In Depth
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Albums of the Year
Drowned in Sound's albums of the year 2010: 50-11
The albums' of the year countdown hots up with the main body of the list. The top ten follows tomorrow but for now, some thoughts from site founder Sean Adams who compiled this list... Somewhere, somehow, there is a link to be found between the rhyming i »
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Festival Preview
ATP preview: Plan B mag meets Godspeed You! Black Emperor
In advance of Godspeed You! Black Emperor's return at ATP at the weekend, now seems like a good time to share Efrim's thoughts on the band's founding, in the 'transcript' of an 'interview' conducted for the late, great Plan B magazine. »
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Albums of the Year
Drowned in Sound staff members: #1 Albums of 2010
Whilst one big site-defining list with somewhat arbitrary positionings, full of compromises and a whiff of fair-play politics is all well and good, the far more fascinating thing is the ONE album people believe stands on a column, far above all others. Over the past ... »
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Albums of the Year
Drowned in Sound Albums of the Year 2010: 75-51
DiS usually does a top 50 albums of the year. However, 2010 has seen the release of rather a lot of much-loved records that we have been forced to do a roll-over, in order to highlight a few more must own/investigate records. »
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Interview
Interview: Interpol on break-ups, Carlos' departure & new blood
As one of the most pivotal outfits to emerge from New York's vibrant underground music scene this past decade, Interpol's legacy is already set in stone. Their 2002 debut Turn On The Bright Lights is highly regarded as one of the most influe... »
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Festival Review
Constellations festival: the DiS review
There’s something pleasingly honest about Constellations, a new one-and-half-day festival seemingly built on nothing more than the notion that the people of Leeds could do with distraction from being slapped in the face by swirls of wet November leaves. »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 29/11/10
This week is last of the absurd pre-Christmas log-jams, and I am pleased to tell you there is much to love. Not least Old Blakey (drama), Pulled Apart By Horses (rampage), Tickler Tea & Magic Fuzz (The Funk) and Robyn (love-scarred wisdom I intend to ignore). »
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In Depth
Lost 10 of 2010 - #6: Ólafur Arnalds ...and they have escaped the weight of darkness
DiS' news editor and recent 10 years of... Nordic series editor, Luke Slater, chooses the sixth pick in our list of 10 records which perhaps didn't get the time and attention we really deserved th... »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #71 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's Spotify playlist. With some songs from artists that featured in our content in the past week or so. »
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In Depth
Trans Musicales: The DiS Preview
Hello Everyone. On the 9th, 10th and 11th days of next month I shall be in France at a thing called Trans Musicales. And I don’t know if you can tell what those crazy French have done there, but they have put the word 'musical' together with the word ‘trans’, to crea... »
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Column
Drowned in Scotland: November - December 2010
Our local scribe talks us through the rise and rise of Frightened Rabbit, venue closures, Christmas party gigs and much more... »
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Staff-generated
Lost 10 of 2010 - #4: Meursault All Creatures Will Make Merry
Our Lost 10 of '10 list rumbles on with Alexander Tudor's pick... »
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Albums of the Year
Lost 10 of 2010 - #1: Actress Splazsh
Over the past few year's, DiS has used the annual year-end 'listing season' to highlight a few of our writers favourite records that for one reason or another, slipped through the cracks and failed to garner the attention they deserved. In these increasingly fractiou... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 22/11/10
This week: Mr. Damon Albarn for canonisation, attention to detail, reverb, and an almost endless list of things you can treat yourself to. »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #70 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's Spotifriday playlist featuring some supreme cuts from the likes of Napoleon IIIrd, Errors, British Sea Power, James Blake, Twin Shadow and much, much more. Well, a little bit more anyway. »
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Interview
DiS meets Jenny Lewis & Johnathan Rice
DiS meets Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice (aka 'Jenny and Johnny') to talk about their debut album. »
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Interview
DiS meets My Chemical Romance: "It's hard to stay dirty"
Gerard Way needs to wash his t-shirt. But then, it’s probably all part of the futuristic vagabond image My Chemical Romance have taken on for their new album, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys. Either way, DiS is sure his mother would disa... »
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Interview
DiS meets Scott Devendorf of The National
Scott Devendorf should need no introduction. As one-fifth of arguably Brooklyn's finest exponents of alternative rock this past decade The National, he's attained legendary status along with his fellow bandmates the hard way, steadily building both c... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 15/11/10
This week and next week everyone in indie is rush-releasing - before Christmas puts an end to joyful, selfish record-shopping. It is a log-jam. And to be honest mildly terrifying, as if you could smell the wheels in hard, furious motion. »
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Artist-generated
iLiKELiTERATURE part 2: A Reading List
Following on from part one yesterday featuring a mixtape, here lies part two... »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #69 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's content-themed round-up of songs in the form of a playlist, featuring Pulp, Weezer, Hjaltalin, Terror Danjah, Dreamend, Spoon, David Bowie and some more people. »
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Artist-generated
Detachments: 10 Years Of Cold Wave and Synth Inspiration
A spot of genre-guide Spotify playlist mixtape-japery for you (click here). The band Detachments offer us a "where to start with...", chronological introduction t... »
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Artist-generated
iLiKELiTERATURE - Part 1: Leeds bands literature-inspired mixtape
A mixtape with a literature and Leeds, leaning... »
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Interview
DiS meets The Vaccines: "The band don't create media interest - the media do"
The Vaccines are a name that's on the tip of everyone's tongues right now. Having been together for less than a year, the hotly tipped London four-piece seem to be carrying the whole future of UK guitar music on their shoulders thanks to an unprecede... »