In Depth by Brad Barrett
Each and every year, there are records which slip through the cracks, that individuals who write for the site absolutely adore, yet few others seem to even be aware of. To help highlight a few lost records, a few years ago we invented the Lost List, and ask individuals to write some words explaining why they love the album in question. Next up, Brad Barrett picks a of bruised honesty which doubles as an an amazingly vibrant snippet of hardcore in 2011... »
In Depth by Brad Barrett
Festival season is generally fraught with tales of calamity or serious incidents (these usually include Field Day and on rare occasion, an actual Zoo Thousand) and sad postponements or cancellations – as in Offset, Beacons and Truck this year. Festivals a»
In Depth by Brad Barrett
What do you ask a man whose musical voice has been missing from UK music for five years? We Have Sound was an accomplished debut, something that sounded unique to him and, thus, garnered a cult following who were subsequently bemused by the sudden silence that followed. One of the DiS boards' jokes over the past half decade has been to muse upon the whereabouts of the mysterious Londoner, who appeared to have disappeared from the face of the planet.»
In Depth by Brad Barrett
Following our local perspective, here's Brad Barrett, one of DiS' regular contributors' dazed and bemused tales from beside the seaside for this year's Great Escape...»
In Depth by Brad Barrett
An album that almost feels like it's too fun to exist in 2010.»
In Depth by Brad Barrett
The kind of fatigue that floods your muscles, where before adrenaline was flowing freely, feels like tour limbs and stomach are loaded with ball bearings. It's also a sign that, despite your crushed physical frame, you've given your all and had the best time you could possibly have had. Reeperbahn Festival provides this in a way only SxSW and Brighton's The Great Escape can compete with. »
In Depth by Brad Barrett
A three day display of European and continental talent, Reeperbahn Festival's fifth year provides visitors with a hefty bunch of exciting new bands, a few favourites and a snapshot of Hamburg's creativity and culture.»
In Depth by Brad Barrett
Is it fair to bellow over everyone else? Erupting from Brooklyn, Sleigh Bells have pelted eardrums of the curious with possibly the loudest release this year in the form of debut album Treats. With complete disregard for arguments about over-compression a»
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by Brad Barrett
Twist Your Soul is the perfect overview of a wayward career which disregarded the punk disdain for disco and, as a result, crowbarred in a myriad of exhilarating ideas to be used and discarded by hordes of groups afterwards. »
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by Brad Barrett
It's a frightening, surreal but compelling work that draws on the strengths of Animal Collective while also adding perspective to their failings, in this case allowing their sonic indulgences to dictate the direction. »
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by Brad Barrett
It's nowhere near as modest as its creators but is most definitely a triumph. »
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by Brad Barrett
Throughout you are riveted to your seat, searching amongst the debris for something as gripping and breathtaking as 'Digital Bath', the salacious brutality of 'Be Quiet and Drive' or the arcane violence of 'Elite'. And just like previous album Saturday Night Wrist, you realise highlights aren't immediately forthcoming and that multiple full-length listening is the only way to relate to the work; to lose yourself in the decadence, the irrevocable descent and the hazy, shimmering silhouettes this remarkable band conjure. »
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by Brad Barrett
An absorbing listen that makes much of embracing fluency of expression and scope. »
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by Brad Barrett
Polar Bear represent that crucial point where creativity is unfettered and Peepers is the expression that is expelled from that core. »
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by Brad Barrett
Where Saviours will not win any points is, almost inevitably, in the originality stakes. These waveforms aren’t going to savage that reliably informed idea you have of the genre. Rather it will coax it and comfort it. It might even fall asleep on this comfy blanket of reassurance. »
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by Brad Barrett
Though Losing Feeling remains EP in stature and with its intentions, it’s still enjoyable and represents a need to keep testing different waters before diving headlong into their next murky stretch of creative water. »
In Depth by Brad Barrett
Fresh from the Warners official watermarked stream comes our first listen to the fifth record from Scot titans Biffy Clyro, due next month. »
In Depth by Brad Barrett
We take a look at what the members of Meet Me In St. Louis are up to now, two years to the day after their debut, Variations On Swing was released.»
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by Brad Barrett
You've probably made up your mind already, but Muse's fifth album still has the ability to seduce when you least expect it to. Whether that can sustain a discerning fan's interest is really your call...»
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by Brad Barrett
Hardcore punk to Mexican mariachi may be an unorthodox move but then fun has never been restricted to rules and boundaries. »
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by Brad Barrett
Instores are a lovely way of getting all intimate with your current musical squeeze, but does it dispense with a preferable gig experience? Micachu and the Shapes do a lot to dispense with any such doubts.»
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by Brad Barrett
Gentile, slightly smudged and even a little melancholic, like faces pressed against steamed-up windows watching someone leave, Passion Pit are immediately accessible yet ever so teary-eyed in delivery.»
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by Brad Barrett
In a time before Gallows and F^cked Up were on magazine covers, there was The Bronx. They return with a knuckle-dusting, remind us they only have two channels: ferocious and more ferocious.»
In Depth by Brad Barrett
Just before the end of 2008, we spoke to Vampire Weekend about things they liked, their amazing 2008 and what 2009 may hold for them... »
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by Brad Barrett
Happy Birthday You does what you secretly hoped it would – it conjures up an authentic fireplace romance, full of gestures we all take for granted, but which means so much when you first fall in love.»
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by Brad Barrett
Despite first impressions, How We Became is quite the opposite of laid-back, lazy music. There’s soul and energy flowing through the entire album. It just needs a willing vessel to channel through.»
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by Brad Barrett
Deerhoof's world, then, remains something of a mystery as they end the fourteenth year of their recorded career. It's still overflowing with all kinds of aural fauna and sonic life; incomparable and often hard to describe.»
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by Brad Barrett
“Music is our distraction from destruction,” or is it? DiS looks at great music which would never have existed in prosperous times. »
