The Fangasm: Souvlaki by Slowdive
Such a stellar specimen of shoegaze that it’s hard to imagine it wasn’t always lauded»
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Cherry Glazerr - Stuffed and Ready
Cherry Glazerr are an excellent example of what happens when artists are given time to cook»
Cat Power - Wanderer
The minimalism of Wanderer is a shock to the system»
Drinks - Hippo Lite
That shift in attitude (or maybe in life) where quirky can be subtle instead of boisterous»
U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
She has been building towards In a Poem Unlimited, and she has arrived here at exactly the right time»
Noveller - A Pink Sunset for No One
could leave you picking apart layers in the songs for hours»
Widowspeak - Expect the Best
Once that melancholic beauty sets in it’s hard to shake»
Kevin Morby - City Music
If he wants to continue finding new ways to explore these same ideas over and over again, it will be worth listening every time»
!!! - Shake the Shudder
The album is filled with a spirit of personal survival»
The Friday Fangasm: City And Eastern Songs by Jeffrey Lewis
He makes being a working artist still sound pretty romantic»
Angel Olsen - My Woman
Olsen’s most ambitious album yet»
The Avalanches - Wildflower
The vibe of an esoteric Gorillaz album»
The Kills - Ash & Ice
Where it’s good, it’s almost maddeningly good»
Cate Le Bon - Crab Day
All weirdness has a little sadness at heart»
Hookworms - Hookworms (expanded edition)
If you’ve let it go this long without adding Hookworms’ debut to your collection you’ve run out of excuses.»
DiS meets Petra Haden
Amanda Farah speaks to Petra Haden about her forthcoming performance as part of David Byrne's Meltdown...»
PINS - Wild Nights
Even if they wrap themselves in prettier packaging, they’re as sharp as ever.»
Young Guv - Ripe 4 Luv
Comparisons to his other bands should be incredibly short lived.»
The Czars - Best of
The Czars were a solidly average band.»
The Vaselines - V for Vaselines
Who knows what The Vaselines will do next.»
Eugene McGuinness - Chroma
Eugene McGuinness hasn’t lost it yet.»
Smoke Fairies - Smoke Fairies
A record of future potential, rather than wasted potential.»
4AD Week: The Women of 4AD - Throwing Muses, Lush, The Breeders
To mark the release of Martin Aston's book, Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD, DiS celebrates one of our favourite labels with a series of pieces exploring the label's history.»
Múm - Smilewound
Smilewound requires something of an adjustment of expectations. But don’t get too comfortable; múm’ll undoubtedly throw us for a loop with their next album.»
Tunng - Turbines
Less the sound of a band losing their edge and more the sound of them finding their zen.»
Soap&Skin - Sugarbread
The bar has been set high, but if this is any indication of what can be expected from Soap&Skin's next, as-yet unannounced album, it’s worth getting excited. It’s worth getting very excited.»
Talk Normal - Sunshine
If Talk Normal are not a guitar band, then they are a noise band, and an intimidatingly good one at that.»
Prince Rama - Top Ten Hits of the End of the World
The surreality and absurdity of dance music from the apocalypse is a joyful alternative to the surreality and absurdity of disaster movies and real life disasters.»
Mission Of Burma - Unsound
Mission of Burma have successfully walked that fine line between being consistent and running out of ideas.»
Alex Winston - King Con
Unlike artists who rely on personal experiences for their material, there are enough oddities in the world to supply Alex Winston for many albums to come.»