Paradise City: DiS Does End Of The Road 2018
One of the most perfect music events anywhere»
Articles
ruthimogen has written the following articles:
Slug - HiggledyPiggledy
HiggledyPiggledy is a lot of fun»
Tune-Yards - I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life
I Can feel You Creep Into My Private Life is an album very much of its time, and very much needed»
Sylvan Esso - What Now
One to download if you need a little pre-Christmas pick-me-up»
Minus The Bear - VOIDS
It has a hopeful beauty»
Public Service Broadcasting - Live at Brixton
This double LP isn’t just any old gig»
DiS Does In The Woods 2016
Spending time close to nature is a very good example of how to live»
Various - Refugee
A fantastically broad and intriguing selection of music from talented artists across the folky world»
Ben Folds - So There
This album has its dancing shoes straddling very different musical camps and somehow manages to bind them together with skill and personality»
BEAK>/ - Split EP
There’s something in it for everyone, but because the packets are so darned small, somehow you come away a little unsatisfied»
88 Cymbal Players: Beating back the Boredoms
When is a gig not a gig? Boredoms at the Barbican Centre 27/06/15»
Mates of State - You're Going to Make It
Jason and Kori’s voices haven’t aged a day»
The Phantom Band - Fears Trending
A beautifully cohesive narrative flow.»
Live review: Jamie T, Alexandra Palace, London, 14/11/14
It is impossible to miss the fact Jamie T has come on a long journey»
In the Woods festival 2014: the DiS review
And so for the ninth year we tumble down Laurel Collective’s rabbit hole and into a wooded wonderland deep within the Kent countryside.»
Yann Tierson - (Infinity)
The whole album echoes and clatters, is washed in with the tide and the dragged back out to sea.»
Silent Front - Trust
Trust mostly finds Silent Front doing what they do best; heavy, shouty, energetic songs the likes of which are best listened to live with beer.»
The Leisure Society - Alone Aboard the Ark
The Leisure Society have certainly woven a kind of magic here, but with all their era-hopping it falls a little short of the climaxes of their live performances.»
Olafur Arnalds - For Now I Am Winter
For Now I Am Winter is an album of great contrasts that demands attention, not to mention repeated listenings, to draw out the beauty.»
Tweak Bird - Undercover Cops
For a long weekend’s recording session, this is no work of musical genius, but it’s about as much fun as you can hope to get out of two men and a recording studio.»
Two Gallants - The Bloom and the Blight
As Two Gallants head comfortably towards new and heavier ground, it could be that the interplay between this and their old quasi-emo style is wearing thin.»
alt-j - An Awesome Wave
Whatever alt-j were aiming for with their debut album, they have managed to prove their value as talented musicians, literary enthusiasts and imagery aficionados. »
Skinny Lister - Forge & Flagon
If you like your folk sprinkled with a dash of fun then look no further.»
Joyce Manor - Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired
As the title suggests, here’s a band skipping from one musical fragment to the next with the reckless abandon of youth, trying out ideas, finding their strengths. »
Jenny Gillespie - Belita
An enjoyable step along Gillespie's engrossing journey of perpetual reinvention.»
Blood Red Shoes - In Time To Voices
All the passion and intimacy of the never ending stream of live shows that have been keeping the pair busy around the world since the release of Box of Secrets in 2008.»
Elfin Saddle - Devastates
Conceptually driven and zealous in their music, Elfin Saddle certainly have a lot to say for themselves and a unique, technically brilliant way of saying it.»
Cursive - I am Gemini
In a lyrical and musical exploration of the themes of duality, Cursive have come out with a conflicted gem.»