Drowned in Sound
Drowned in Sound is a UK-based music webzine founded and edited by Sean Adams.
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Review by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 9 November 2004
FOR MY CRIMES I SHOULD BE PUNISHED, but consider this my frank apology: in a popular music monthly I have done this record a great ...
Review by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 21 January 2005
FASHION BY ITS VERY NATURE does not sparkle indefinitely — what's hot today will someday flicker and fade to nothingness, at least until revivalists bring ...
Death from Above 1979: You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
Review by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 8 February 2005
I DON'T THINK THAT I'm a demanding man. Throughout my years, I've never wanted in excess; I've never stamped my foot at a parent once ...
Review by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 1 April 2005
Really, what does constitute a classic record? Recent board discussions have got me thinking about the factors involved in the transformation from "good" or "great" ...
Review by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 1 May 2006
OVER FIFTY YEARS of rock and roll; half a decadent century of breathless excess and worry-about-it-in-the-morning repercussions; a lifetime's worth of ups and downs, but ...
Grandaddy, from beyond the grave: Jason Lytle talks
Interview by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 28 June 2006
PERHAPS WE should have seen it coming: the official "it's over" announcement was a way off yet, but Grandaddy's penultimate release (excluding singles), Excerpts From ...
Review by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 24 August 2006
INTRIGUING ON PAPER though Tennessee-spawned quintet Paramore are – female-fronted emo-rockers stealing diaries back from their plagiarising older brothers — 'Emergency' is a fairly weak ...
Mercury Rev: Still breathing creative life into essential albums
Interview by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 30 September 2006
TWO-THIRDS of Mercury Rev sit in a room, alone expect for their current interviewer, one of many who'll sit before them this afternoon, a pad ...
Sparklehorse: Dreaming of Fiery, Misty Mountains: Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse
Interview by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 11 October 2006
WALK AROUND the stage of London's Bush Hall, through the dressing room, and there you'll find a small outside area, just big enough for a ...
Lady Sovereign: Public Warning
Review by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 7 February 2007
"I SEE YOUR FIRST PRIORITIES are discussing me in Maccy D's at about half-three." ...
Interview by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 23 February 2007
IDLEWILD ARE one of those bands so far as the core DiS staff goes: we were there, fresh of face and wet behind the ears, when the ...
Review by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 8 March 2007
FORGET your wake adages: this isn't the post-Funeral party, the celebratory exhalation of relief following the enduring of an impossible to pinpoint pain. ...
Enter Shikari: Take to the Skies
Review by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 2 April 2007
IT BEGINS with a shrill "SHIT!" and a choir of screams, but the thrill doesn't last: like riding even the most knuckle-whitening of rollercoasters, Enter ...
The Kissaway Trail: The Kissaway Trail
Review by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 26 April 2007
ALTHOUGH DANISH five-piece the Kissaway Trail have proven themselves to be a massively accomplished live act — recent turns at various venues across London have ...
Bring Me The Horizon Frontman: Charges Dropped
Report by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 4 September 2007
FOLLOWING THIS story back in April, where we reported on the alleged actions of Bring Me The Horizon singer Oli Sykes — he was said ...
Review by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 31 January 2008
STRAIGHT UP, that last single, the one about the pavements: belter. Bullshit, but belter. ...
Review by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 15 February 2008
YOU HAVE TO rewind the best part of a year to find the root of the expansive bubble of anticipation that's bloated about the five ...
Guide by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 24 April 2008
BACK IN FEBRUARY, one DiS messageboarder was moved to say to the masses: "I challenge you to prove to me that math-rock is real". Responses ...
Dirty Pretty Things: Romance At Short Notice (Vertigo)
Review by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 27 June 2008
DIRTY PRETTY THINGS frontman Carl Barât has a brilliant album in him. He's not written or recorded it yet, but the songwriting powerhouse behind the ...
Dizzee Rascal: Truthfully Born To Do It
Interview by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 1 August 2008
DIZZEE RASCAL'S 'Dance Wiv Me', featuring Calvin Harris and Chrome, has sat at the top of the UK singles chart for the past four Sundays. ...
Sunn O))): Monoliths & Dimensions
Review by John Doran, Drowned in Sound, 21 May 2009
DURING SHELLAC'S excellent track 'The End Of Radio', about the nature of recording and broadcasting electronically amplified rock music, there's a line (when performed live ...
Emerson Lake & Palmer, Foreigner, UFO, ZZ Top: High LOL-tage: Mike Diver's classic rock adventure
Live Review by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 3 August 2010
The other day our former overlord Mike Diver phoned up DiS HQ to belligerently demand we implement what he described as "the final phase" of ...
Overview by John Doran, Drowned in Sound, 22 October 2010
THIS LIST HAS been designed to upset you. It's not a best of Norwegian metal. It doesn't offer a comprehensive guide to any Norwegian genre ...
The Deftones: Deftones: "A lot of people have grown up with us..."
Interview by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 30 August 2011
AHEAD OF THEIR sold-out headline show at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire, DiS meets Deftones' Frank Delgado (electronics) and Sergio Vega (bass). Each joined the band at ...
Xeno & Oaklander: Sets and Lights
Review by John Calvert, Drowned in Sound, 13 October 2011
UP TO NOW, the problem with coldwave has been an atmospheric one, in that the music has none. If the various players are to successfully ...
Outkast: An Album of the Year 2000: OutKast: Stankonia
Retrospective by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 26 October 2011
WHAT INITIALLY seems like a throwaway title of nonsensical playfulness is actually a very astute summary of the first truly great rap record of the ...
Enter Shikari: A Flash Flood of Colour
Review by John Calvert, Drowned in Sound, 9 January 2012
JESUS. WHERE DO YOU START with A Flash Flood Of Colour? Well let's try... at the start, all the way back to Korn's Jonathan Davies ...
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