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 ...

The Boxer Rebellion Another band who've been away for far too long are The Boxer Rebellion. Having been relatively quiet since 2011's The Cold Still, the band announced recently that they'd completed ...

Some bands might let epic tour fatigue and a nightmare drive over the Pennines put them off their live game, but not Dananananaykroyd. Despite being held up for a couple of hours on the drive across ...

There’s a good chance that by the time you read this piece, however this turns out (give me a chance, I’m just a sentence in), issue twenty of Comes With A Smile magazine (pictured, and CwaS ...

The ultimate roadtrip mix is one of the hardest mixes to perfect. Whilst many reach for the youthful rapid clatter of skate punk/metal or the hairmungus power ballads of Jon Bon Jovi, the more ...

Originally this song was called 'The End Of Time' and was supposed to be at the end of the record. But I found myself wanting to skip ahead to it, so I rewrote the lyrics and put it first. I was ...

To celebrate the release of their new album, Kaleide, Katie from Sky Larkin kindly agreed to talk us through a track by track. As an extra special treat, the band have also provided us with an ...

Last time I met James Mercer was on the eve of the release of Wincing The Night Away. Today’s meeting is a little different. I’m in Sony Records’ London offices, the British home to Columbia Records ...

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 ...

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 ...

This latest instalment of the Austin Powers series comes across as somewhere between 'The Naked Gun', 'Blazing Saddles' and Benny Hill. There is much cacophonous laughstrionics to be had if you're the ...

Dustin O'Halloran and Adam Wiltzie formed A Winged Victory For The Sullen and announced the release of their debut, self-titled record earlier this year. It promises a great deal and delivers even ...