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Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch
It lacks the coherency that we look for in an album, the statement of where the artist is at right now»
La Route du Rock 2017: the DiS review
Another winning year for a festival that knows that less is so very often more»
Algiers - The Underside of Power
Algiers are several orders up in terms of gravitas and power and the sheer conviction of their sound»
Green Man Festival 2016: The DiS Review
As we dodge the sheep it’s impossible not to start tensing up with anticipation…»
La Route Du Rock 2016
A lovely festival that gets everything right»
Preview: La Route Du Rock 2016 – all you need to know
Long admired for their discerning curation and the consistently high-quality of their bookings, the La Route du Rock team have assembled another blinder for this summer»
Review: Citadel Festival 2016
As an attempt to do something a little different with the one-day format, this pretty much works»
Citadel Festival Preview - Ones To Watch
DiS is off to put paid to the theory that Sunday should be a day of rest.»
Bat for Lashes - The Bride
It’s better being in Khan’s world than ours right now»
Yeasayer - Amen Goodbye
Just go with it and this is great, a twisted, twisting fable that balances hyperactive rhythm with striking weirdness»
Daughter - Not to Disappear
Not so much sidestepped the perils of the second album as trampled them»
Chvrches - Every Open Eye
An album that fits a mould more than it breaks it»
La Route Du Rock 2015: The DiS Review
La Route Du Rock gets pretty much everything right»
Patrick Watson - Love Songs for Robots
This is not an album that’s ever going to scream for our attention, but it warrants it all the same»
Royal Blood
Powerful and insistent and catchier than Ebola. Damn it, have there been riffs this infectious since Rage Against The Machine?»
Open'er Festival, Gdynia, Poland: The DiS Review
Fair play Open’er - it’s a good show you put on here, and provided we survive the journey we'll be sure to see you again.»
Glastonbury 2014: the DiS review(s)
Four of DiS's finest writers went to Glastonbury 2014, and had very different experiences. Here are their stories.»
The DiS Glastonbury survival guide
It’s that time again, when every last hack from every last publication is doling out advice as to how to tackle the world’s largest festival: who to see, what to pack, where to pitch up and how to have The Best Week Ever.»
We Were Evergreen - Towards
There’s no way the band can maintain these levels of serotonin for long.»
The War On Drugs - Lost in the Dream
Lost In The Dream is an album for drifting away to, for switching off and waking up somewhere else, somewhere better.»
Mogwai - Rave Tapes
It’s not that Rave Tapes is disappointing, it’s just underwhelming - but it’s beautiful enough that maybe that doesn’t matter. Maybe. Next time though a bit more living for Satan might serve Mogwai well.»
Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt
Not classic Pearl Jam by any stretch - let’s not get carried away here - but enough to kindle at least a little optimism for whatever comes next.»
End Of The Road 2013: the DiS review
Intimate yet invigorating, eclectic yet cannily curated, End Of The Road gets everything right: it might no longer close the festival season but it may as well have done.»
Sigur Rós - Kveikur
Kveikur feels alive where last year’s Valtari seemed frozen: from the opening notes of 'Brennistein', guitars swelling like a warning siren, there’s the sense that this could go anywhere, that this could - whisper it - actually surprise us. And it does, repeatedly: these nine tracks might be Sigur Rós shrinking from the light, but it's all the better for it.»
James Blake - Overgrown
Overgrown is an album that seems more at home in the shadows, pared back and delicate, the shiver of a candle flame more than the pulse of a speaker. »
Conquering Animal Sound - On Floating Bodies
On Floating Bodies doesn’t shift the template much but it does refine it, the song structures more pronounced and the rhythms less abstracted, more memorable but just as enigmatic: it's a striking illustration of how easily stunning artists can fall far below the radar, lost beneath the indieboy clamour and the bubbled-up hype and the frenzied scrums chasing whatever’s screaming loudest. »
Delphic - Collections
At no point across the 40 minutes does it seem as though Delphic really care about the songs they’re producing so much as the manner in which they’re produced.»