DiS Report: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Film Premiere
Two DiSsers ventured to the premiere of one of the most anticipated movies if the year. Here they share their thoughts on the film...»
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Stuart Warwick - The Butcher's Voice
For all its playful moments, The Butcher’s Voice remains a pretty claustrophobic 45 minutes, the highpoints many and lovely but a touch too airless by the close.»
Soundgarden - King Animal
There’s something reassuringly uncompromising about this comeback effort, something almost primal in its stubborn cling to a sound resolutely out of step with whatever constitutes the alternative mainstream right now.»
Menomena - Moms
Moms is never bleak, nor ever anything less than captivating. Make no mistake - like all of Menomena’s work it takes some time, but as with all of their work it’s worth it.»
Frightened Rabbit - State Hospital
Granted, these five tracks might not stray far from Frightened Rabbit’s established template, but these twenty minutes are still of a higher quality than many, many bands manage in a whole career. »
The Antlers - Undersea
Undersea demands commitment, sure, but the effort is well-rewarded for an EP that feels much more significant than its 22 minute running length might imply.»
Sigur Rós - Valtari
Valtari might not be a huge digression for the band but that doesn’t matter: this is quietly, entrancingly and thoroughly sublime.»
Amon Tobin - Boxset
Amon Tobin's Boxset has been put together with far too much care to be dismissed as a mere cash-in, and those fortunate enough to be able to afford it are very, very unlikely to find cause for disappointment. As for the rest of us - well, we can but drool. »
Dry the River - Shallow Bed
Too precise, too ordered to fully lift, and, unlike the band’s live shows, too damn earnest. But give Dry the River time, some Nietzsche and a few more months cabin-fevered together in their East London house and hopefully they’ll start to bite a little harder»
Kele - The Hunter
It must rile Kele a little that 2008‘s 'One More Chance' had Bloc Party nailing the electronic thing far better than anything he’s managed since. But let’s not reignite those arguments: it’s just not worth the time. »
Bjork - Biophilia
Biophiliacarves out brave new territory for an artist who’s been colonising the fringes of music all her career, fragile and demanding, at times uncomfortable but always fascinating.»
"The possibilities of writing without anger" - DiS meets Saul Williams
It’s been three years since the last time I met Saul Williams, soaked through with sweat and rain on Brighton’s seafront shortly after his 2008 Great Escape performance at the tiny Volks. On that occasion I barely lasted a minute before my thoughts scattered in fright and I bid an embarrassed farewell: today we have somewhat longer. Well, only five minutes officially, but it’s nearly three times that before Williams pauses for breath, the beer merely warming in his hand as he flits between topics, cadence accelerating as he fires off points like artillery on music, film, politics and Lady Gaga. And, of course, his own new album Volcanic Sunlight, released in May in France and the US but yet to receive a date here. »
Death Cab For Cutie - Codes & Keys
An album so doggedly middling that it barely even strives to make an impression.»
Pearl Jam - Vs. & Vitalogy (Remastered editions)
If you own the albums already there’s nothing essential here. And if you don’t, you should.»
Asian Dub Foundation - A History of Now
These are songs that engage the body, sure, but as for the mind - well, they’ll be lucky if they form a memory. »