A Cold Weekend in Hull: The Return of COUM Transmissions
The founding members reunite for a celebratory weekend»
Articles
benfyffemusic has written the following articles:
The Bug vs Earth - Concrete Desert
Something tangibly unique in the catalogues of two legendary figures»
Pharmakon - Contact
Another excellent entry in her catalogue of searingly distressing, and physically exhausting, noise»
Gnod - Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
Just Say No… is probably the definitive expression – to date – of Gnod’s caustic sonic preferences»
Wolf Eyes - Undertow
One can only hope plenty of new ears are drawn into the band’s orbit through this release»
Kassel Jaeger & Jim O'Rourke - Wakes on Cerulean
Destined to spend plenty of time on repeat for those who fall for its charms»
Uniform - Wake in Fright
If you’re looking for a soundtrack for punching Nazis in 2017, you might have just found it»
Articulate Silences, Ambient Sounds #30: End Of 2016 Edition
It's been another great year for Ambient music»
Metallica - Hardwired… To Self-Destruct
How is it possible for a band like Metallica, with all the resources they have at their disposal, to end up sounding so incredibly weedy?»
"If you do yoga you’re not a proper Christian”: DiS Meets Falco
DiS has a chin wag with the ever entertaining Andrew Falkous about his various projects»
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation
A final statement that systematically tears the band’s impressive legacy to pieces»
Articulate Silences, Ambient Sounds #29
Petrels (Exclusive New Track), Ian William Craig, Klara Lewis, Valerio Tricoli and much, much more...»
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
It’s hard not to feel that the idea of reviewing this album right now is utterly ridiculous, serving no real purpose other than to reflect the ultimate crassness of music journalism»
Hypnopazūzu - Create Christ, Sailor Boy
Doesn’t quite push either of its creators as far as one might wish»
Swans - The Glowing Man
The Glowing Man is impressive, if perhaps unessential»
Tim Hecker - Love Streams
Love Streams_ is astonishingly direct»
Three Trapped Tigers - Silent Earthling
There aren’t many bands in the UK who can even compete with Three Trapped Tigers»
Horse Latitudes - Primal Gnosis
Certainly worthy of the seal of approval»
War Against the Self: DiS Meets Årabrot
Årabrot have – for those in the know – long been considered one of the finest underground rock outfits in the world.»
Qluster - Echtzeit
Subdued, almost self-consciously pretty music largely constructed by a man who has made a career out of sublime soundcraft»
Årabrot - The Gospel
Årabrot’s most compulsively playable record to date»
Venetian Snares - Traditional Synthesizer Music
the best Venetian Snares album since Filth»
Articulate Silences, Ambient Sounds #28
Ben Bland takes a look at the best recent ambient sounds...»
Ulver - Atgclvlsscap
A triumphant departure from the confines of the temporal.»
DiS Meets Hey Colossus
2015 saw the band release two killer albums (their eighth and ninth) in a single year...»
"There's a lot more to Opeth than death metal": DiS Meets Mikael Åkerfeldt
Formed in Stockholm in 1990, Opeth have become one of the most influential and distinctive groups of the last twenty-five years. DiS caught up with Åkerfeldt to discuss the band’s rich history...»
Swans - White Light from the Mouth of Infinity/Love of Life (reissue box set)
Essential additions to the collection of any Swans fan»
Post War Glamour Girls - Feeling Strange
At this rate of development Post War Glamour Girls are set to be a band of rare distinction indeed»
Teeth of the Sea - Highly Deadly Black Tarantula
Not quite the beast that its title suggests»
Wolf Eyes - I Am A Problem: Mind in Pieces
Weird, wonderful and moderately imposing. Wolf Eyes remain a band to treasure»