Why 2018 Has Been A Great Year For New Old Music
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Articles
MarcBurrows has written the following articles:
Aidan Moffat and RM Hubbert - Ghost Stories for Chrismas
It’s unsentimental and unfussy, but still radiates a simple joy in celebrating a special time of the year»
The Good The Bad & The Queen - Merrie Land
One of the quiet highlights of the year»
There's A Ghost In My House: DiS Talks The Fall & The Extricated With Brix Smith Start
The musician talks us through her new band, her time away from music, and why she still thinks fondly of The Fall»
Three Chords & The Truth: DiS Meets Mark Kermode
Better known as a film critic, Kermode is also a true musical obsessive»
Suede - The Blue Hour
The darkest and most swooningly elegiac Suede album since Dog Man Star»
Blood Orange - Negro Swan
The introversion and the melancholia is only half the story»
In Memoriam: Aretha Franklin The Interpreter
Once she took on a piece of music it belonged to her»
Shiny And Oh So Bright: Smashing Pumpkins Live In Baltimore
A celebration of Pumpkindom, a grand-scale reminder of everything that made this band so meaningful»
Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction (30th anniversary reissue)
Never forget that under all the polish is authentic Hollywood dirt»
Cureation 25 @ Meltdown
Robert Smith gives us the most perfect distillation of everything that makes The Cure, well, The Cure»
The Libertines @ Meltdown
They’re no longer a shadow of themselves, but the genuine article»
"This felt more like making something for the first time": DiS Meets Charles Watson
As one half of twee-core-folk-turned-shiny-pop-turned-soul-rock balladeers Slow Club, Charles Watson has spent the last decade learning lessons: how to collaborate, how to take your influences and process them into something that’s very much your own, how»
Ash - Islands
A new Ash album is always a treasure»
Iceage - Beyondless
Fourth albums are supposed to be game changers; that’s true of Beyondless»
Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
This is a rich and complex record which rewards patience»
The Fangasm: This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours by Manic Street Preachers
A rich, unique and deeply special album that could only have been made by this band at that exact moment»
Black Foxxes - Reiði
Black Foxxes are a special band. The kind that deserves to have their logo written on pencil cases, and their posters bluetacked to walls»
The Lovely Eggs - This is Eggland
They wield their sound like a lemonade sledgehammer»
No Age - Snares Like a Haircut
You’ll just be glad it exists. If, that is, it exists at all»
Sia - Everyday Is Christmas
This isn’t a gold-standard Sia album by any stretch, but it works»
William Patrick Corgan - Ogilala
An interesting curio in an always-compelling career»
Marilyn Manson - Heaven Upside Down
It’s business as usual, but after a decade of disappointment, it’s good to know business is doing wel»
Brix and the Extricated - Part 2
Retired indie singers in their fifties aren’t suppose to pick up a guitar for the first time in a decade and write some of the best melodies of their career»
Prophets of Rage - Prophets of Rage
The slogans feel thin, but the music itself is substantive»
Girl Ray - Earl Grey
It’s like James Brown in a tweepop sheep skin»
The Mercury First Listen Review: Kate Tempest
Marc Burrows on Kate Tempest's Let Them Eat Chaos»
The Fall - New Facts Emerge
Arguably the 2017 Fall is the purest version of the band there has ever been»
Chuck Berry - Chuck
Chuck Berry was really fucking good at being Chuck Berry. It’s all we ever wanted him to be»
Sweet Baboo - Wild Imagination
So charming it makes Belle & Sebastian sound like Slayer»