Green Man 2017: The DiS Review
There's plenty of magic as Green Man hits 15, even if it wasn't one of the stronger years»
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Weezer - Pacific Daydream
Pacific Daydream can probably be called Weezer’s worst album.»
Avey Tare - Eucalyptus
Have we finally been gifted the opus Avey hinted at ten years ago?»
Feist - Pleasure
Arguably the equal to Feist’s benchmark The Reminder»
Rocking The House: Gorillaz Return
Gorillaz are back, and this time, have brought all their friends»
Tennis - Yours Conditionally
Most of the time, they drift through a mid-tempo lilt; earnest, weepy and sometimes saccharine; walking a fine line between easy listening and background music»
Blanck Mass - World Eater
Fuck Buttons draw power from building upwards; Blanck Mass draws power from hurtling forwards»
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - The Tourist
On The Tourist, Ounsworth has rediscovered his voice»
"For me, it’s easier to indulge sad passions": DiS Meets How To Dress Well
Russell Warfield finds Tom Krell in a transitional place and deep into self-discovery.»
Britney Spears - Glory
Against all apparent odds, Glory is her best album in ten years»
Slow Club - One Day All of This Won't Matter Anymore
It’s never showy, it’s never flashy, but t’s always as good as Slow Club have ever been»
Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost
A record that doesn’t cohere very strongly, presumably by design»
Julianna Barwick - Will
It’s the gentle tension between rigidity and fluidity which makes this a brilliant record»
9Bach - Anian
There are choices from which Anian struggles to recover, no matter how charming and intricate the arrangements frequently are»
Suuns - Hold/Still
Suuns are masters of building unresolved tension»
How DiS Celebrated Piano Day 2016
DiS' Russell Warfield popped along to Town Hall Hotel in London for an elegant evening of piano-ing.»
Guy Andrews - Our Spaces
A success in innovating around established juxtapositions»
Something like Dadaism: Animal Collective discuss new album Painting With
Animal Collective on their most purely enjoyable record to date.»
Saul Williams - MartyrLoserKing
As ever, Williams is at his absolute best when he most fully gives himself to poetry»
Françoise Hardy - 2016 reissues
Then and now, her records are unmistakably the output of the same incredible artist»
Indian Rock: Dishoom's Slip-Disc
DiS meets restaurateur Shamil Thakrar and curator of Bombay rock from the sixties, via London, and back again.»
Lubomyr Melnyk - Rivers and Streams
Melnyk is as impressive and immersive as ever»
Ellie Goulding - Delirium
Ellie Goulding has never hidden her ambition to be a pop star of the highest magnitude. Back in 2009, when she was opening for Pas»
Grimes - Art Angels
Grimes’ most coherent record is also her most diverse»
Shopping - Why Choose
Shopping manage to simultaneously sound amped and jaded»
Against Me! - 23 Live Sex Acts
This brash, well curated selection from their last tour is a fantastic appraisal of where Against Me! are in 2015»
Green Man 2015: the DiS review
The whole weekend is simply a must-do»
Lady Lamb - After
Playfulness and the adventure are the album’s greatest assets»
Christopher Owens - Chrissybaby Forever
A massive, honest mess, loaded with love»
Nils Frahm - Music for the Motion Picture Victoria
A strong stand-alone mood piece»