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Due to such enforced real-life distractions such as family commitments, holidays, Masters Applications and the likes of such things, this month’s Drowned in Manchester column is a more truncated edition than normal. But there’s still been enough time »
Everything you need to know about the best new music and live events in Manchester...»
For all its many laudable attributes, Tales from Terra Firma proves ultimately frustrating: a skilled, capable and talented band still unaware of how best to channel and control their creative energies. »
As another year rises over the skyline of Manchester’s oddly juxtaposed city centre, it’s a new dawn and a new day for Drowned in Manchester also.»
There is an audacious expressive joy about Ninetails that, even if the overall content of their music was merely adequate, would still render them worthy of intense interest.»
There remains enough stunning pop alchemy here to thrill beyond requirement.»
What makes The Paradise Edition relevant is that within its added chapters, the whole Lana Del Rey figure emerges more completely.»
Pretty and ethereal this brief collection may be, but there are too many moments on On & On where the music floats by on a winter breeze, rather than truly engaging, stunning and binding you to its heart. »
You find yourself snagged on every gnarled and crooked word.»
The 2012 Beacons Festival was light years ahead of the 2011 edition, in that it actually happened. Rob Cooke and David Edwards were on hand to report.»
A record unlike any Blur had even come close to before. It was a paradigm shift in tone, style and approach that effectively broke away from the ice-shelf of their previous work, and carried their legacy towards vastly different hemispheres. »
DiS' David Edwards and Simon Catlin talk guitars, music and collaborating with two icons of late twentieth-century guitar playing: Johnny Marr and Nile Rodgers.... we kick off an interview with such lines as “When I was playing with Bowie” and “When we were recording ‘There is a Light that Never Goes Out’” mentioned almost as casual asides. »
While most of the Drowned in Sound staff spent last weekend getting sodden at Latitude, David Edwards was faced with a slightly different problem at the fantastic Festival Internacional de Benicàssim. Namely, how to keep cool in the sweltering heat amongst so many superb performances…»
Thanks to the typically ludicrous conditions of the M6 Motorway hindering my journey back from Birmingham, I sadly only catch a few minutes of S I L V E R’s woozy electronic folk as it dances and bounces off the church walls - but it’s intoxicatingly »
Beat The Radar’s second album is abundantly charming, in the way that every turn and fold of the record is organic, honest and delivered to the world with clear love and care. »
Rarely in the past few years has mist and swirl seemed so gorgeously enticing, mystical and engaging.»
Heaven finds The Walkmen's beautiful, sweet melancholy crystallised into what could well be their finest record to date.»
Ultimately, for all its merits and charms, it’s unlikely that Anxiety will draw in too many people who weren’t smitten with Ladyhawke the first time around.»
In this review of the festival, we've not tried to cover everything (there were well over 300 acts, after all). Instead, what you'll find below is DiS' editor's picks of the weekend (that's me writing this intro, hello!), but first, DiS' David Edwards who trekked down from Manchester shares his picks of the weekend...»
As part of our 2012 festival coverage, DiS will be present and correct at the the 2012 Festival Internacional de Benicàssim from 12th-15th of July...»
A lean, bare-chested and sweat-bathed beast of an album; it rattles along with energy, mystery, swirling swamp-mist and a delectable gumbo of cultural influences and razor-sliced spice.»
As The Decemberists reach ten years of album releases, We All Raise Our Voices to the Air serves as a more satisfying tribute than a ‘Best Of’ as it permits you the opportunity to hear the band in their niche environment: complete with all the joyous theatricality they embody.»
The Magnetic Fields have returned to their hometown; but older, blunter and with a more acerbic tongue in their cheek. »
This is the bubbling, volatile soundtrack to an era that genuinely changed the world. »
Incredibly, it has been twenty-one years since The Magnetic Fields emerged with their debut record Distant Plastic Trees. As the band return from their self-imposed electronica exile with new album Love at the Bottom of the Sea on March 5th, Drowned in Sound was lucky enough to meet with bandleader and songwriter Stephin Merritt to discuss the new album and how apparently, romance is dead in the modern age...»
For the first time in nearly a decade, Tindersticks sound urgent again.»
Goldfrapp were never trailblazers; but nor were they cynical copyists. They were simply a very good electronic outfit who happened to appear at a time when the market was right for a combination of atmospheric electronica and the confident, dark sensuality that Will Gregory and Alison Goldfrapp crafted and espoused.»
E Volo Love is evidence of work that remains in progress, but also evidence of a band who can craft some delicate and wistful melodies, swishes of vivid colour and a genuine air of romantic charm without ever crossing that dreaded boundary line into schmaltz and overbearing twee.»
This is not an album lacking in confidence, ambition or skill.»
A remarkably strong and luminous statement of intent in the dark dawning of the year.»
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Drowned in Manchester #15 – May 2013
armchair dancefloor 39: Mount Kimbie interview, Bobby Browser, Powell, Move D, Leon Vynehall...
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
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