Bermingham

DiS chats to Frightened Rabbit and premieres a mini-documentary about the making of the new album, featuring brand new unheard material.»

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Lost 12 of 2012: Seamus Fogarty God Damn You Mountain

In Depth by Finbarr Bermingham

...a collection of folky musings and ghostly field recordings. These are songs about apple groves and howling winds, of thatched roofs, bleating sheep and people greeting you in the street. The songs capture the essence of the Old Country, the sacred cow of emigrants: idealized by those who’ll never get it back, neglecting to recall the reasons why they left it all behind. And yet, Fogarty is a young man still.»

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Truck 15: the DiS review

In Depth by Finbarr Bermingham

A successful, if unspectacular weekend, then, but the potential to build for next year is present in abundance. »

ASIN B0080MYYGQ

Steve Von Till, Wino, Scott Kelly - Songs of Townes Van Zandt

Review by Finbarr Bermingham

It’s difficult to see a place for this in anyone’s collection.»

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Truck 15: the DiS preview

In Depth by Finbarr Bermingham

That Truck’s been 'resurrected', then, is good news all round. It returns for its fifteenth edition under the fresh stewardship of Ralph Broadbent, he of Y Not Festival, who has replaced founders and long-term custodians Joe and Robin Bennett. »

ASIN B005HI7N82

Loch Lomond - Little Me Will Start A Storm

Review by Finbarr Bermingham

Like a Michel Gondry movie, you’re drawn in by the gorgeous aesthetics, only to be consumed by the shadowy core. »

ASIN B005AT4J0S

The Waterboys - An Appointment with Mr Yeats

Review by Finbarr Bermingham

An Appointment… continues in the vein of The Waterboys' last album proper, The Book of Lightning, in providing intermittent moments of lucid quality amid oodles of overwrought, forgettable filler.»

Kalli Last Train Home LP Cover

Kalli - Last Train Home

Review by Finbarr Bermingham

A sketchy, difficult affair bogged down in melodrama. »