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It's not often we get political on Drowned in Sound, but we're sort of going to make an exception this time as the man who is often on his soapbox, Billy Bragg, is doing so again. This time he speaks to Rare.FM, which is part of University College London or, more accurately, their students' radio station. »
Supreme director David Lynch has dipped his finger into the musical water before, most recently with the extremely excellent compilation album Dark Night Of The Soul, which we reviewed here. Now he returns with a full musical offering, releasing his debut electronic single today. This is a very nice surprise of a cold Monday morning. Agree?»
Darren Hayman is not to be confused with Darren Hayes, lead singer of Savage Garden, although I gather this has happened several times, much to Hayman's bemusement. Anyway, Darren Hayman was recently awarded a 9/10 for his current album, The Essex Arms. Read that review here. So, it's undoubtedly a very good thing that he's got some new music on the way, lots of it.»
There are several problems with this Harry Hill album. The first is that it's absolute shite.»
DiS' news editor and recent 10 years of... Nordic series editor, Luke Slater, chooses the sixth pick in our list of 10 records which perhaps didn't get the time and attention we really deserved this year»
A few weeks ago Stereolab - who are still on hiatus, apparently - released Not Music a "new" record. We reviewed it here. To tie in with that release and celebrate what Stereolab have done in the past, we're offering all the records they released on their own Duophonic UHF Disks label.»
We blood won something!»
That's right, even more from Bradford Cox. »
Every year or so we go through a bunch of hip bands with a buzzword in their name. A couple of years ago it was Crystal but this year it seems to be "Twin". As in Twin Sister and Twin Shadow, who is the subject of this news story. Anyway, Twin Shadow have»
Earlier in the year we covered Hjaltalín's landmark concert with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra or, as it's known natively, Sinfóníuhljómsveit Íslands. It was beyond brilliant. Transcendental even. They are to release a DVD of this performance (actually, there were two, but still) entitled Alpanon, but since that's only coming out in Iceland, we thought we'd furnish you with a couple of videos of songs from their set that night.»
This week's Spotify playlist. With some songs from artists that featured in our content in the past week or so. »
There can be fewer greater record labels than the Icelandic-based Bedroom Community, run and founded by man of many talents Valgeir Sigurðsson, and including such prominent and innovative musicians and composers as Ben Frost, Sam Amidon, Nico Muhly and Daníel Bjarnason. People moan about Christmas being thrust upon us early, but who cares? Not us, for Valgeir and co. have announced the release of a Christmas record.»
Sad news.»
It is no secret that we think noisy Leeds lot Pulled Apart By Horses are one of the finest live bands in the country. Their music on record is not too shabby, either, although seeing them in the flesh does surpass everything else, by a massive distance. Brutal they certainly are. Today they gave away SIX videos from a session filmed earlier, and we've got one of them for you to watch. It's 'Meat Balloon' and you can have a peek at it below:»
The people behind All Tomorrow's Parties have announced a new event, this time in London, without any chalets in sight. I guess you could call it a festival, but ATP are calling it I'll Be Your Mirror. Any self-respecting Velvet Underground fan would KNOW»
Some people, somewhere, have been proclaiming Sufjan Stevens' new record, The Age of Adz to be something between the musical equivalent of the return of Jesus and an hour-long orgasm. It might well be, but let's steady on with the praise for now, eh?»
Confirmed.»
Bradford Cox is a man with a finger in many a pie. He is absolutely prolific, with Atlas Sound and, of course Deerhunter, who seem to alternate between them in releasing fantastic albums. This year it was the turn of Deerhunter, but feat not Atlas Sound fans (as if you would be a fan of one and not the other...)!»
Once more it's time for a bit of Future Islands love. Their new album came out earlier this year, was called In Evening Air and was quite short and incredibly excellent. They've been doing the touring thing as well as the "releasing singles thing", for wh»
Explosions In The Sky have announced the release date of their forthcoming full-length record. Well, tentatively, anyway. Their first record since 2007's All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone, will come out in Spring next year on Bella Union, with the group just "putting the finishing touches" to the album at the moment.»
Wilco-branded coffee. Whatever next?»
Thom Yorke is a man who likes to challenge himself in many ways, which probably explains his latest project, in collaboration with Stanley Donwood, who has designed many a record sleeve for Radiohead, you should know and/or remember. This one's a human art installation, I guess.»
Nick Cave is a great man. He's also a very busy man. Following on from the new Grinderman album, Grinderman II, released earlier in the year. He's got more on the horizon, though, including the band he's most famous for being in, The Bad Seeds. He revealed a few nuggets of information on his plans for next year to Spinner.com.»
A few weeks ago, Mogwai confirmed the release of their new record, their first proper full-length studio record since 2008's The Hawk Is Howling. This news was much welcome. Now there's a track available to download from Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will.»
Earlier in the year hit Canadian collective Arcade Fire released a proper Web 2.0 video (and indeed HTML5) for 'We Used To Wait', taken from their current record, The Suburbs. They've now arguably gone one better in making the video for the title track in roping in super director Spike Jonze to have a bash.»
Maybe! Hopefully!»
This week's Spotifriday playlist featuring some supreme cuts from the likes of Napoleon IIIrd, Errors, British Sea Power, James Blake, Twin Shadow and much, much more. Well, a little bit more anyway. »
Listen!»
Esben & The Witch release their debut record early next year, following on from some very impressive early releases indeed. The record is called Violet Cries and comes out through Matador on January 31. The band have now released the tracklisting for that record, which features some old ones as well as some new ones, as you'd expect.»
