Drowned In Manchester #2
The second installment from our scribe in Manchester in our continuing series of local scene reports...»
Articles
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The Miserable Rich - Of Flight and Fury
The trouble with such gorgeously sweeping arrangements is that they fall quite apart from the emotional tenor of what de Malpaquet is trying to convey. »
Plank! - Plank!
Plank! have their fingers pointed squarely at all the po-faced musos in the room; that the Plank! EP happens to be pretty proficient to boot makes it easier to laugh along, though they should remember: jokes can get tired fast. »
Shy Child - Liquid Love
Make no mistake, this is Shy Child’s hedonism album.»
Drowned In Manchester #1
Our first local scene report and guide from our DiSser in Manchester...»
LoneLady - Nerve Up
The recent Warp signing is another of example of the label’s increasingly diverse roster: sure, her debut LP does display some of the mechanical flourishes that have previously been associated with the Sheffield imprint - the omnipresent clack and judder of a drum machine underpins almost everything on Nerve Up - for the most though it’s the ghosts of Magazine, Wirem, Factory Records et al. that Campbell recalls. »
Swanton Bombs - Mumbo Jumbo and Murder
The pair work best when they don’t have to think too much, and for the most of Mumbo Jumbo and Murder they don’t, throwing themselves into their gruff clamour with relish.»
Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring
Romance is Boring marks the tipping point when self-absorbent adolescent relationships and emotions become the things used to cower behind as escape from the harsh realities of life’s ticking clock.»
Ex Libras - Suite(s)
A three-piece that formed in a Hounslow library, they describe themselves as “post-breakbeat”, a term coined owing to their attachment of hip-hop beats to a panoramically instrumental sound. Suite(s), as well as being steeped in post-rock, is firmly indebted to the DJ Shadow/Aphex Twin apex that formed the basis of Thom Yorke and co’s leap from ‘apocalypse fearing rock band’ to ‘apocalypse fearing electronica ensemble’.»
Guy Garvey's track-by-track guide to Asleep in the Back (Deluxe Edition)
“We’re still incredibly proud of this record” says Elbow frontman Guy Garvey, having dissected the reissue of Asleep In The Back for Drowned In Sound. It’s easy to see why. Whilst 2008’s Mercury-bagging The Seldom Seen Kid may have sent the group truly stratospheric, it was merely a furthering of their wonderful ability to convey poise and grandiosity amidst the humdrum backdrop of a Northern town. The group’s 2001 debut album, in many ways, remains a template for the much loved five-piece. Re-released this week with added bells and whistles in the shape of 1998 EP Noisebox, some live recordings and Lamacq sessions, the band's avuncular leader here offers a track-by-track reminiscence on where it all began.»
This City - We Were Like Sharks
Like the kid in the playground who floats between social groups, We Were Like Sharks gives the impression of a band eager to please everyone; ultimately when it comes to graduation, no one quite remembers what it is they liked about them. »
Massive Attack - Splitting the Atom
On Splitting The Atom, though, the duo simply sound like they’ve run out of ideas, unsurprising given the opening half’s attempts to re-visit an album over eighteen years old.»
Animal Kingdom - Signs and Wonders
Coldplay, derided in some quarters though they may be, have hooks. They know where the demographic-embracing points are in their songs; the bits where people will sing along, or raise their phones in the air. Animal Kingdom want but have none of this.»
The Phoenix Foundation - Happy Ending
Happy Ending is a quest of a record that provides both a range of textural delights as well as the necessary immediacy to maintain engagement. »
Dinosaur Pile-Up - The Most Powerful EP In The Universe!!
Yorkshire really has been spoiling us musically this year. Releases by Grammatics and Blue Roses, to name but two, have both been »
T In The Park: The (slightly delayed) DiS review
What with being a bunch of self-absorbed Sassenachs and the press pass being organised a bit last minute, we didn't get around to running Simon Jay Catling's review of T In The Park in any sort of timeframe likely to make anybody involved look professional. Sorry Simon! Sorry Scotland! Please don't hurt us.»
Thieves Like Us - Play Music
Play Music’s story of misplaced love and desire is set against a backdrop of an arcane urban night club scene, where pretentious c»
Patrick Kelleher - You Look Cold
To be honest, the minimum I expect of an album these days is to include use of at least three types of condiment containers; Patri»
Here We Go Magic - Here We Go Magic
It’s hard to gauge what qualities a pseudonym possesses that can so unshackle an artist from their original persona and thrust the»