Guide to 2011 - Part 1: Albums DiS is looking forward to in 2011
In part one, reviews editor Andrzej Lukowski highlights the eleven records he's most looking forward to hearing. »
Articles
lukowski has written the following articles:
Suuns - Zeroes QC
Suuns have the potential to do more than just throw a cool clutch of songs together. Dammit chaps, we’re supposed to be creating art. »
White Lies - Ritual
Bless White Lies, but the Ealing trio really are an open goal of a band. »
KC Accidental - Captured Anthems for an Empty Bathtub/Anthems for the Could've Bin Pills
If you miss the way Broken Social Scene were, KC Accidental's records are a window back to a special time.»
ATP Godspeed You! Black Emperor: the DiS review
This weekend last, Noel Gardner, Rory Gibb and Andrzej Lukowski descended upon Butlins, Minehead, and unanimously failed to see Boban Markovi?'s drooled over set. Ho hum: Emeralds were worth it. Here is what they did instead.»
ATP preview: Plan B mag meets Godspeed You! Black Emperor
In advance of Godspeed You! Black Emperor's return at ATP at the weekend, now seems like a good time to share Efrim's thoughts on the band's founding, in the 'transcript' of an 'interview' conducted for the late, great Plan B magazine.»
Teeth Of The Sea - Your Mercury
Teeth of the Sea are a band from London who make music that would definitely have been called post rock in the past; whatever it is now, it's pretty awesome. »
Lost 10 of '10 - #3: Holy Fuck Latin
As DiS's Lost 10 of '10 week rolls merrily on, DiS albums monkey Andrzej Lukowski laments the world's gentle ignoring of Holy Fuck's third album.»
Liars, Sian Alice Group at Heaven, London, South East England, Thu 11 Nov
There’s not a lot to report: good band with good live reputation plays good show in venue with famously good sound system. It’s always nice to be reminded, though.»
Bruce Springsteen - The Promise
Keep your sense of perspective and remember that The Promise really is an off-cuts record, and you’ll find it’s a staggeringly good one.»
Wire, Factory Floor at The Lexington, London, UK, Mon 08 Nov
Wire make their live return in a wee London pub, with noisy scamps Factory Floor in support.»
Dreamend - So I Ate Myself, Bite By Bite
If Dreamend isn’t quite the master, he’s way beyond being an apprentice.»
Help Marissa Nadler record her new album and receive nice things
Help Marissa Nadler fund her new record, yeah?»
The Concretes - WYWH
The Concretes are no longer the indie band they once were; but they’re not quite the pop group they could be.»
Supersonic 2010: The DiS Review
This year DiS's Mark Ward and Andrzej Lukowski went down to Birmingham's Supersonic festival, where they bore witness to Swans and some other bands. Here is their story.»
warpaint - The Fool
The Fool is a retro guitar record that often sounds like it was assembled by a spectacularly talented committee.»
Win!!! A pair of tickets to Supersonic 2010
We have two tickets to this weekend's Supersonic Festival to give away. There are lots of good bands playing including Godflesh, Napalm Death, Hallogallo, Swans AND MORE.»
Belle And Sebastian - Write About Love
A firm template for the future, allowing this band that was never going to grow up to finally do so with grace and class.»
"If I make sense, I fail". DiS meets Of Montreal
According to the full version of the above photo, there are potentially a full 13 people in the ever-evolving Of Montreal's current incarnation. As you know, just one of them really matters: Kevin L Barnes, the genius/fruitloop mastermind of all ten of their albums to date, including last month's funky/fucked up False Priest. On the eve of a walloping great three date UK tour, DiS caught up with Mr Barnes to talk about fish slaughtering ex-girlfriends, the futility of religion, and why you can't change the world via the medium of lampshades.»
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
It’s Cox’s inability to totally connect to an audience that makes him such a spectacularly special songwriter.»
Manic Street Preachers - Postcards from a Young Man
For a band so obsessed with invoking their past, you do wish the Manics weren't so reluctant to throw in a bit of the old grit and ardour.»
Of Montreal - False Priest
The darkness that has clouded Kevin Barnes’s soul for the last few records has palpably abated.»
Offset 2010: the DiS review
Needs Luke to add his bit then GTG»
Hurts - Happiness
Happiness promises the rough edges and absurdity of one era’s pop, but for the most part gives the mum-friendliness of the next.»
Everything Everything - Man Alive
Let’s take a moment to survey the Brit indie scene of 2010, and rejoice in the knowledge that Everything Everything are at the heart of it.»
Women - Public Strain
The start of something greater for a band touched with greatness from the off.»
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
In a nutshell, The Suburbs' two most important achievement are to a) be good and b) not be a rehash of its predecessors.»
Stars - The Five Ghosts
It’s bizarre to think that Stars would have chosen to record such a flat, drizzly album as this.»
RPA and the United Nations of Sound - United Nations of Sound
He’s Richard Paul Ashcroft and he can do whatever the fuck he wants, thankyouverymuch. »
R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction: Deluxe Edition
Birthed in a haunted old South, forged in a drab England, paranoid, sensual, nonsensical and true, Fables... was undeniably something of a diversion on the route to indie rock stardom. Yet for many fans this moon-touched night walk exceeds nigh on all the records that followed.»