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In the past it's been all too easy to revel in Marissa Nadler's astonishing voice. Little Hells reveals a different side to the songstress; visceral and concentrated - the ten best songs she’s ever written, beautiful and merciless as diamond bullets.»
Merriweather Post Pavilion is truly deserving of the glowing appraisals and hysteria that have greeted its release. This is an album that's about the rush; the rush of life, the rush of electricity, the rush of joy, joy unbounded.»
Some records slip beneath nearly every radar. DiS even missed some of our writers' favourites from our end of year list (either because they hadn't been reviewed or mentioned by their peers). These are individual writers favourites of the year, records which they suggest, nay they demand, you take the time to investigate. So, these were the eight that you and we should have been celebrating...»
Some records slip beneath nearly every radar. DiS even missed some of our writers' favourites from our end of year list (either because they hadn't been reviewed or mentioned by their peers). These are individual writers favourites of the year, records which they suggest, nay they demand, you take the time to investigate. So, these were the eight that you and we should have been celebrating...»
Some records slip below nearly every radar. DiS even missed some of our writers' favourites from our end of year list (either because they hadn't been reviewed or mentioned by their peers). So, these were the eight that you and we should have been celebrating, had they not been lost...»
DiS asked eight contributors to put together a ten track mix of favourite songs from 2008. Being awful nerds, they did so almost immediately... Plus we want to know: What's on your 2008 mixtape? »
The class of '03/'04 have had a weird year. We took a listen to the Killers simple and fun new album. »
Disclaimer: nobody sees everything at an ATP festival. So here are my top ten moments of a resoundingly back on form ATP, the best since Dirty Three.»
Murmur’s continued potency is that its magic refuses forensic explanation. Contextualise it in indie history all you like, but ultimately Murmur stands alone, a perfect circle.»
The Society For The Advancement Of Inflammatory Consciousness isn’t hit or miss – it’s a bunch of songs that sound like they simply weren’t done well enough. »
Surprisingly, horses and unsavoury sexual accessories are off the menu as (People's Voice Prize nominated) Of Montreal’s pervert-in-chief shares five things he loves with DiS.»
Tonight's opening 'Snowflake In A Hot World' was always one of the new record's better tracks, but here it's borderline transcendental, a maelstrom of luminescent keys and bone-rattling drum patterns that swirl higher and higher like a crackling cloud of fireflies...»
The trouble with compilations of music by The Smiths is that they released the two best ones – Hatful Of Hollow and Louder Than Bombs – during their own mayfly lifespan, while the singles have been collected in any number of permutations since.»
Shellac do not dick around with their fancy dress. Todd Trainer is Dracula (he looks the same). Steve Albini is The Mummy and remains completely swathed in bandages throughout. Scariest of all, Bob Weston is wearing a suit. Oh, hold on, he's Frankenstein, and stays in character all night, addressing the audience in grunts and groans only, even during the Q&A. The sound isn't quite so militarily crisp as it should be, but screw it, this is Shellac, man
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Okay then, hands up, who thinks Johnny Borrell is a prick? Wow... that's a lot of hands. Well, in that case you should totally che»
Welcome to our special OH OBAMA WEEK! Or oh-no DiS does politics week!
We begin on the eve of an election that's fired the imagination of musicians and the young like none before it (probably), DiS looks back at some on the musical, um, highs of the last year and a half's campaigning...»
Berlin: Live At St Anne's Warehouse is basically one of the most creepily eloquent records of Lou Reed's career, tarted up in the sort of bombastic style that ironically may see it received better in the classic rockin' days of 1973. Yet it's genuinely enjoyable and, against all odds, it has tapped into its parent record's damaged power. »
The Organ should have been contenders. And heck, for a while they were: weaving lonely magic from the threads of the night, this quintet of introverted, dysfunctional Canadian women ended their as career minor music press darlings, all poised for a future that never happened.»
The Rhumb Line has a power beyond the sum of its immaculately crafted chamber pop parts»
From The Rolling Stones to Arctic Monkeys, the history of debut albums is the history of youth's fleeting fire being used to tempe»
Before our shiny 'n' new site arrives we thought we'd introduce another new article type»
Skeletal Lamping is so psychotically overambitious, so ballsy, bewildering, beautiful, mad, terrifying, romantic, depraved, unwieldy, illogical and just plain wrong that it shames the aspirations of near enough anyone you might call Of Montreal's peers»
Apparently Amanda Palmer's main reason for choosing to dub The Dresden Dolls' music 'Brechtian punk cabaret' was so people would stop calling them goths»
It must be a bit of a bugger being Brendan Canning, aka the guy from Broken Social Scene who isn't in another band and isn't Kevin»
Guapo are a delicate creature - the band's latest LP Elixir isn't for day to day use, but to stun you on special occasions»
