Drowned In Manchester #11
The eleventh installment of our local scene guide to Manchester....»
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Drowned In Manchester #12
Drowned In Manchester is dead! Long live Drowned In Manchester. »
Green Man 2012: The DiS Review
“[Festivals are] snapshots of an imagined ghost of festivals past, with added corporate sponsorship. And oddly, while the corporate stages and tents get imaginative with their neediness, the thing that's really left wanting is the sense of community »
Goat - World Music
World Music is pretty much just that, a wonder through the traditional folk and more amplified sounds of the planet’s history, yet infused with enough of Goat’s own character to all glue together.»
Green Man Festival Preview – Part Two: What To See
It would appear that this coming weekend in the UK is a bit of a Mad One for festivals. Whilst most of the good ship DiS are drinking to their survival of the great Gateway wars of last week across at Leicester’s Summer Sundae – with yet more up north at Beacons Festival in Skipton – I’m taking another trip down to the Welsh hills to indulge in the delights of Green Man Festival.»
Green Man Festival Preview - Part One
It’s hard to debate the current well-being of the UK festival circuit without coming down on the slightly negative side. »
Mugstar - Ad Marginem
The soundtrack’s dark opulence fits perfectly to the images of the accompanying film.»
Beach House - Bloom
For all their undoubted accomplishment, Beach House seem to have reached their limits as a two-piece, or worse still, have simply finishing running their creative gamut altogether. »
Drowned In Manchester #10 – Festival Preview Spotify Special
There’s a reason this column has become more sporadic in 2012, and it’s not due to a lack of things going on in Manchester. Far from it. In fact it feels like the rush of the musical tide flowing through this city is such that I’m sitting meekly at its ed»
Striving To Find Depths In The Shallows; DiS Meets I Like Trains
Inspired in part by the Nicholas Carr book of the same name,Leeds four-piece I Like Trains' new album, The Shallows, approaches the subject in hand from a variety of different view points. Their sound, meanwhile, has shifted from the more full-sounding guitar bombast of old to a sleeker, more streamlined approach that, in its own way, reflects man’s submergence by technology, electronic patters and rumbles doing battle with vocalist and lyricist David Martin’s now accustomed baritone delivery. »
I Like Trains return with third album and live dates
Leeds' finest I Like Trains have announced full details of their third album and live return - including a show for Drowned In Sound. The Shallows is released on May 7th on I Like Records and can be pre-ordered here. It was recorded with Wild Beasts' pr»
Mmoths - EP1
EP1 is a promising opening account and a rather lovely one at that.»
The Ting Tings - Sounds From Nowheresville
Sounds From Nowheresville is a mish-mash of different things, none of which are really that good.»
Drowned In Sound Manchester presents Blondes live
It’s been a busy couple of weeks up in DiS Manchester HQ; on Monday we announced Walls as our headliners for our Sounds From The Other City stage in Salford on May 6th among a host of other acts. Now we can confirm that on March 29th we’ll be teaming up w»
Walls confirmed for Drowned In Sound stage at Sounds From The Other City
A couple of weeks ago we announced that we were going to be involved with Salford’s grassroots-driven DIY festival Sounds From The Other City. Since then, as well as getting our own stage in order – curated with local promoters and pals Grey Lantern - we’»
Drowned In Sound to host stage at Sounds From The Other City
This year's festival season is again looking like a busy one for us here at DiS with stages in Brighton for The Great Escape and Summer Sundae in Leicester already confirmed. The Great Escape falls on May 10th-12th, but the weekend before that we'll be in»
Porcelain Raft - Strange Weekend
This debut full-length offering from Porcelain Raft is a perfectly charming set of endearingly sweet lo-fi dream-pop, the sort where the emotional signposts are obvious even if the specific words written on them are not.»
Halls - Fragile
Fragile is an EP that’ll see Halls escape the bedroom and find himself outside in daylight’s blinking glare; how he’ll cope with that next is almost as exciting as the disarming charm and beauty of what he’s concocted here.»
Drowned In Manchester #9
As it comes to the end of a year and, by the time this is published, the beginning of a new one, I find myself looking at Manchester and observing a music scene of complete fragmentation.»
Lost ’11 of 2011 - #9: Death Grips Ex-Military
The first time I listened to Ex-Military, it hit me. No, not some thought-bubble realisation, I mean it physically felt like it hit me. Death Grips are a musical embodiment of the rotten core that more and more seek to ignore in the 21st century. »
Gorillaz - The Singles Collection 2001-2011
The Singles Collection 2001-2011 proves that at times Albarn touched on a warped pop genius, and to his credit comes out of the project with his reputation as creative wanderer intact, but from the off the constructed barrier meant that there was always little to really love, songs hidden too much behind their glitteringly presented shells.»
Peaking Lights - 936
If you’ve refrained from taking advantage of more illegal means of hearing this thus far in 2011, you really have no excuse not to listen to this subtly charming record.»
Patrick Kelleher & His Cold Dead Hands - Golden Syrup
As Golden Syrup pushes towards its finale it becomes clear that, aside from a couple of slips, Patrick Kelleher's choices have not been misguided.»
Drowned In Manchester #8
The eighth installment of our local scene guide from our DiS scribe in Manchester...»
Green Man Festival 2011 - The DiS Review
O festival season what ails ye? Why does this fractured summer of 2011 choose to raise its ire with the likes of Truck, Supernormal and the Big Chill? Aye there’s the saturation point, the tough times of the economy, the rising ticket prices; but these were festivals that had dug their own niche, the ones that were presumed solid on the basis that they were doing things “their own way.” The piles of un-stubbed tickets that are left lying in the printers are a metaphor for the festival season, so many would have you believe, ever more available but many fewer taken upon. Thank God for Green Man then...»
Leeds Festival - A DiS Summary
Scribes Simon Jay Catling and Dom Gourlay offer their final thoughts on this year's Leeds Festival...»
Leeds Festival 2011 - Drowned In Sound's Sunday Blog
Day three sort of started happening before we'd really finished day two, a bit of a head fuck for all concerned. Simon Jay Catling, Dom Gourlay and Daniel O'Dell drag their protesting bodies over the finish line. »
Leeds Festival 2011 - Drowned In Sound's Saturday Blog
Day 2 at Leeds saw slightly sunnier climbs - only slightly mind - and, for writers Dom Gourlay and Simon Jay Catling ran rather a long way into day three. You don't want to hear of our whimsical frivolities though; joined by Daniel O'Dell here's what we saw yesterday.»
Leeds Festival 2011 - Drowned In Sound's Friday Blog
With Drowned In Sound's esteemed editor taking a break from Reading this year, he left it to four of his Northern-based chaps to take on the Leeds leg of the weekender. Full review will follow in the week, but here Simon Jay Catling, Dom Gourlay and Daniel O'Dell run the rule over the first day's highlights at Bramham Park.»
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lenses Alien
With their nerve held, this is Cymbals Eat Guitars at an impressively high creative watermark still early in their career. »