Natural Harmony: DiS Does Indiefjord 2017
This tiny festival effortlessly captures the best in big ideas»
Articles
Mangham has written the following articles:
Us vs Them Curated By Los Campesinos!
What a great idea to put one of DiS' perennial favourites in charge of curating an entire day's worth of bands»
"We wanted to keep things feeling raw and real and live": DiS Meets Lanterns On The Lake
Their live, orchestral album is the sound of a band maturing to meet a new challenge»
DiS Does End Of The Road 2016
Another year, another triumph for what is surely the country’s pre-eminent festival.»
Kid Canaveral - Faulty Inner Dialogue
Continuing a headstrong, very Scottish, freewheeling tradition»
Shearwater - Jet Plane and Oxbow
A record that feels like a journey rather than an arrival»
Everything Everything - Get to Heaven
Everything Everything can, remarkably, also now do subtlety.»
The Tallest Man on Earth - Dark Bird is Home
It dwarfs and inspires equally.»
DiS Meets Radiohead's Philip Selway: "If it means something to some people then that is success"
And yes, he does talk a little bit about album nine.»
Dan Mangan + Blacksmith - Club Meds
Club Meds feels like an Ansel Adams photograph»
Gemma Hayes - Bones + Longing
There’s real thoughtfulness throughout; simple arrangements that nonetheless retain delicious details.»
Tweedy - Sukierae
Only Wilcophiles, and patient ones at that, will summon the desire to digest it all.»
Sinkane - Mean Love
Encompassing disparate roots, Mean Love is an attempt to reconcile native African heritage with established Western influences.»
Review: Arcade Fire @ Hyde Park (03/07/14)
“It’s easy to fall in love in London on a day like this”, Win Butler admits. It works both ways»
Phantogram - Voices
This is a solid rather than spectacular listen.»
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Only Run
Only Run is a qualified success.»
My Sad Captains - Best of Times
Those with the quietest voices can still cut through the squall.»
Son Lux - Lanterns
Lanterns a record of true poise.»
Luke Temple - Good Mood Fool
A world away from Luke Temple's previous records, Good Mood Fool is a mixed bag in that’s revisionist in approach, but somehow topical. »
Sky Larkin - Motto
Motto is, deep down, so good because it shows there are no shortcuts. Success takes graft, experience and expansion of horizons.»
Richard Buckner - Surrounded
The product of distraction from someone lazily drawn from writing to mixing desk.»
Victoria and Jacob - Victoria and Jacob
A hugely encouraging and promising debut.»
No Joy - Wait to Pleasure
Wait to Pleasure is a break for sonic maturity, retaining No Joy's signature narcotic ruts of sound.»