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Produced by Hugo White, The Maccabees and Laurie Latham, 'Marks To Prove It' is the work of a band in their prime. Drawing from their previous albums and experiences, the new songs are not just ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lounge. Twee Pop. Tropicalia. Easy Listening. Jazz. Funk. Giallo. City Pop. Indie Pop. Baggy-Madchester. Ye-ye. 60’s Soul. Video Game Music. Downtempo. House. Nu ...

Spiritualized returned last month with And Nothing Hurt, their eighth album and first in six years since 2012's Sweet Heart Sweet Light. It's been a long and well documented process that's taken the ...

Amsterdam-based outfit Naive Set are the type of band who thrive on the concept of "winging it". Comprised of a bunch of thirty-something nice guys, they are refreshingly over themselves. QED: near ...

We really do hear him scream - on tracks like ‘Keep On Reaching’ (don’t worry, Oasis fans - the titles are all as comfortingly banal as one might expect) where huge banks of horns collide with Spector ...