“We needed to remind ourselves why we started this band”: DiS Meets Warpaint
“It seemed like a good idea at the time. In practice, it didn’t really work.”»
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Thee Oh Sees - A Weird Exits
For the first time in a while, Thee Oh Sees have their eyes fixed firmly on new ground»
“Music helps balance out the madness in the world”: DiS Meets M. Ward
“I’m going to stop reading the New York Times. I think that’s what the answer is.”»
“It was time to put the leather jacket on”: DiS meets Wild Beasts
DiS chats to the Kendal quartet about the changes they made for their fifth album.»
Band of Horses - Why are You OK
Band of Horses have rediscovered the magic of old here»
“Guitar music’s become a fucking museum”: DiS meets The Kills
“It’s exhausting, having to drag yourself back from doing a bit of a disappearing act.”»
Tegan and Sara - Love You to Death
The world’s most brilliant pop group?»
Richard Ashcroft - These People
There’s no commentary here, social or otherwise. It’s just Ashcroft on the same lyrical autopilot»
“I don’t want to lose my mind again”: DiS meets Frightened Rabbit
“I’d lost sight of why we were still doing it.”»
Deftones - Gore
A record of sweeping complexity, that captures the raw energy Deftones have always thrived upon»
Gwen Stefani - This is what the Truth Feels Like
Maybe, just maybe, Stefani is starting to get somewhere again»
The Cautionary Tales of Zachary Cole Smith: DiS meets DIIV
“It’s intense that this record’s finally going to be out in the world. I think a lot about how it might have been, if all this stuff in my life hadn’t happened.” Four years ago, DIIV released their first record, Oshin, into a world that was by no means c»
“I’m a perfectionist, but I’m flexible, too” - DiS meets Jenny Lee Lindberg
“The more you play, the more confidence you begin to have in your own musicianship.”»
“We’ve got some ground to make up”: DiS meets Silversun Pickups
“The last record was a learning process. There were definitely some growing pains.” At the turn of the decade, Silversun Pickups found themselves at a crossroads, just two albums into what was still a fledgling career. Their 2007 debut, Carnavas, plays l»
Spoon - Gimme Fiction (Deluxe Edition)
Gimme Fiction sounds every bit as fresh and bracing as it did a decade ago»
"Musically, I’ve been drifting back home": DiS meets ex-Death Cab's Chris Walla
"I’ve been drifting back home, towards what I was doing twenty years ago when I first met Ben and when, ultimately we started Death Cab."»
“I was chief of police, as Martin Brody says in Jaws”: DiS meets Guy Garvey
Everything you’ve heard about Garvey is true...»
Shigeto - Intermission
Nobody’s capturing that midnight mood quite like Shigeto at the minute»
Keith Richards - Crosseyed Heart
A record with no shortage of genuine depth»
Beirut - No No No
Condon hasn’t just left the darkness of the past few years behind; he’s stepped out of the shadow of his early works, too, casting off musical, as well as emotional, baggage»
“Nature and spirituality run through this record”: DiS meets My Morning Jacket
“We hadn’t planned for it to sound this way or that, but we were in such beautiful surroundings..."»
Lou Barlow - Brace the Wave
This feels like an opportunity missed»
“We’ve been dismantling the rules since Antidotes”: DiS meets Foals
“We thought it’d make a change to make a record and live hedonistically at the same time.”»
Mac DeMarco - Another One
It must be galling for his contemporaries to witness the ease with which he fires off collections like Another One»
Sorority Noise - Departed, Joy
This is the sound of a group still finding their feet»
Sharon van Etten - I Don't Want to Let You Down
Serves only to fuel the anticipation that Are We There rightly stoked.»
Florence + The Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful is ultimately a pleasant surprise»
DiS meets Best Coast - “I’m past worrying about what other people think”
Joe Goggins speaks to Bethany Cosentino...»
Mumford And Sons - Wilder Mind
This is the record that anybody with any sense saw coming an absolute mile off»