In Depth
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Albums of the Year
Lost 12 of 2012: Zelienople The World Is A House On Fire
The World Is A House On Fire is the perfect soundtrack for all the places you've never been and all the films you've never seen, nor never will. »
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Interview
"At the moment there isn't a lot of good new music out there": DiS meets Diiv
This time last year, Brooklyn four-piece Diiv were something of an unknown quantity outside of their New York homebase. Having amassed a wealth of critical acclaim largely off the back of debut long player Oshin, Diiv found themselves recently... »
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Mixtape
Some Velvet Mixtape - The Sequel: 2012 in drones, reverb and feedback.
Looking back over the past year, it's been an incredible twelve months of music and here are forty reasons why pedal boards, tremelos and echo chambers rule. »
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In Depth
Rodrigo y Gabriela @ Kentish Town Forum, London 29/11/12
It's a powerhouse performance by Rodrigo y Gabriela on the last night of their European tour. »
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Interview
DiS meets How To Dress Well
Clearly, Tom Krell aka How To Dress Well is an artist who spends a lot more time than most thinking about how the tiniest components of an individual song’s texture provide an affect which contribute to its album’s whole, and to the trajectory of the journey which th... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles 10.12.12: Ned Collette & Wirewalker, BEAK>, Jesse Boykins III & MeLo-X
Single of the Week! Ned Collette & Wirewalker - 'How To Change A City' (Fire Records) 'How To Change A City' took an unforgiveably long minute to get going, and when it did, it put me (happily) in mind of Young Americans-era Bowie. But it's »
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Column
Blowing Up The Workshop #1: House, Techno & the spaces between
_Blowing Up The Workshop (the column formerly known as The Modern Library, the name changed for various unexciting reasons) is an attempt to chart the various odysseys and oddities in House, Techno and the bits that skirt between it, relatively irrespective of timesc... »
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Albums of the Year
Lost 12 of 2012: Nedry In A Dim Light
...it feels rather like the inner workings of some vast machine - solid, heavy, intricate, and tactile. The textures and patterns here are hypnotic, and on higher volumes, truly punishing. It is most definitely of 2012, and I mean that in the best way possible. It fe... »
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Albums of the Year
Lost 12 of 2012: BATS The Sleep of Reason
As the music media clamour to look relevant by tenuously finding three future records to lump together and call a trend or scene for 2013, early signs are they've decided it is time for rock to return. This is obviously ridiculous and suggests bass guitars and Brylcr... »
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Albums of the Year
Lost 12 of 2012: Glacial On Jones Beach
2012: The Year Bagpipes Broke? »
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Albums of the Year
Lost 12 of 2012: Slim Twig A Hound at the Hem
“Every record I’ve participated in has been idea-driven, rather than any desire to be punk or something more general than that. I find music is most interesting when there’s a very specific idea at the heart of a song or an album or someone’s work as a whole.” - Slim... »
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Albums of the Year
Lost 12 of 2012: RYAT Totem
Never taking an eye off the dancefloor, the Philadelphian songwriter’s Brainfeeder debut, Totem, is rushing glitch-driven dystopic pop, swept on a bleakly orchestral breeze of electronic swarm, sheepgut and ivory. There’s an artiness of composition that’s in... »
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Albums of the Year
Drowned in Sound's Favourite Albums of 2012: 25-6
DIS' albums of the year countdown continues... What does your end of list say about you? And what does it say about 2012 that this isn't considered the most nauseating question imaginable? »
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Column
Drowned In Nottingham #12
2012 has been an amazing year for Nottingham as far as its music scene is concerned. Here, Drowned In Sound's man in the East Midlands looks back at this year's highlights, new releases just in time for Christmas and focuses on some of the artists expected to brea... »
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Interview
"We became seminal for doing nothing": DiS meets Debbie Googe of My Bloody Valentine
Earlier this year, DiS caught up with My Bloody Valentine bass player Debbie Googe. Here, she discusses the future plans for My Bloody Valentine, what it's like to have been part of arguably the most influential guitar band on the planet for over a q... »
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Column
Champion Sound #10: feat. Rolling Hip Hop’s best of 2012
It's time again for us to look back over a year's worth of music - meaning, for me, it's time to think of some way to make sense of a year's worth of rap records. In some regards, trying to round up a year in hip hop is even harder than in other genres. The division ... »
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Albums of the Year
Drowned in Sound's Favourite Albums of 2012: 50-26
The countdown of our favourite albums of the year continues... Hopefully you will find something amongst our yearendageddon that you haven't had chance to check out or invest some more time with over the festive break. If you click on the writer names after each of t... »
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Albums of the Year
Drowned in Sound's Favourite Albums of 2012: 100-51
DiS' albums of the year countdown begins... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles 03.12.12: Sleepin' Giantz, Throne, Keel Her, Olympians, The Cast Of Cheers
Single of the Week! Sleepin' Giantz - ‘Mucky’ (Tru Thoughts) 'I love Rodney P enough to read his entire Wikipedia page' does not really cut it as a compliment, but I did and I do - few can do menacing excitement as well as he. Fallacy & Zed B »
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Albums of the Year
Lost 12 of 2012: Father John Misty Fear Fun
Initially, there was plenty of reasons to steer clear of this record – mainly the fact that Josh Tillman’s previous solo albums had been so, so dull, the drummer from Fleet Foxes stripping away the wide-eyed wonder of his bandmates to sing po-faced folk songs. Then, ... »
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Albums of the Year
Lost 12 of 2012: Hallock Hill The Union / A Hem of Evening
The sound of one man noodling around in a very fluid way on a guitar? It doesn’t, on the surface, sound terribly appealing. And yet it is, and it works.... Like all the best ambient music, you can stick The Union / A Hem of Evening on in the background and l... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles 26.11.12: Hot Chip, Yeasayer, Ossie, IO Echo, Divine Fits
Single of the Week! Ossie feat. Tilz - ‘Ignore’ (Hyperdub) As you might imagine, 'Ignore' is about not being on speakers with your boo, no matter how many times they bother your telephone. "I don't mind, I like the chore, you chasing me daily, an »
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Festival Preview
Nightmare Before Christmas curated by Shellac Of North America: The DiS Preview
If you missed out first time round, you have no excuses now. »
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Column
DiS Does Pop #11: How to make the perfect NOW
Hello and welcome to the 11th edition of DiS Does Pop. The pop column for people who stayed up to midnight on Saturday to buy the new Girls Aloud single and may not have been sober at the time. This week sees a potentially historic album released in Now That’s What I... »