"The tension between light and shade makes great art": DiS Meets The Summer Kills
The collaboration between Hammock and Matthew Ryan is an expansive, sweeping listen»
Articles
fireonthe_skin has written the following articles:
The Summer Kills - Last Night We Became Swans
Not to put too fine a point on it, this is a dream of an album»
The Black Delta Movement - Preservation
The Black Delta Movement have everything in place to steer British rock in an exciting new, old, direction»
Save Face - Merci
A really solid record full of hooks, finesse and layers upon layers of crunchy guitars»
MONO @ Meltdown
Tonight, the band are certainly not messing around»
pg.lost @ Meltdown
A scintillating journey of undulating, atmospheric awe and wonder»
The Sea the Sea - From the Light
This is folk-tinged pop of the highest order»
The Magic Numbers - Outsiders
Maybe The Magic Numbers will never change the world, but the sheer intelligence and quality of their songs makes their corner of it a little bit brighter»
"My greatest wish is to provide solace for people who need it": DiS Meets Lucy Dacus
We talk to the Richmond-based singer-songwriter about her meteoric rise and her stunning new album»
Glen Hansard - Between Two Shores
This is a really fine album»
"I'm interested in the area where truth and fiction get blurry": DiS Meets Mutemath
We sat down with frontman Paul Meany ahead of their first UK show in nine years»
Righteous Fury: DiS Meets Algiers
We sat down with the band behind one of 2017's most politically charged records.»
Royal Blood - How Did We Get So Dark?
A big, grown-up rock album»
Aldous Harding - Party
A work of depth and passion the like of which we see and hear all-too rarely»
Mew - Visuals
Epitomises all that is great and frustrating about the band»
Luke Sital-Singh - Time is a Riddle
This is a fine piece of work»
Oak House - Hot or Mood
A local independent band making their first proper steps on the international stage»
Fink - Fink's Sunday Night Blues Club, Vol. 1
Somewhere between a good idea that became a reality and a proper Fink album»
Army of Bones - Army of Bones
This is one of the most assured and crucial-sounding debut albums of recent memory»
Ed Dowie - The Uncle Sold
This is an album that requires time and focus»
Palace - So Long Forever
There is a really good band fighting to be heard on this record»
Albert af Ekenstam - Ashes
A collection of vividly alive songs»
Oddarrang - Agartha
Records often disappoint. Not this one»
The Neil Cowley Trio - Spacebound Apes
Simply put, this is a stunning piece of work»
Losers - How To Ruin Other People's Futures
One of the most life-affirming albums of the year»
Society - All That We've Become
A hard one to pin down»
Public Service Broadcasting - The Race For Space / Remixes
It is to the credit of Public Service Broadcasting that they can attract such an imaginative and varied crowd of collaborators to partnership with them»
Beth Orton - Kidsticks
If only more musicians would be brave enough to truly re-invent themselves»
Szun Waves - At Sacred Walls
A fantastic record which rewards concentrated listening and consumption as a whole»
Steve Taylor & The Danielson Foil - Wow to the Deadness
One of 2016's most beguiling and potentially intimidating musical debuts»