Articulate Silences, Ambient Sounds #27
Members of NiN and Slowdive, alongside Pole, some post-industrial noise, deep drones, and cello.»
Articles
benfyffemusic has written the following articles:
The Black Heart Rebellion - People, When You See the Smoke, Do Not Think It Is Fields They're Burning
There’s something really rather impressive about a band that set their stall out so clearly in a direction that seems counter to any prevailing trends»
Hey Colossus - Radio Static High
Radio Static High has surely knocked the doubters out of the park»
Deafheaven - New Bermuda
New Bermuda is good enough to blow Deafheaven’s sceptics away»
Incubate 2015: the DiS review
A festival for true explorers of sound and culture»
Svalbard - One Day All This Will End
Svalbard are right at the front of the pack when it comes to the current British post-hardcore scene»
King Midas Sound and Fennesz - Edition 1
Edition 1 is a sumptuous sounding record»
Incubate 2015: the DiS preview
It’s the end of the festival season… and DiS is heading to Incubate in Tilburg in the south of the Netherlands»
Low - Ones and Sixes
Another subtly heart-rending effort from a band that remains one of the very finest in the world»
ArcTanGent 2015: The DiS review
By rights, ArcTanGent shouldn’t work…»
Destroyer - Poison Season
Daniel Bejar is the songwriter of his generation less because he says what he means than because he means what he says»
ArcTanGent 2015: the DiS preview
It’s less than a week now until the third edition of Bristol-based ArcTanGent festival»
Frank Turner - Positive Songs For Negative People
Every song here is amongst the least memorable that Turner’s ever written»
Liberez - All Tense Now Lax
Brilliant because of the way it flits disconcertingly between the two extremes presented in its title»
Tim Bowness - Stupid Things that Mean the World
Another fine entry into the enviable discography of one of the most sadly underrated of British songwriters»
"I Will Never Give In": DiS Meets Refused's Dennis Lyxzén
Dennis Lyxzén: "Of course with a seventeen year gap the differences in what we are doing will naturally be amplified"»
Envy - Atheist's Cornea
There was a time when Envy were tremendously exciting»
Articulate Silences, Ambient Sounds #26
Featuring Her Name is Calla, Greg Haines, Fennesz, William Basinski, Adam Wiltzie and lots more.»
Vennart - The Demon Joke
An utter joy of a record on several levels»
Refused - Freedom
A superb case for the band’s continuing musical, as well as lyrical, relevancy»
High On Fire - Luminiferous
This is the sound of one of the twenty-first century’s best heavy bands»
KEN mode - Success
More recognisable as a record produced by Steve Albini than it is as a KEN mode album.»
Ekoplekz - Reflektionz
The sound of a musician intent on honing his craft to the point where it’s more or less as close to perfection as it will ever be»
Rolo Tomassi - Grievances
A band that sound like they could do anything they put their mind to.»
Articulate Silences, Ambient Sounds #25 incl. Petrels Album Stream
Featuring the Denovali Festival, William Basinski, Wolfgang Voigt, Alva Noto and more.»
The Fall - Sub-Lingual Tablet
To expect something as perfect as Hex Enduction Hou or This Nation’s Saving Grace in 2015 would be ludicrous»
Holly Herndon - Platform
This is digital age avant-garde sound art put through a pop prism»
And So I Watch You from Afar - Heirs
It’s hard not to feel that the band are using the same tricks over and over again»
Enablers - The Rightful Pivot
A taut, well-balanced record that moves swiftly when it needs to and lingers elsewhere»
The Mountain Goats - Beat the Champ
A fun, but deeply human, record.»