Fiver - Eventually something cool will happen Review by Matthew Willson "Quirky" is the word that came to mind on first hearing this album - right from the first song, "Horse pill vector", odd song ...

Kenny Anderson (aka King Creosote) & Jon Hopkins talk us through their album, Diamond Mine. Described by King Creosote as a "soundtrack to a romanticised version of a life lived in a Scottish coastal ...

What's New? We're calling a the new era of Drowned in Sound an "audio publication" because it's a magazine-style podcast, with a singles club on our independent label, which acts a bit like a magazine ...

If you head over to our new Substack newsletter, you can read much more about these records, see a longer list, and keep in touch with DiS by subscribing - as from January I'm sending out weekly album ...

For once, Tom Barman is apprehensive. Not about tonight’s dEUS show, but the two-hour DJ set he’s been booked to play at the official after party. “What has happened in the past is this ...

That same year Kenji Ozawa of Flipper’s Guitar would release his popular and critically adored second album Life which blended Shibuya-kei and ska music, while his fellow bandmate Keigo would release ...

Like so many aspects of popular culture, radio has been labelled as ‘dead’ by many commentators, usually old hacks struggling with the changing dynamics between audience and media, trying to denounce ...

It is totally reductive to describe Kate Bush as a leotarded kook with starey eyes, a piercing voice and twitchy dance moves, but it’s understandable enough that this is the version of her that has ...

Teenage Fanclub emerged from the scene that's since gone on to be known as C86; you'd all played in various bands before such as The Boy Hairdressers, The Soup Dragons, and BMX Bandits. Do you feel ...

It's album of the year timeLet Them Eat Chaos In the conclusion to his review of this critically-celebrated opus, Nick Roseblade said: “ Let Them Eat Chaos yet again showcases not only Tempest’s ...

This year, Kula Shaker release K 2.0 – a companion to their seminal debut, K, released in September 1996. At the time of this interview, I'm huddled in a quiet corner of a restaurant in New Delhi and ...

From one bunch of music lovers to another: Help us resuscitate our site and rebuild our infamous forums. Due to old code and a lack of investment over the years, it currently costs us over £700 per ...