DVD Review: The Rolling Stones – Sweet Summer Sun
Essentially a “greatest hits” parade, played out to a vast, mixed crowd on a glorious day in Hyde Park.»
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The Waterboys - Modern Blues
The problem is that the songs are pedestrian»
Wilco - What's Your 20? Essential Tracks 1994-2014
A fine opportunity to appreciate the best band of the past 20 years.»
Bryan Ferry - Avonmore
Avonmore sounds so quintessentially Eighties, so quintessentially Ferry, that it’s better to compare it to the rest of his oeuvre than to any contemporary releases»
The Twilight Sad - Nobody Wants To Be Here & Nobody Wants To Leave
The true delight in Nobody Wants to be Here & Nobody Wants to Leave is what lies within its murky depths.»
Philip Selway - Weatherhouse
A very good, warm record.»
Neil Finn - Dizzy Heights
Even if you find Neil Finn’s oeuvre hitherto boring and hate this album, you at least still won’t find Dizzy Heights dull.»
Uncle Tupelo - No Depression (legacy edition)
The idea of Uncle Tupelo as a modern band isn’t quite so far-fetched as it may superficially seem.»
Brendan Benson - You Were Right
A general sense of 'good enough' about the tunes suggest that Brendan Benson is looking forward to The Raconteurs’ return sooner than the rest of us.»
Boards of Canada - Music has the Right to Children (2013 remaster)
Very few albums are as gloriously, perfectly produced as Music has the Right to Children.»
The Wedding Present: “Northampton on a Thursday night: we’re living the dream.” (Live Report)
The best Thursday night in Northampton DiS' Dan Lucas can remember.»
"You see what a horrible misanthrope I am?" - DiS meets Michael Gira of Swans
"It just doesn’t sound right if the guitars don’t ring and you don’t feel it in your body."»
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
It’s hard to figure out why Reflektor has turned out such a disappointing mess.»
Haim - Days are Gone
One of the most enjoyable, likeable records of the year.»
Mazzy Star - Seasons of Your Day
Despite Mazzy Star sounding as good as they always have, Seasons Of Your Day only goes to show that the rest of the world has finally caught up with them.»
Elvis Costello, The Roots - Wise Up Ghost
The combination of one of England’s great lyricists and production from arguably America’s most forward-thinking band resulting in a crisp, funky, even dangerous sounding album as political and as relevant as anything this year.»
Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno - Doobie Wonderland
Wherever Doobie Wonderland is, it sounds fucking great.»
"Cricketers are pretty cool..." - DiS meets The Duckworth Lewis Method
"The thing is cricketers are pretty cool. If you’ve met Michael Atherton, which I’m sure you have at some stage [I never have], I think he could be the next James Bond, he’s an amazingly, incredibly cool guy."»
Crimea River: Farewell Davey McManus & Co.
DiS' Dan Lucas on The Crimea's last ever gig...»
Glen Campbell - See You There
See You There isn’t a record in the highest echelons of this year’s releases, but it’s a genuinely heartfelt and moving, if slightly patchy, record.»
First Listen: Elvis Costello & The Roots – Wise Up Ghost
Heading down to a neat Soho hotel for a couple of beers and a playback of Wise Up Ghost – an intriguing sounding collaboration between Elvis and The Roots – and a brief Q&A with our hero, DiS was so excited he even managed to tear himself away from The Ashes, where Australia were nine down on the brink of an embarrassingly massive first innings deficit.»
Pet Shop Boys - Electric
Oh yeah, they do a Bruce Springsteen cover.»
Icky Blossoms - Icky Blossoms
There’s a suggestion that Icky Blossoms have a Total Life Forever great inside them, but as a début this has just about enough going for it.»
The Duckworth Lewis Method - Sticky Wickets
Sticky Wickets takes the things that makes the loner, the geek, the loser, the tragic feel all warm and fuzzy, and then makes that sound like ELO.»
Beady Eye - BE
In the game of rock-paper-scissors, rock blunts scissors, scissors cut paper and paper smothers rock. In this allegory though it doesn’t really matter which of the three represents super producer Dave Sitek, as rock paper and scissors are all drowned by the tidal wave of warm, brown, gushing shit that is Beady Eye.»
DiS does Primavera Sound 2013
DiS does Barca - again.»
DiS does Primavera 2013 - Who To See?
In order to contravene the hipster image of the festival (as always, every band mentioned in a web comic purporting to mock the P4K intelligentsia is playing this year) I’ll be referring to a colour-coded spreadsheet to bring you this preview. »
Small Black - Limits of Desire
The real problem with Limits of Desire is that it’s a decent album that’s difficult to sell. »
Mark Lanegan, Duke Garwood - Black Pudding
Although a quiet album, Black Pudding is not one that ever seems to tire, always remaining interesting.»
Dear Reader - Rivonia
There’s some evolution here from Dear Reader’s previous work but it remains unapologetically twee.»