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Drowned in Manchester #15 – May 2013
Due to such enforced real-life distractions such as family commitments, holidays, Masters Applications and the likes of such things, this month’s Drowned in Manchester column is a more truncated edition than normal. But there’s still been enough time to s»
Drowned In Manchester #14
Everything you need to know about the best new music and live events in Manchester...»
Stornoway - Tales from Terra Firma
For all its many laudable attributes, Tales from Terra Firma proves ultimately frustrating: a skilled, capable and talented band still unaware of how best to channel and control their creative energies. »
Drowned In Manchester #13
As another year rises over the skyline of Manchester’s oddly juxtaposed city centre, it’s a new dawn and a new day for Drowned in Manchester also.»
Ninetails - Slept and Did Not Sleep
There is an audacious expressive joy about Ninetails that, even if the overall content of their music was merely adequate, would still render them worthy of intense interest.»
Girls Aloud - Ten
There remains enough stunning pop alchemy here to thrill beyond requirement.»
Lana Del Rey - Born to Die - The Paradise Edition
What makes The Paradise Edition relevant is that within its added chapters, the whole Lana Del Rey figure emerges more completely.»
Fossil Collective - On & On
Pretty and ethereal this brief collection may be, but there are too many moments on On & On where the music floats by on a winter breeze, rather than truly engaging, stunning and binding you to its heart. »
Bob Dylan - Tempest
You find yourself snagged on every gnarled and crooked word.»
Beacons festival: the DiS review
The 2012 Beacons Festival was light years ahead of the 2011 edition, in that it actually happened. Rob Cooke and David Edwards were on hand to report.»
Blur - 13 ('21' reissue)
A record unlike any Blur had even come close to before. It was a paradigm shift in tone, style and approach that effectively broke away from the ice-shelf of their previous work, and carried their legacy towards vastly different hemispheres. »
DiS meets Johnny Marr & Nile Rodgers - "The greatest artistic motivator in music is jealousy"
DiS' David Edwards and Simon Catlin talk guitars, music and collaborating with two icons of late twentieth-century guitar playing: Johnny Marr and Nile Rodgers.... we kick off an interview with such lines as “When I was playing with Bowie” and “When we were recording ‘There is a Light that Never Goes Out’” mentioned almost as casual asides. »
Benicassim 2012: the DiS review
While most of the Drowned in Sound staff spent last weekend getting sodden at Latitude, David Edwards was faced with a slightly different problem at the fantastic Festival Internacional de Benicàssim. Namely, how to keep cool in the sweltering heat amongst so many superb performances…»
Air Cav, I See Angels & S I L V E R @ Salford Sacred Trinity Church, 21/6/2012
Thanks to the typically ludicrous conditions of the M6 Motorway hindering my journey back from Birmingham, I sadly only catch a few minutes of S I L V E R’s woozy electronic folk as it dances and bounces off the church walls - but it’s intoxicatingly pret»
Beat The Radar - A Million Different People
Beat The Radar’s second album is abundantly charming, in the way that every turn and fold of the record is organic, honest and delivered to the world with clear love and care. »
Echo Lake - Wild Peace
Rarely in the past few years has mist and swirl seemed so gorgeously enticing, mystical and engaging.»
The Walkmen - Heaven
Heaven finds The Walkmen's beautiful, sweet melancholy crystallised into what could well be their finest record to date.»
Ladyhawke - Anxiety
Ultimately, for all its merits and charms, it’s unlikely that Anxiety will draw in too many people who weren’t smitten with Ladyhawke the first time around.»
The Great Escape 2012 - DiS' Festival Highlights
In this review of the festival, we've not tried to cover everything (there were well over 300 acts, after all). Instead, what you'll find below is DiS' editor's picks of the weekend (that's me writing this intro, hello!), but first, DiS' David Edwards who trekked down from Manchester shares his picks of the weekend...»
Benicassim 2012: the (very early) DiS preview
As part of our 2012 festival coverage, DiS will be present and correct at the the 2012 Festival Internacional de Benicàssim from 12th-15th of July...»
Dr. John - Locked Down
A lean, bare-chested and sweat-bathed beast of an album; it rattles along with energy, mystery, swirling swamp-mist and a delectable gumbo of cultural influences and razor-sliced spice.»
The Decemberists - We all Raise Our Voices to the Air (Live 04.11-08.11)
As The Decemberists reach ten years of album releases, We All Raise Our Voices to the Air serves as a more satisfying tribute than a ‘Best Of’ as it permits you the opportunity to hear the band in their niche environment: complete with all the joyous theatricality they embody.»
The Magnetic Fields - Love at the Bottom of the Sea
The Magnetic Fields have returned to their hometown; but older, blunter and with a more acerbic tongue in their cheek. »
Various - Listen Whitey! Sounds of Black Power 1967-74
This is the bubbling, volatile soundtrack to an era that genuinely changed the world. »
"I think romance is mostly a memory of a myth" - Drowned in Sound meets Stephin Merritt
Incredibly, it has been twenty-one years since The Magnetic Fields emerged with their debut record Distant Plastic Trees. As the band return from their self-imposed electronica exile with new album Love at the Bottom of the Sea on March 5th, Drowned in Sound was lucky enough to meet with bandleader and songwriter Stephin Merritt to discuss the new album and how apparently, romance is dead in the modern age...»
Tindersticks - The Something Rain
For the first time in nearly a decade, Tindersticks sound urgent again.»
Goldfrapp - The Singles
Goldfrapp were never trailblazers; but nor were they cynical copyists. They were simply a very good electronic outfit who happened to appear at a time when the market was right for a combination of atmospheric electronica and the confident, dark sensuality that Will Gregory and Alison Goldfrapp crafted and espoused.»
Francois and the Atlas Mountains - E Volo Love
E Volo Love is evidence of work that remains in progress, but also evidence of a band who can craft some delicate and wistful melodies, swishes of vivid colour and a genuine air of romantic charm without ever crossing that dreaded boundary line into schmaltz and overbearing twee.»
Diagrams - Black Light
This is not an album lacking in confidence, ambition or skill.»