Brainwash: The DiS review
Leeds's Charity Festival Brainwash enters its fourth year in 2009. We sent along William Grant to check out proceedings.»
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WillDTA has written the following articles:
Hadouken! - For the Masses
Many saw Hadouken’s debut album, Music For An Accelerated Culture, as tongue in cheek. Others saw it as the neon light to save us »
Fall Out Boy - Believers Never Die - Greatest Hits
As way of an introduction to the band, Believers Never Die, provides you (yes, you, the one who had previously shunned them so quickly) the option to discover the brilliant pop rock hooks loved by oh-so many mallrats.»
The Good the Bad - From 001 to 004
‘Welcome To The New School of Surf and Flamenco’ is the subtitle that adorns The Good The Bad’s debut EP, and for geographical ref»
Portico Quartet - Isla
Isla is nothing revolutionary. That’s not to say that its originality is completely lost, but perhaps a touch more adventure and earnest into the mix would change the Portico Quartet's breeze into something much more powerful. »
Kippi Kaninus - Happens Secretly
You're all familiar with Iceland's musical exports now, especially with this here site championing damn near every inch of musical»
Brand New - Daisy
Daisy is certainly a digression from what Brand New could easily have done, and that was something they, obviously, really needed and wanted to do. But it also feels like a regression from the promise and charm that they once exuded. »
Q-Tip - Kamaal the Abstract
Kamaal The Abstract showcases Q-Tip’s fearless step out of line, creating an album that owes more to classic Miles Davis jazz, Motown groove and contemporary Badu/Scott soul that to his rhyme spitting past. »
Little Dragon - Machine Dreams
In a year where La Roux and Little Boots have done their darndest to turn electro-pop into a dirty phrase, Little Dragon offer som»
Flying Lotus - L.A. EP 3 X 3
This is no Oscar night 2003; an evening dominated by victories for the final instalment of the meticulously adapted Lord of the Ri»
Echaskech - Shatterproof
Echaskech’s musical compositions are similar to the processes of their toy semi-namesake. While you’ll feel like you have all the freedom in the world, there are still limitations to what can be created and interpreted with the real thing.»
Yppah - They Know What Ghost Know
The unfair thing with this review, and perhaps most reviews, is name-checking. But it’s almost impossible not to; so here we go...»
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros - Up From Below
In the age of the web 2.0 revolutions, it’s clearer now more than ever that technology has taken its toll on modern life and the g»
"We're still bringing the vibes": DiS shakes it up with Tortoise
Last month Chicago's questing instrumental-rock elder statesmen Tortoise returned with their first full-length album since 2004, in the form of Beacons of Ancestorship, which netted itself a tasty 8/10 from DiS just the other week. DiS caught up with mu»
Nathan Fake - Hard Islands
As ‘The Turtle’ - first track on second album Hard Islands - signifies, it’s misnomers that seem to be the order du jour on Drowning In A Sea of Love's successor. The title may initially create the image of some sort of ‘slow and steady wins the race’ fable, but the track itself couldn’t be further from that. It is incredibly heavy – definitely more in tune with his live performance than his production work ala ‘Drowning... The arrangement of each track works around this heaviness, while the dehumanised clapping, maraca sounds and the live tweaks give the arrangement of each track a human feeling. »
The Field - Yesterday And Today
The pulse in a human body is a vital sign. It’s proof of life; a rhythm that every other part of the being works around, not to me»