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 ...

Au Revoir Simone - The Bird Of Music Review by Sean Adams last para needs clarifying The album is peppered with a hushed breeze as if it was composed at a sleep-over trying not to wake their parents ...

You might have noticed that Drowned in Sound has been on a reflective pause since 2019. We've been pondering and perfecting what a fully rejuvenated DiS would look like in the years to come. The good ...

Back in 2019, Drowned in Sound hit pause and archived this site. In the meantime, our community has remained active here here. But we've made a return, that's a little different than before. You can ...

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 ...

10 alternative must dos at the Glastonbury Festival Step back in time at The Rocket Lounge When the headline acts finish at Glastonbury, the party is only just beginning. For many people, the late ...

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 ...

As hardcore-fetishism and macho-posturing permeated the mainstream during the infant years of the 1990s, indie-rock loyalists shifted directions. Responding to the shrill noise of populist rock which ...

Other prominent releases include Buffalo Daughter’s debut, Pizzicato Five’s Bossanova 2001, Momus’ The Philosophy of Momus (A Scottish experimental musician who transplanted to Japan in the 90s and ...

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 ...

This November marks the 50th anniversary of one of popular music’s most definitive and enduring landmarks. In a remarkable burst of creativity, The Beatles eponymous 1968 album redefined the ...