Pearson Ocean Fire: tour for September
Texan country-rocker Josh T Pearson, formerly of Lift To Experience, returns to the UK for a string of dates with hotly tipped Leicester six-piece indie crew Pacific Ocean Fire...»
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The Insect Guide - 6ft In Love
6ft In Love is a brave and definitive debut album. Another notch against any shoegazing naysayer...»
Beach House - Beach House
Beach House’s debut is not an album for our time; it is one that yearns for a simpler life, for an existence always tinted rose and viewed through eyes misted by joyous tears, something we all wish for but will never achieve...»
Akron/Family - Love Is Simple
In the space of four years and through a handful of albums Akron/Family have evolved from a collective of psych/folk rock chancers to one of the strongest acts in their chosen/given sub-genre, and surrounding ones as well...»
The Mock Heroic - Dignified Exits
Dignified Exits is an album for the few seconds before a car crash, when your soul begins its escape of the body and someone else’s life flashes before your eyes...»
Get Hustle at Nottingham Bunkers Hill Inn, Fri 21 Sep
It’s easy to point fingers in the vague direction of Lightning Bolt, Hella, The Locust or, y’know, any band that blurs the boundaries between music and noise, or simply push any boundaries; the difference here is that Get Hustle retain the old rock and roll spirit...»
Pacific Ocean Fire, Josh T Pearson at Leicester Firebug, Fri 14 Sep
Through good and evil, dark and light and all shades in between, Josh T Pearson is one of the truly great songwriters, nay showmen, of our age...»
Spanish For 100 - Say What You Want To Say To Me
Be sure to check Spanish For 100 out before the inevitable waves of widespread critical adulation thrust them into the limelight...»
"Like hypno-birthing": Lords on their second LP
MySpace site and their genre description pretty much describes them to a tee: Rock, Rock, Rock. Their debut album This Ain't A Hate Thing, It's A Love Thing was a hard (blues) rocking bastard and a half. I played it at work yesterday and two middle-aged men combusted...»
Hot Renault Traffic presents... at Nottingham Junktion 7, Sat 25 Aug
This can be summarised as neither shoegaze nor post-rock; this is music crafted by angels with the souls of devils trying to break free of the purgatory of modern life; a scary prospect for most in the day of the wittily socially-observant rock band, but an altogether more rewarding one. Catch Exit Calm before they take off...»
Humanfly - II
The name Humanfly doesn't really conjure up much confidence, sounding as it does perfect for a sub-standard metal band playing on a £2 bill with 13 other sub-standard metal bands...»
Asobi Seksu - Citrus
Asobi Seksu are a band possessing talent and ability far beyond their years and with Citrus they have fully realised their potential in a particularly short time...»
O'Death - Head Home
Such a drunken, riotus hijacking of a once noble bloodline. The passing of the old forced in such an anarchistic fashion, a revolution of sorts. It used to be beautiful yes, but never this thrilling, this necessary.»
Gravenhurst - Trust
Ignorance may not be bliss, but sometimes it’s good to look upon a person’s art with an uncertain eye...»
Tenebrous - Tenebrous Liar
In the world of Tenebrous Liar, everything happens just out of the reach; always at the corner of the eye...»
Superkings - Hit The Ground Running
With Superkings the glass is both half-full and half-empty, but what it contains is so diluted and devoid of any discernable taste that you end up wishing for the glass to just smash on the floor...»
Their name is Gizeh? Calla Sign Deal, Tour
Brooding yet beautiful Leicester five-piece Her Name Is Calla have signed to Leeds based record label Gizeh Records, home of Immune and Glissando among others.»
twentysixfeet - My Dead Organ
Comparisons can be drawn to fellow Brits Oceansize circa their Effloresce debut, but where t' Size reached their focal point on sprawling epics, twentysixfeet are at their most potent when cramming every idea into as small a time (just under four minutes on the title track) as possible...»
Enter Shikari - Jonny Sniper
I'm confused. Am I supposed to take these guys seriously? On one hand they have won NME's John Peel Award for Superamazing Uniqueness or something (which says more about NME than the loveable iconic, but rather unfortunately dead, DJ), yet on the other it comes into my hands from the DrownedinSound.com offices with a “LOL” from editorial...»
Souvaris - A Hat
A Hat offers little you haven't heard before, stylistically, but there’s every chance you haven't heard it told as well as this...»
Underground Railroad - Twisted Trees
Jolly French three-piece Underground Railroads’ latest album Twisted Trees is a Hollywood epic of an art-punk album: it hits you hard, head on, with such velocity that it’s momentarily stunning...»
Label Focus #5: Gringo Records
On June 9, a small but very special record label based in Nottingham reaches its tenth birthday. Its name is Gringo Records, and if you are a patron of the Midland's smaller venues, or a visitor to recent ATP and Dot To Dot festivals, you may know its name. But just what do you know of its releases? The answer from the many: not very much...»
The Nottingham-Berlin Crossroads: DiS meets Josh T Pearson
DiS's Jordan Dowling catches up with the reclusive former Lift To Experience man while he tours with 65daysofstatic.
Today is special for two reasons. Firstly, it marks the first time I've been rained on whilst inside a bus. Secondly, it marks the first time in around five years that Josh T Pearson has agreed to do an interview...»
Napoleon IIIrd - In Debt To
Napoleon IIIrd has revived the classic, quirky, British pop spirit that has been dead, or at least dormant, for the past decade. Bless him...»
Band of Horses - The Funeral
'The Funeral', the first UK single taken from 2006's highly rated Everything All The Time album, is one of the strongest, and most immediate, passages to Band Of Horses' ethereal, windswept world...»
Dungen - Tio Bitar
Maybe it's a sign of the times? A few years ago I would have loved an album like Tio Bitar, a consistent, solid album that pitches its tent in near-virgin soil. Now, though, I struggle with it. »
Thee More Shallows - Book Of Bad Breaks
Book Of Bad Breaks is not a particularly difficult listen. Thee More Shallows have, in a short time, perfected their sound to an extent that they can take multiple left turns without losing their way. It's prog, sure, but not as you know it. Just how you want it...»
Smegma - 33 1/3
The fact that this release actually marks a third of a century since the band’s birth is quite scary. How they have gone this long without being shopped is quite astonishing, but I guess it goes to show that no matter what shit you can come up with, there is always going to be someone you can fool...»
Other Passengers - Sick Sick
From a journalistic standpoint I hate bands like Other Passengers. Bands that refuse to stick to a particular genre for more than 30 seconds, whose music constantly evolves, expands to new territories without ever retreating. From the standpoint of a music fan, more relevant to you I guess, I love them...»
Low - Drums And Guns
Drums & Guns is likely to split opinion to a greater extent than any other piece of Low's extensive catalogue, but avid fans should not be put off as behind the challenging production and at the centre of all their controlled experimentation lies one of the band’s strongest releases to date...»