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Black Sabbath - 13
Pint-swigging oldies in faded black jeans who reckon that music peaked circa 1975 will dig 13. Sports-shy pubescents forging a vaguely alternative identity from their mainstream peers by buying Kerrang! once a week will dig it. Most folk in between will nod along acceptingly.»
The Fall - Re-Mit
Re-Mit might not be the Fall record on which Mark E Smith finally relinquishes language altogether in favour of communicating in only a dry-mouthed hangover gargle, but it’s close.»
Primal Scream - More Light
With Bobby Gillespie partly muted, experimentation back on the agenda, and a guru knob-twiddler at the helm, Primal Scream are back on form.»
The Flowers of Hell - Odes
Odes is not a flying success. Nor is it a disaster. With a covers album, that might be the best one can hope for.»
The Haxan Cloak - Excavation
There is something strangely life affirming about The Haxan Cloak.»
Chelsea Light Moving - Chelsea Light Moving
While preserving his natural nonchalant charm, Thurston sounds more vigorous, bellicose, twitchy and forceful than he has in years.»
Greg Boring - Heavy Syrup
No. of tracks on Greg Boring’s debut album (Heavy Syrup) that are genuinely boring: 0»
Ducktails - The Flower Lane
What is the future of music journalism?»
Mount Eerie - Clear Moon/Ocean Roar
Phil Elverum is a **ing genius.»
Oneida - A List of the Burning Mountains
A List of the Burning Mountains resembles a small, amputated segment of one of Oneida’s mammoth Ocropolis jams, although not necessarily the best bit(s). The overall impression is that the improvisation was more enjoyable to perform or to witness at the time than to listen to after the fact.»
Supersonic 2012: the DiS review
DiS does Birmingham's numero uno avant-garde music festival; things get a bit stream of consciousness.»
Fontanelle - Vitamin F
Fontanelle’s guitarist Rex Ritter has toured and recorded with Anderson’s hooded drone merchants Sunn O))), producer Randall Dunn has worked with the likes of Sunn O))) and Wolves in the Throne Room and, yes, Vitamin F’s cover is indeed largely black. It’s a pleasant surprise, then, to discover that the music contained within it is quite so much fun.»
Supersonic 2012: the DiS preview
On October 19-21, Birmingham’s deliciously named Custard Factory will again host the annual Supersonic Festival. Organisers Capsule will be celebrating the ten year anniversary of the event with a line-up showcasing both old friends and emerging contemporary artists. Here are some of the treats they have in store.»
Metz - Metz
By the end of this album’s 30 boisterous minutes you’ll feel absolutely exhausted.»
Beth Orton - Sugaring Season
On Sugaring Season Beth Orton captures both the melancholy and the confidence that comes with growing older really rather well.»
Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet on Sky
Some listeners may lament this retreat from the hefty barrage of sound that was 2009’s Farm, but it is crucial that a band such as Dinosaur Jr progresses and varies itself»
Seth MacFarlane - Music is Better Than Words
It takes substantial effort on the part of the listener not to picture every line being sung by a cartoon dog that can talk.»
Plan B - Ill Manors
Behold Ben Drew, the modern Hogarth.»
The Flaming Lips - The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
The best moments are those which eschew any attempt to write proper 'songs' and instead simply try to convince the listener that he or she is travelling on an epic, wobbly, thrilling and frightening, mind-expanding journey through outer space.»
Liars - WIXIW
It is a refreshing, sublime, and exciting work of art. WIXIW? Bless you, Liars. Bless you.»
Marilyn Manson - Born Villain
Like those other contentious reactionaries Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, Marilyn Manson is no longer a figure of hatred but a figure of pity.»
Lee Ranaldo - Between the Times and Tides
If Sonic Youth really is over, we’re still going to be okay. We have the old records, and the material each member will produce independently is going to be of a high standard, just like this is. »
White Hills - Frying on this Rock
Open your mind and take it in? Regrettably, there’s little substance to take in here. It’s like booking a trip on Richard Branson’s moon rocket and ending up with a tour of an abandoned Zavvi.»
Bitch Magnet - Bitch Magnet
It is time to look beyond that terrible, terrible name and recognise Bitch Magnet as perhaps one of the greatest, and certainly most underappreciated, post-hardcore rock groups of all time.»
Dan Sartain - Too Tough to Live
Dan Sartain never exactly sounds cutting edge, but he usually sounds better than this.»
The Fall - Ersatz G.B.
The Fall: always different, always the same, now with added phlegm.»
200 Years - 200 Years
An album which is a touch too samey and a just a little bit too nice.»
Metallica, Lou Reed - Lulu
Lulu is the second greatest record ever made in the history of the human ear drum. Number One: Metal Machine Music.»
Luke Haines - 9 1/2 Psychedelic Meditations On British Wrestling Of The 1970s And Early '80s
Luke Haines is not mad. He is an artist in the truest sense, and for that he is to be applauded.»
Champion Sound #13: Part 1 – Ten Yeezus Pieces
Parklife Weekender 2013 – The Drowned in Sound Review
Drowned In Sheffield #14
DiS Does Singles 17.06.13: Dornik, Washed Out, AlunaGeorge
All Hail the Culturati... Fighting Over Radiohead's Hail to the Thief
Cutting Through the Noise: What it's really like representing new artists at events like The Great Escape
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