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Bruiser has managed to take what The Duke Spirit are great at and expand it to create something greater.»
In July 2009 Grammatics had just been nominated by the good people of DiS for our very own Mercury Music Prize alternative, the Neptune award. Jump forward little more than a year and this otherworldly Leeds band are slowly getting used to ‘normal’ life again having just completed the last dates of their last ever tour. DiS asked a few questions to find out exactly why Grammatics have decided to split.»
Somehow Gorilla Manor feels easy. Pristine and mature, it clouts the listener with a thudding barrage of vital guitar hooks and layered percussion; a dynamic product of accomplished creation, which sounds both radiant and wretched as it traces around themes of love and loss. »
For those who thought Noah and The Whale’s first offering was mellow, I present to you First Days of Spring; making its predecesso»
Not to be confused with New York no wavers Theoretical Girls (note: plural), you’d be forgiven for thinking Theoretical Girl, aka»
The best thing about side projects is that they give artists the opportunity to expose and dissect whatever it is they musically y»
Leeds' Pulled Apart By Horses played a smasher of a gig on Bristol Thekla’s tiny bar stage at the recent Dot to Dot festival, whereupon DiS took the opportunity to catch up with the reprobates and quiz them a but more about their somewhat unhinged world.»
Radio 1’s new-music poster-boy, Huw Stephens, has digits dipped in many a musical pie, from festivals and Welsh TV to record labels, so his latest digital endeavour comes as no surprise.»
Placebo have been kicking about for 13 years – whether that’s lucky or unlucky will depend on your musical persuasion. By my reckoning, that either makes them absolute fucking legends or those twats who crash your party and refuse to leave. Personally, I’d like to think it’s the former. »
