The Duke Spirit, for all their press attention and live prowess, have never really released a single that fully grabbed the listener. 'Til now ...

Mogwai - Government Commissions (BBC Sessions 1996-2003) Review by Mike Diver This is ageless music, and utterly, one hundred per cent essential. Lost marbles can always be found; Mogwai’s trick is to ...

Cymbals Eat Guitars' name comes from a Lou Reed quote. This we shall get out of the way early on. Verbatim, he described the Velvet Underground sound as “cymbals eat out guitars”, an all together less ...

Fuck sake lads, you’re from Merthyr Tydfil, not the Mid West. You are not Lostprophets, either; we’ve one of those already. So your point is ...

Neenor are melodic. They're also from Brighton (although to be fair they have moved from Yorkshire). But what path of melodica/post-acoustica do the band actually take? They are part of a local scene ...

A DIY spirit, an unwillingness to compromise: aspects of The Rascals which have sold them to Deltasonic (that and a series of shows supporting some super-popular Sheffield band or other). But not to ...

Although I could see this coming, with ‘Four Days…’ The Killerest Expression have truly surpassed themselves, their potency for crafting infallibly catchy music being taken to new and exciting levels ...

1996 – 1999 With hindsight, the early records made under the name Songs: Ohia were Jason Molina’s attempts to find a voice, literally and figuratively. The debut, Songs: Ohia (1996), introduced a ...

Forty years ago this week, Neil Young entered a makeshift studio on Santa Monica Boulevard in a state of deep depression and alcoholism and, in that single session, recorded the majority of the ...

A year short of their thirtieth birthday, The Cult have become something of an institution in rock and roll circles. Prior to forming in 1983, frontman Ian Astbury had already started to make his mark ...

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 ...

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 ...