Angels. Demons. Gods. Life. Death. Whatever. DiS meets Ho99o9
The New Jersey noisemakers talk religion, fear, and their hellacious debut album»
Articles
Sundowner has written the following articles:
Converge - The Dusk in Us
It’s a testament to Jacob Bannon and his cohorts that they remain so compelling nine albums in»
And In The End, It Mattered… The Raw Power Of Chester Bennington
RIP Chester, possessor of a ferocious voice that roared in search of catharsis.»
Haim - Something To Tell You
This is the kind of music that artificial intelligence will be creating in the near future»
Ho99o9 - United States of Ho99o9
You’ll need a breather or two, for sure, but that’s the nature of great horror»
Harry Styles - Harry Styles
There isn’t a single trace of Harry Styles the person on these ten songs»
At the Drive-In - In•ter a•li•a
At the Drive-In are back, they have purpose, and it turns out that we very much need them»
Head & Shoulders Above: DiS Meets Hamilton Leithauser
We talk mining the past & collaboration with the towering frontman»
Father John Misty - Pure Comedy
He remains unknowable, and maybe that’s the sharpest gag of all»
Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes
It is the sound of a band doubling down on what brought them to their particular dance»
Lupe Fiasco - Drogas Light
Quite the mess all told»
AFI - AFI (The Blood Album)
Little in the way of stumbles and no real clunkers to speak of»
The Weeknd - Starboy
Starboy is fine, it’s grand and it will do, and it really should be so much more.»
Busted - Night Driver
Almost definitely a better effort than anything McFly 2.0 would come up with»
Robbie Williams - The Heavy Entertainment Show
Long gone are the days when his antics were the least bit intriguing»
"A dying star fading into a pinpoint…": DiS Meets The Dillinger Escape Plan
The New Jersey wrecking crew look back and forth on one hell of a run…»
Kings of Leon - Walls
Kings of Leon are what they are»
Bon Iver - 22, A Million
22, A Million is a triumph»
She’s In Control: DiS meets AlunaGeorge
Aluna Francis talks I Remember, gaining perspective, and feminism…»
Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam - I Had A Dream That You Were Mine
Goes bigger and better in the way that a worthy sequel should»
"I need to sing things that mean something to me": DiS Meets James Vincent McMorrow
Unafraid of the majesty of pop and hugely enamoured with hip-hop, rap, and R&B, he's shaking things up.»
Frank Ocean - Blonde/Endless
His focus is somewhere else. Maybe we can go there, too»
At Swim, Dr Phil, and Keanu Reeves – DiS Meets Lisa Hannigan
"It’s definitely a darker state of affairs than before."»
Crystal Castles - Amnesty (I)
The sound of a band reborn out of pure necessity yet one where all component parts ring meticulously familiar»
"80% of bands don't need to exist": DiS Meets 65daysofstatic
It might officially be a soundtrack, but it's also one of the year's finest releases.»
Roisin Murphy - Take Her Up to Monto
We ought to be unsettled»
Jake Bugg - On My One
On My One is so indebted to the efforts of others that you come to wonder if Bugg deliberately set out to construct the cheekiest concept record of recent times»
Minor Victories - Minor Victories
Minor Victories score major returns when saying a lot with a little»
LUH - Spiritual Songs for Lovers to Sing
Once more, Ellery James Roberts finds himself with a unique project that may well burn so intense that there are no corners left to ligh»
M83 - Junk
A cheap and hollow statement, worthy of its title»