In Depth
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 06/06/11 Beirut, Katy B, Cults, The Vaccines
'Parping melodically', a 'pointed plea for realism', Lidl, war/treggings, kidnapping for kicks, squats, middle-class guilt, pretending to be crap at pool, and some songs. »
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Column
Champion Sound #1 (June 2011)
Hello and welcome to a new regular column documenting hip hop through the mixtape, and other loosely released rap records that I decide to include. Because let’s face it, the term mixtape has become basically meaningless in recent years other than being synonymous wi... »
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Interview
"I suppose people are expecting me to say, Nick Cave’s a…": DiS talks to Mick Harvey
"I mean, I suppose people are expecting me to say, Nick Cave’s a…" Mick Harvey, sipping sparkling mineral water in one of the Cumberland Hotel’s many lounges, mumbles a word that sounds an awful lot like cunt. "But it’s not like that. We still talk. A bit »
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Interview
Flannel shirts & bankrupting Sub Pop: DiS meets Obits
Last month saw the release of Moody, Standard and Poor the second album from Brooklyn’s Obits. »
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Festival Review
Future Everything 2011: The DiS review
Team Drowned in Sound went to Future Everything and here's what we thought. »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #93 - This week on DiS as a playlist ft. Lady Gaga, Suede, Gil Scott-Heron + more
This week's content themed Spotify playlist featuring St. Vincent, Death Cab For Cutie, The Antlers, Lady Gaga, Patrick Wolf and a few more, for good measure. Click here to listen to it, will you! 1. St. Vincent - 'The Party' We nearly had a party our »
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Interview
"Less of my dirty laundry & more of the things I find inspirational": Patrick Wolf on Lupercalia
You could never, by any stretch of the imagination, accuse Patrick Wolf of a lack of effort, invention and drive. In the nine years since he emerged blinking onto the scene as a quixotic, blonde wonderboy armed with a treasure chest packed full with the weird ... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 30/05/11 Mo Kolours, Wiley, Death Cab For Cutie, Seasick Steve, Donae'o
This week's selection includes some polyphonic vocalisms by way of Mauritius, music for Friends montages and another bit of free verse Because I Felt Like It and Because I Say So. »
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Interview
DiS talks dogs, Prince, Brooklyn and Burst Apart with The Antlers
To celebrate the album's release today in the UK, DiS fired some questions at Peter Silberman, the band's singer and chief songsmith. Here are the thoughtful responses, confirming a few of my fanboy theories, which were digitally transmitted back... »
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Interview
Ben Gibbard chats to DiS about Randy Newman, The Cure and Death Cab's 7th Album Codes & Keys
As part of our Death Cab for Cutie takeover, we got on the phone with Ben Gibbard to find out more about their new album Codes & Keys... Speaking to Ben Gibbard, the band’s prolific principle song-writer and ... »
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Staff-generated
Spotifriday #92: Nick Cave, Death Cab, Suede, Tom Vek, The Rapture
It's f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-fuh-Friday! Here's our Spotify playlist running down the week that was, well, it was somewhat won by re-issues and threads about pop-punk. Who says we need to be ... »
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Festival Review
The Great Escape 2011 - Review Part 2: Pav Tav To The Future
Following our local perspective, here's Brad Barrett, one of DiS' regular contributors' dazed and bemused tales from beside the seaside for this year's Great Escape... »
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Festival Review
The Great Escape 2011 - Review Part 1: The Local Perspective
Attempts to sum up a music festival through anything but an individual and their eyes and decisions are either ambitious or deluded. In part one of our coverage of the recent festival, DiS' Brighton columnist shares his adventures, thoughts and opinions on this year'... »
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Artist-generated
Frightened Rabbit's track-by-track guide to Sing The Greys by Scott Hutchison
Tonight, in Edinburgh, DiS-favourites Frightened Rabbit are playing a special show, as their original 3 piece line up, playing their debut album Sing The Greys. The album was originally released as a limited edition run of 1000 copies, on th... »
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Takeover
Death Cab for Bass: Mixtape of Songs That Inspired Nick to Play Bass
Or Death Cab for Cutie's Nick Harmer's Top Songs In No Particular Order that inspired him to become a bass player, way back when: »
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Takeover
10 Things To Not Expect Your Record Producer To Have A Cogent or Completely Satisfactory Answer For
Our Death Cab for Cutie takeover continues with their guitarist/producer Chris Walla's "Ten Things To Not Expect Your Record Producer (me) To Have A Cogent or Completely Satisfactory Answer For". Chris has produced all seven Death Cab for Cutie full length albums... »
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Takeover
Death Cab for Vietnamese: Nick Harmer's Guide to the best Pho in Seattle
Kicking off several days of DiS being taken over by Death Cab for Cutie, to celebrate the release of Codes & Keys (released on Monday), is bassist Nick Harmer's Guide to the best "Pho" in Seattle. »
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Column
Drowned in Chicago #3: Summer 2011 Edition
Summer in Chicago, the crown jewel in the diadem of the American Midwest, is all about the music festivals. »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 23/05/11 Battles, Toddla T, Herman Dune, Bibio, Villagers
This week I asked my Mum if she would like to contribute to my column. Her marks are in brackets. We do not agree on Single of the Week. »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #91 - This week on DiS as a playlist ft. Kate Bush, Four Tet, Let's Wrestle + more
This week on Drowned in Sound in the form of a Spotify playlist. As bloody usual! This one features some legends of the game in Kate Bush, Let's Wrestle, Thurston Moore and Four Tet. »
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Interview
The "evils of the industry" and recording on a lifeboat: DiS meets Thomas Dolby
I was barely walking upright when Thomas Dolby arrived on the scene with a bang in 1982 with his debut album The Golden Age of Wireless.Dolby’s music has remained influential and important because it still remains fresh and forward-thinking: lovingly cr... »
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Interview
DiS meets Explosions In The Sky
To celebrate the release of Explosions In The Sky's sixth album, Take Care, Take Care, Take Care, guitarist and occasional bass player Michael James speaks to DiS about the album. »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 16/05/11 Lykke Li, Ghostpoet, Justice, Those Dancing Days
Although it is parlous to make comparisons between olden day sounds and modern nonsense, this week I have struggled. This is partly due to my having moved The Elizabethan (my favourite, favourite record player) into my bedroom; and it is partly because once moved, I ... »
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DiSection
The Antlers' track-by-track guide to their new album Burst Apart
Peter Silberman talks us through The Antlers incredible, album-of-the-year contender, Burst Apart... »