"We’re quite uncomfortable with people doing stuff for us" - DiS meets Field Music
David and Peter Brewis talk about what it means to be from the North East, new album Commontime, and what DIY really means...»
Articles
Browno has written the following articles:
Weezer - Weezer (Teal Album)
The Teal Album is an indulgence, but Weezer have earned it on the basis of sheer persistency»
Manic Street Preachers - Resistance is Futile
It's abundantly clear that there’s life in the Manics yet»
Field Music - Open Here
By now it is clear that Field Music are a truly special band»
Maximo Park - Risk to Exist
It feels like a mission statement for a band who deserve the utmost credit for using their platform to stand up so vehemently for their beliefs»
Desperate Journalist - Grow Up
It’s always gratifying to see a good band moving towards being a great one»
Tall Ships - Impressions
Impressions is a thing to cherish»
Martha - Blisters in the Pit of My Heart
The world needs Martha, now more than ever»
Barry Hyde - Malody
The most rewarding albums are often the ones which come out of nowhere and take you completely unawares, and Malody is such a piece of work»
Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go 20
An album which has meant the world to a hell of a lot of people»
Shields - How Can We Fix This?
Is it necessarily a bad thing that it’s the work of seconds to suss out where this album’s going to take you?»
Richard Dawson - The Glass Trunk/The Magic Bridge (reissues)
An artist who is genuinely without parallel»
Shunkan - The Pink Noise
The Pink Noise is a record which is brimming with life»
Placebo - MTV Unplugged
A late contender for one of the nicest surprises of the year»
The Spook School - Try to be Hopeful
The Spook School have nailed it better than pretty much anyone in recent memory here.»
Grubs - It Must be Grubs
One of the liveliest and most enjoyable debuts of the year so far»
Paul Smith and The Intimations - Contradictions
Contradictions is catchy in a completely different way to Maximo Park»
Pavement - The Secret History Volume 1
What The Secret History, Vol. 1 means to you will depend on what exactly you’re looking to get out of it»
Field Music - Music for Drifters
An unquestionably lovely addition to their impeccable discography»
Frankie & The Heartstrings - Decency
Decency is at its best when Heartstrings are indulging their knack for straight up, grin-on-its-face pop music»
Heyrocco - Teenage Movie Soundtrack
Leaves you feeling like an uncomfortable interloper at someone else’s party»
King of Cats - Microwave Oven
There's many reasons to like Max Levy aka King of Cats»
Ash - Kablammo!
Something which by their own high standards is a bit underwhelming.»
Du Blonde - Welcome Back To Milk
Welcome Back To Milk represents another triumph in a weird and wonderful saga»
Joanna Gruesome - Peanut Butter
There’s not a millisecond wasted, not the slightest sliver of fat in evidence»
Slug - Ripe
A creative tour de force which marks the arrival of a new pop maverick.»
Nadine Shah - Fast Food
Nadine Shah is no longer ‘one to watch for the future’, but a bona fide creative force in the here and now»
Parastatic - Recall Fade Return
A fantastically assured record which does everything a second LP should.»
Beach Beach - The Sea
With The Sea Beach Beach have created an album which is, in essence, timeless»
Fawn Spots - From Safer Place
A real three dimensional treat»