Songs Of Freedom: DiS Meets Oumou Sangaré
"Nowadays, relationships between humans are just going down the drain"»
Articles
bekkibemrose has written the following articles:
Downtown Boys - Cost of Living
A whirling dervish of a record»
Broken Social Scene - Hug of Thunder
Happily, Hug of Thunder is far from a letdown»
Do Make Say Think - Stubborn Persistent Illusions
It really is a rarity to find artists this far into their career, and after such a sustained break, sound so fresh and positive»
Jessica Moss - Pools of Light
A trenchantly human record that is sweepingly cinematic in scope»
Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves: DiS Does Girls Music Day
A vital & important event trying to redress gender imbalance in the music industry»
Colin Stetson - All This I Do for Glory
God knows what you call this music – attempting to prescribe a genre seems like a fruitless diversion from something so freakishly sublime»
Happyness - Write In
In defiance of their tiny budget, Happyness have created an audaciously rich sounding record»
Preview: Girls Music Day
We're off to a very worthy event that aims to redress the simply inexcusable gender balance in the music industry»
Laura Marling - Semper Femina
For Marling femininity is less fickle and changeable than mesmerisingly mysterious»
Deep Throat Choir - Be OK
A fine record, and fitting document of the group that created it»
Lawrence English - Cruel Optimism
This is drone on steroids, focused experimentalism, visceral intellectualism»
The Friday Fangasm: The Woods by Sleater-Kinney
Thankfully this wasn’t the last we heard of them»
Max Richter - Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works
Feels like a timeless nod to the past, and yet an inventive ode to Woolf’s modernism»
E.Bias - Emmanuel Bias
A winsome curiosity, and fitting tribute to a lost underground composer»
Soaring Majestically: DiS Meets A Winged Victory For The Sullen
We talk to the duo about their soundtrack to Jalil Lespert's new film, Iris»
Bonobo - Migration
The record will likely serve newer fans of Bonobo better than those that maintain a stronger fondness for his earlier work»
The Flowers of Hell - Symphony No#1
A quietly bold work that is possibly the collective’s most satisfying to date»
Goat - Requiem
They continue to make alluring, fascinating and significant music»
El Perro del Mar - KoKoro
A finely-drawn treat»
Blind Pilot - And Then Like Lions
Sometimes Blind Pilot just fail to excite»
“It’s fucking amazing to watch people be good at stuff": DiS Meets Shura
We spoke to Shura after her recent gig for the charity Shelter.»
DJ Shadow - The Mountain will Fall
Lacks in the main part is a sense of urgency and excitement»
"I try to keep every show like its own little album": DiS Meets Kamasi Washington
Who knew a 3-disc, 172-minute jazz record would resonate with so many people?»
Bob Dylan - Fallen Angels
No one's gonna get an erection over it»
Rufus Wainwright - Take All My Loves - 9 Shakespeare Sonnets
Wainwright has steered it from outright pretentious arsery»
Left With Pictures - Afterlife
A collection of songs that confirm they are a band worthy of the ears of many»
Dr Dog - The Psychedelic Swamp
Far from a bad trip; more like a damn fine party»
Colin Stetson - Sorrow - A Reimagining Of Gorecki's 3rd Symphony
Somehow he has made this work more immediate and pressing»
Explosions In The Sky - The Wilderness
Can retread old ground a little too often»