In Depth
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Takeover
Gareth Los Campesinos! - WHY I HATE THE GLOCKENSPIEL
Gareth Los Campesinos! is auctioning off his Glockenspiel in aid of the relief effort in Haiti. Below, he tells us why he'll be glad for you to take it off his hands ... In the past three years of doing interviews I've constantly been amazed at how muc »
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Interview
DiS meets The Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt
In what was a very rare opportunity to get an audience with the man himself, DiS spent a cold January evening chatting to the quite amiable Stephin Merritt - a man dubbed "the most miserable man in rock" on more than one occasion - and found ourselves discus... »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #30: This Week on DiS as a Playlist
Welcome to the 30th Spotifriday, compiling the week on DiS as a Spotify playlist. What an eventual week it's been, I'll cut to the chase and explain as I go along. »
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Artist-generated
Watch: Fyfe Dangerfield gives a track-By-track review of Fly Yellow Moon
Watch Fyfe talk about his new album, Fly Yellow Moon. »
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Staff-generated
101 Nordic: A Northern Lights-lit Playlist
Breezy strings, doom-drenched death-metal, synth-pop, submerged harmonies, summery ukeleles and icy xylophones are - as this playlist attests - just some of the sounds of the Nordi... »
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Column
The View From The North: Ten Nordic Releases from 2009
2009 saw the release of many exciting and innovative albums hailing from the Nordic countries, some of which stirred up substantial attention around our very own island. »
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Artist-generated
Rhys from Good Shoes' Tips for 2010
Rhys Jones from the band Good Shoes takes us through his tips for the coming year, including some video links for you all to gawp at. Take it away Rhys, with a little help from his friends... »
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Artist-generated
First Aid Kit's track-by-track guide to The Big Black & The Blue
Swedish folk-pop duo First Aid Kit take us through the thoughts and processes behind their debut album The Big Black & The Blue. »
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Interview
DiS meets Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater
It's been a long while since Shearwater transcended their low-key, nocturnal, alt-folk beginnings, and who remembers there was ever another songwriter onboard? With their chamber-orchestration, and Jonathan Meiburg's astonishing vocal range, Shearwater's best ... »
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Interview
Owen Pallett's track-by-track guide to Heartland
Wondering what the hell all this business about 'Lewis' and 'Spectrum' is on Owen Pallett's new opus Heartland is? Yeah, well this track by track guide won't exactly tell you... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 18/01/10
This week's winners are Oh No Ono, Princeton and Emika. But then along came dEbruit - with his line-jumping, bump-hop marvellousness - and it marched him something cheeky; right to the front of the queue. Thing is, I... »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #29 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
Normal service resumed this week, and what a bunch of albums, singles and news stories we've had to hand-pick this playlist from. No fewer than TWO 9/10 albums, a couple of 8s and a Suede re-union. That's not mentioning the two Singles of the Week, by Yeasayer and Th... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 11/01/10
This week the music industry goes Back to School – so while These New Puritans, Yeasayer and Maps (fourth years, dripping with swagger), Madness (Upper Sixth, if not Head of History, definitely Senior Prefect) all dust off their favourite novelty erasers and sharpen ... »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #28 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
We're back! In a slightly slimline form. Still sexy, though. »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 04/01/10
The first round-up of the year isn't quite the barren affair it might have been. Although there was a nice learning curve sort of switcheroo when I had to email bands and labels myself - rather than the usual GO ON THEN, IMPRESS ME WITH YOUR PRESS RELEASE th... »
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Spotifriday: DiS Editor's Top 40 Songs of 2009
It's Friday and on DiS throughout 2009 that meant we did a Spotify playlist to compliment our editorial (archived here). Yeah, it is not unlike a covermount cassette wot you used to get on Melody Make... »
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In Depth
DrownedinSound's Singles of the Year: 2009
I have chosen 100 singles I really do implore you to get your sticky mits on. If I had had to put them in order I would have had a breadvan, so I am sure you will excuse the absence of cheap - and vaguely pointless - countdowning. »
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Festival Review
10 Years of ATP: Sunday
Messrs Lukowski and Bloomfield offer up their final reflections on the last day of the last ATP festival of the first ten years. »
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Festival Review
10 Years of ATP: Saturday
As Friday waned and Saturday waxed at ATP's ten years bash, so the tardy Andrzej Lukowski joined the doughty Philip Bloomfield in reporting on the weekend's musical happenings for YOUR pleasure. »
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Festival Review
10 Years of ATP: Friday
DiS had a mighty good time at Ten Years of ATP, despite not even knowing what ATP was ten years ago. We’re pretty sure everyone else did, especially Todd Trainer, who looked very confused to see the giant mural of his face outside Centre Stage. Philip Bloomfield repo... »
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Staff-generated
DiS staffers '09 Mixtapes - Part 3
Whilst our top 5 albums of the year list offers somes glimpse into what our staff have been listening to these past twelve months, the annual mixtapes give a real insight as to what has been pleasing the ears, minds and heart strings of those wot write for DiS. »
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Favourite Five
Favourite Five from: Paramore, of Montreal, Foals, Sky Larkin and Metric
It's the time of year to list the best records of the year. We've asked some of our favourite acts to tell us which five albums they've had in heavy rotation. »
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Drowned in Sound's Top 50 Albums of 2009 - 50-1
So, that was 2009? Was it a great year for music? A high watermark? Only time will tell but there have been some triumphant, innovative and bold records released and cherished in 2009 and we hope our list of the top 50 of the year reflects this. »
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IT'S DiSSMAAASSS!!! - A Very DiS Christmas 88-track Spotify Playlist
We've picked covers by some of our favourites like Sufjan Stevens, The Polyphonic Spree and Katy Perry, plucked a few festive originals by Frightened Rabbit, The Raveonettes and Emmy the Great, plus ... »