We Love EU: Coals
Meet the Polish duo crafting wonderous dream-pop and cloud R&B»
Articles
maxpilley has written the following articles:
These New Puritans - Inside the Rose
This is, at least in a relative sense, These New Puritans’ pop album»
Panda Bear - Buoys
The nine tracks that comprise Buoys are disarmingly straightforward»
Julia Holter - Aviary
A challenging listen, but its message needs to be heard»
We Love EU: Nanook Of The North
The Polish duo have created a haunting, spectral score inspired by a landmark documentary»
Kate NV - для FOR
NV’s live shows are a true spectacle, something disappointingly absent here»
"I thought someone would have kicked Trump out by now": DiS Meets Natalie Prass
The singer-songwriter opens up about Trump, #MeToo, and using her platform to affect change»
We Love EU: Pitou
Dive into the gorgeous music of the Amsterdam-born singer-songwriter»
DiScover: Weird Bloom
We dive into the psychedelic madness of Luca Di Cataldo»
DiScover: The Vegan Leather
We talk to the Scottish quartet about genres, politics, and more»
"I hate 'art pop' and 'art rock', they don’t make any sense":DiS Meets Django Django
For this acclaimed quartet, music is music, and everyone is an artist»
Hookworms - Microshift
Microshift is full of space and sharpness»
Ty Segall - Freedom's Goblin
Comfortably his longest record to date, but also his most listenable»
Shame - Songs of Praise
An unimaginative album from a promising band»
Something Old, Something New: Neue Meister's Modern Classical
We went to Berlin to see some of the best contemporary experimental composers»
Omar Souleyman - To Syria, With Love
He has brought us an all-too-real-life case of tears on the dancefloor»
"Art doesn’t ask you who you are in order to touch you": DiS Meets Ibeyi
We talk to the sisters about their new album and their hopes for the world»
Ariel Pink - Dedicated to Bobby Jameson
The riches are right there under the surface»
Micah P Hinson - Presents The Holy Strangers
A very literal plea for salvation»
Cueing Up A Storm: DiS Meets Steve Davis & Kavus Torabi
We talk to the DJ duo ahead of their Festival No. 6 slot this weekend»
The Fangasm: Urban Hymns by The Verve
An album where the band were their best selves, united and moving forward as one»
Oh Sees - Orc
Orc is most exciting when it is Oh Sees doing their thing»
The Ice Kream Van Kometh: The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu Return
Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty have returned, exactly when they promised they would»
Ghostpoet - Dark Days + Canapés
Ghostpoet proves on Dark Days & Canapés that it is possible to talk about the issues without coming across as preachy or naïve»
The Mercury First Listen Review: Glass Animals
Max Pilley on Glass Animals' How To Be A Human Being»
Ibibio Sound Machine - Uyai
The band remain addicted to a good time»
Dutch Uncles - Big Balloon
Another strong entry in the Dutch Uncles catalogue»
Sampha - Process
There is no doubt listening to Process that Sampha is dealing with a lot»
Soft Error - Mechanism
Two musicians with a clear facility for evoking visual landscapes and narrative drama»