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 ...

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 ...

Take a look at the charts , listen to the radio or pick up a copy of one of the music weeklies and you can't avoid it. The British music market is overflowing with American acts producing brilliant , ...

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 ...

Australian outfit Jagwar Ma have released one of 2013's most enterprising debuts with the excellent Howlin'. Formed in 2011 initially as a studio project, the core duo of Jono Ma (guitars, synths, ...