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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We're burnt by the industrial kraut stuff swimming around on Portishead's new one (DiS review). We'd lost interest and got sucked back in. Heavy 808 stuff, beautiful; an instant hit in our bus. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...