The Fangasm: Bring It On by Gomez
A melting pot of escapism, stoner jams, and melodies so on point, you could hang your sombrero on them»
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“The songs are literally about escape”: Gomez on Bring It On At 20
The band talk us through the impact of their seminal, Mercury-winning debut record and its lasting legacy»
DiS Does Clockenflap 2017
Hong Kong is not the most obvious place for a festival, but the stellar lineup delivers a great event»
Clockenflap 2017: The DiS Preview
We're off to Hong Kong for an event with a ridiculously good line up»
"Clichés, dull lyrics, anything pedestrian – you’re in the sh^t" - DiS meets Frightened Rabbit
DiS chats to Frightened Rabbit and premieres a mini-documentary about the making of the new album, featuring brand new unheard material.»
Lost 12 of 2012: Seamus Fogarty God Damn You Mountain
...a collection of folky musings and ghostly field recordings. These are songs about apple groves and howling winds, of thatched roofs, bleating sheep and people greeting you in the street. The songs capture the essence of the Old Country, the sacred cow of emigrants: idealized by those who’ll never get it back, neglecting to recall the reasons why they left it all behind. And yet, Fogarty is a young man still.»
Truck 15: the DiS review
A successful, if unspectacular weekend, then, but the potential to build for next year is present in abundance. »
Steve Von Till, Wino, Scott Kelly - Songs of Townes Van Zandt
It’s difficult to see a place for this in anyone’s collection.»
Truck 15: the DiS preview
That Truck’s been 'resurrected', then, is good news all round. It returns for its fifteenth edition under the fresh stewardship of Ralph Broadbent, he of Y Not Festival, who has replaced founders and long-term custodians Joe and Robin Bennett. »
Loch Lomond - Little Me Will Start A Storm
Like a Michel Gondry movie, you’re drawn in by the gorgeous aesthetics, only to be consumed by the shadowy core. »
The Waterboys - An Appointment with Mr Yeats
An Appointment… continues in the vein of The Waterboys' last album proper, The Book of Lightning, in providing intermittent moments of lucid quality amid oodles of overwrought, forgettable filler.»
Kalli - Last Train Home
A sketchy, difficult affair bogged down in melodrama. »