First Listen: Keith Richards' notebook
DiS had a listen to Keef’s first new solo album in 20 years, Crosseyed Heart...»
Articles
DanLucas86 has written the following articles:
Weaves - Weaves
There might be a good band lurking within Weaves. They just need to decide what exactly they are»
Whitney - Light Upon the Lake
Whitney’s debut screams – no, actually it gently whispers – effervescence and warmth»
ABC - The Lexicon of Love II
To their/his credit, ABC/Fry have done a reasonable job with The Lexicon of Love II»
Eric Clapton - I Still Do
I Still Do is solid, unspectacular blues»
Woods - City Sun Eater In the River of Light
Woods succeed by not ensconcing their songs in a generic, lazy wall of sound»
Weezer - Weezer (White Album)
We’ve grown. Maybe Weezer should too»
James - Girl at the End of the World
It never feels as though James are comfortable with wholly embracing something brand new and daring»
Wild Nothing - Life of Pause
An album that epitomises white male twenty-first-century indie»
Elton John - Wonderful Crazy Night
Everything about Wonderful Crazy Night is utterly predictable»
Jeff Lynne's ELO - Alone in the Universe
Alone in the Universe is so middle-of-the road that it probably has a bruised arse from dragging it over cats’ eyes»
El Vy - Return to the Moon
Aa proper polished debut from a 'real' band»
Reichenbach Falls - The Traitor Shore
The Traitor Shore is a strong enough, fine enough album to stand on its own two feet»
Battles - La Di Da Di
Battles feel like they are, slowly, finding their way in the right direction»
Stereophonics - Keep the Village Alive
A mixture of straightforward piano, straightforward rhythms and straightforward electric and acoustic guitars»
The Strypes - Little Victories
Hurry the fuck up, Hipster McExcusemeforgivingashitaboutsomethingIlike thinks to himself…»
Yo La Tengo - Stuff Like That There
For possibly the first time in Yo La Tengo’s discography, they're a bit boring.»
Ultimate Painting - Green Lanes
Fuck it, it’s good»
Wilco - Star Wars
Weirdly, late-career weirdness is the closest thing Wilco can do to a fan-pleaser»
Live review: Kylie, BST in Hyde Park, 21/06/15
By the end doubt had given way to giddiness»
DiS meets Bryce Dessner: "We always try to escape the band for a while and go back to our own lives"
Bryce Dessner chats about quilts, inventing his own instruments, and The National's 7th album...»
The National - A Lot of Sorrow
After six hours and eight minutes of listening to that, I can conclude that ‘Sorrow’ is a good song. And I never want to hear it again.»
DiS meets PINS: "Everyone wants their time to shine"
PINS second album is something of a cracker, Dan Lucas caught up with them for a chat about it.»
Hot Chip - Why Make Sense
There’s not a single surprise here»
Django Django - Born Under Saturn
It’s not so much more of the same as MORE of the same»
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Musique de Film Imaginé
As a standalone album, this is a rather splendid effort»
Stealing Sheep - Not Real
Too much of Not Real is nondescript and dull»
DiS meets Dutch Uncles
Dutch Uncles talk to Dan Lucas about their fourth album...»
Radiohead: The Bends – a personal retrospective
The Bends_ was a gateway drug for me. Without it, I would never have gone on to listen to their influences: Can, Miles Davies, NEU! and Aphex Twin...»
Dutch Uncles - O Shudder
Dutch Uncles are smarter than you and me (well, smarter than you anyway)»