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Another DiS exclusive for you... Erased Tapes Records have provided us with a full stream of Chapter Two: Konstellation Neu the new album by The British Expeditionary Force, plus a track-by-track guide to the album by the band. They play DiS' stage at The Great Escape in May.»
"It’s funny because ‘Simple Song’ is a very almost jubilant song, it’s very happy and I’m being very positive about some things in my life. And then there’s some real dark songs, like ‘Port of Morrow’, that song is just dark, it’s about how strange it is to be a human being and see human beings dying and human beings killing – that’s heavy dark stuff. There’s songs about love, there’s songs about death, there’s songs about…" - James Mercer»
When James Mercer wrote and recorded the new Shins record Port of Morrow (which is streaming in full, here), he put together a new band to head out on the road with him but who are these strangers lurking in the stage lights? We sent them each a questionnaire to find out a little more about them... »
On Monday, DiS' favourite guitar-thrashing, drum-thrashing, stage-thrashing, crowd-thrashing, duo Blood Red Shoes follow-up the Radio1-bothering Fire Like This with the release of their eagerly anticipated third album. Here, Steven Ansell walks us through the new album In Time To Voices... »
Five videos picked by DiS' editor to fill that void in your Friday... »
DiS returns to Leicester's Summer Sundae on Sunday 19th August to curate our own stage. »
The Shins are back with the new album Port of Morrow. It's out next week in the UK but you can hear it in full before it's out all week on DiS!»
London's Camden Crawl 2012 festival line-up expands...»
Yesterday, winner of DiS' alt-Mercury, The Neptune Music Prize, who also came highly placed in our albums of the year list, SBTRKT, kicked off Lauren Laverne's week of 6 Music tenth anniversary celebrations at Maida Vale. »
This year's festival takes place Little John’s Farm in Reading and Bramham Park in Leeds on the August Bank Holiday Weekend. There are still more names to be announced but the bill so far - which weirdly features The Shins sandwiched between Odd Future and Enter Shikari?! - looks like this...»
Ahead of the albums release next week, you can stream Lee Ranaldo's newie Between The Times and The Tides, here, in full...»
The Association of Independent Music (AIM) confirms second awards show...»
After postings gigs listings all over the world, Radiohead finally announce three UK dates.»
Latitude festival reveals the first taste of its 2012 line-up...»
DiS' end of the week selection of streams and vids, hand-picked by our editor...»
HUNKY DORY: IN CINEMAS MARCH 2 – Win £100 HMV Voucher and Headphones! »
February may be the shortest month of the year but what it lacked in days, it made up for in releases. Here's our editors picks of the month in a (hopefully) digestible format including our albums of the month and a Spotify playlist, as well as the most read pages of February's 2,677,492 pageviews.»
DiS' favourite Icelandic sculpter of heart-fracturingly beautiful post-classical music Ólafur Arnalds has created a soundtrack for a film starring the likes of Demi Moore, and you can listen to it in full here.»
Before we tell you about the rest of the names, we're very excited to confirm that Errors - who've released one of the albums of the year, so far - will be headlining one of DiS' three curated nights at the festival. We've also confirmed the first UK date for Eight And A Half, the new project from some of the chaps from The Stills and Broken Social Scene, who sound like this:»
Drowned in Sound's editor talks to one of the artists of 2011 about one of the albums of 2011...»
Andrew Bird has been a favourite of DiS' for many years so it's with great pleasure we premiere his new album Break It Yourself.»
Fanfarlo's new album features a bridge on the cover, so we thought it'd be interesting to find out what their favourite bridges actually are...»
CFCF who've previously remixed the likes of HEALTH, Holy Ghost!, Porcelain Raft, Owen Pallett, memoryhouse, Junior Boys and Fever Ray, and have a few releases to their name, have morphed Bear in Heaven's drifting but rich 'The Reflection of You' into a svelte, spring-sun drenched dittie. In fact, you can almost imagine Erland Oye bopping along to it like one of those Turntable.fm avatars. »
As you may have noticed over the past few weeks, we've scrapped our weekly Spotifriday playlist in favour of a monthly playlist. Instead we're now doing this digestible weekly post of five things we think you coulda/shoulda heard this week but if you didn't, here they are, in one place with play buttons and everything... »
SYNTHETICA is about being able to identify the original in a long line of reproductions. It's about what is real vs what is artificial.»
Once again those noizy chaps from LA (HEALTH) have gone and done a sterling remix of Crystal Castles. The track is called 'Suffocation' and you probably need another remix in your life like you need a cup-holder on your ankle but seriously, is very very special indeed... plus Ethan Kath has made a video for the original version of the song.»
The clock counting down to the release of the new Shins album is tick-ticking louder by the day, and to whet your appetite further, Mr Mercer and co. have finally unveiled the video for 'Simple Song'.»
Sean Adams writes... I love this record because it’s the exact album I was hoping M83 was going to make (just for me) last year. I love it because it’s everything School of Seven Bells' soaring debut promised, and all the things the follow-up wasn’t to be. I love it because it’s shoegaze gone a bit headlight-staring, drums-as-guns, guitars-a’blaring then guitars-gone-misty, all the while I’m a reviewer-gone-gushing-puddle-of... »
A Rufus Wainwright album teaser, exclusively for Drowned in Sound... plus news of the first single from the album and a stream of a new song entitled 'Montauk'.»
If you follow DiS' editor on Twitter or have seen the "School of Seven Bells new album is brilliant" thread on our board, you'll be aware there is a lot of love in the air for the third album from Brooklyn-based disco-gaze duo Benjamin Curtis and Alejandra Deheza.»
