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#IndependentMusicMonday’s Tracks of the Year: 2016 Edition

Every Monday throughout 2016 we have compiled the week’s best new releases. We’ve featured over 1000 tracks, which you can find compiled in our Archive Spotify playlist.

It’s been a real joy rummaging through the new releases from Independent labels throughout this year, and I hope that this best of the year playlist featuring 70 of my favourites gives you a taste of some of what a great year it has been. LISTEN to the IMM tracks of the year playlist on Spotify here.

Track of the Year: ‘Three Sides of Nazareth’ by Nicolas Jaar

A pummelling beat and children chattering and tiger-growlin’ greets you at the start of this almost ten-minute masterpiece. Jaar has seemingly thrown his downbeat hyper-dub trunk off a cliff and whilst diving behind it into the infinite abyss he’s managed to make one of biggest floor-fillers of the year. If anyone was going to soundtrack a Party in the Sky, with lightning flickering at your feet, then you could bet Jaar would do it. Of course, it remains a production masterclass with the slinky, snarling, super-smart, shape-shifting, almost philosophical exercise. It’s a voyage that revels in making your synapses shake as much as your hips, but boy oh boy, if this isn’t one of the songs of the year then you better hurry up and tell me what is better than this utter bliss. “I found my broken bones by the side of the road…”

Tracklisting

Nicolas Jaar - Three Sides of Nazareth

Jean-Michel Blais - Nostos (feat. BUFFLO)
Snow Ghosts - Undertow
School Of Seven Bells - On My Heart
El Perro Del Mar - Breadandbutter
Junior Boys - Over It
Primal Scream - Where The Light Gets In (feat. Sky Ferreira)
Eagulls - Lemontrees
FEWS - The Zoo
Future Of The Left - Animals Beginning With a B
Sløtface - Sponge State
The Kills - Doing It To Death
Kate Jackson - Metropolis
The Duke Spirit - Wounded Wing
Innerspace Orchestra - One Way Glass
Guy Andrews - Paganism
Pet Shop Boys - The Pop Kids - Radio Edit
The Dandy Warhols - STYGGO
Marissa Nadler - Janie in Love
Jesca Hoop - The Lost Sky
Minor Victories - A Hundred Ropes
Nils Frahm - Chant
Julianna Barwick - Same
Fear of Men - Island
ANOHNI - Drone Bomb Me
Animal Collective - FloriDada
Radiohead - Daydreaming
Ulver - Moody Stix
Fiona Brice - Dallas
Hammock - Dissonance
Garbage - Even Though Our Love Is Doomed
Sleigh Bells - Lightning Turns Sawdust Gold
The Avalanches - Frankie Sinatra (Extended Mix)
Soulwax- Heaven Scent (feat. Chloe Sevigny)
Shearwater - Radio Silence
Amber Arcades - Fading Lines
The Raveonettes - This World Is Empty (Without You)
Angel Olsen - Intern
Melanie De Biasio - Blackened Cities
Hilary Woods - Sabbath
Julia Jacklin - Pool Party
Wild Beasts - Big Cat
Femme - Light Me Up
BadBadNotGood - Confessions Pt II (feat. Colin Stetson)
Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam - A 1000 Times
Lost Under Heaven - I&I
Tim Hecker - Castrati Stack
Agnes Obel - Familiar
Jenny Hval - Conceptual Romance
C Duncan - Like You Do
Warpaint - New Song
Black Honey - All My Pride
Eluvium - Fugue State
Dead Light - Blooms
Sharon Van Etten - Not Myself
The Anchoress - Long Year (Acoustic Version)
Hannah Lou Clark - It’s Your Love
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Jesus Alone
Merchandise - Lonesome Sound
Flock of Dimes - Everything Is Happening Today
Daughter - The End
The Blow - Think About Me
Austra - Utopia
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross & Gustavo Santaolalla - Before the Flood
Worriedaboutsatan - This Restless Wing (feat. Vincent Cavanagh)
Lucy Claire- Kawaita Tsuki / The Barren Moon (feat. Yuri Kono) (worriedaboutsatan Remix)
On Dead Waves - Blue Inside
The Moonlandingz - Black Hanz (Radio Mix)
Gruff Rhys - I Love EU
New Order - Singularity - Erol Alkan’s Extended Rework

LISTEN to the IMM tracks of the year playlist on Spotify here.

Posted by playlist curator Sean Adams of Drowned in Sound

independentmusicmonday:

Johnny Jewel (Chromatics), Radiohead, Daughter, Dead Light, Dillinger Escape Plan, Enter Shikari, Paul Draper (Mansun), and lots more on this week’s #IndependentMusicMonday

Every Monday the editor of Drowned in Sound compiles a playlist celebrating the best new releases from Independent labels. The concept is a little like those New Music Friday playlists that you might be aware of, but on a Monday, and with no major labels.

Each week, we compile 20-50 new releases from independent labels and independent artists. Some tracks arrived online in the past few days, whilst others are cuts from albums that were released on Friday. You can submit tracks by emailing immplaylist@gmail.com.

Track of the Week

‘Remorse’ by Johnny Jewel

Founder of the Italians Do It Better label, and the producer/force of nature behind the roster (Chromatics, Glass Candy, Symmetry, and Desire), Johnny Jewel has kept us waiting for Dear Tommy (the follow up to the incredible Kill For Love) but he’s become pretty reliable at delivering a glorious movie soundtrack every few months since his blockbuster success doing the bulk of the music for Drive. ‘Remorse’ is a stunning piece that opens the score to HOME, a new Belgian movie, directed by Fien Troch.

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This Week’s New Additions

Johnny Jewel - Remorse
The Orb - Sex (Panoramic Sex Heal)
Daughter - The End
Dead Light - Pale Fire
The Notwist - Close To The Glass
Radiohead - Down Is the New Up
Jagwar Ma - Give Me a Reason
Paul Draper - Friends Make The Worst Enemies
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Symptom of Terminal Illness
Male Bonding - Visible Girls
Newmoon - Head Of Stone
Enter Shikari - Hoodwinker
Black Marble - A Million Billion Stars
Franz Ferdinand - Demagogue (30 Days, 30 Songs)
Jamie Lidell - How Did I Live Before Your Love
Swet Shop Boys - Zayn Malik
Kuedo - Under The Surface
Douglas Dare - Greenhouse
C Duncan - Like You Do
R.Seiliog - Cloddio Unterdach
Solar Bears - After Yesteryear
Nils Bech - Too Little Too Late
Pangaea - More Is More to Burn
Au/Ra - Concrete Jungle
Lisa Mitchell - Warriors
Powell - Jonny [feat. Jonny]
MONO - Requiem for Hell
The Lemon Twigs - How Lucky Am I?
The Temper Trap - Lost - HONNE Remix
Fink - Wheels
Holly Macve - No One Has the Answers
Bloom - Shout
Anna Of The North - Us (Acoustic)
Of Empires - Baby Darlin’ Sugar
Cloud Nothings - Modern Act
Nolita View - Runaways
George Cosby - Glamour
Nervous - Lagu Angsa
Hippo Campus - Boyish
Pyke - For a While
American Wrestlers - Hello, Dear
Moby and The Void Pacific Choir - I Wait For You
The Well - Skybound
Oozing Wound - Everything Sucks, And My Life Is A Lie
Sleaford Mods - TCR
Zeds Dead;Charlotte OC - Symphony
Crystal Fighters - Good Girls
The Naked And Famous - Last Forever

ICYMI - Listen to: 50 Finest Tracks of the First Half of 2016

Miss something? Browse the archive playlist on Spotify.

Posted by Sean Adams (@seaninsound).

independentmusicmonday:

Marissa Nadler, Warpaint, Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam, Honeyblood, Roisin Murphy, and lots more on this week’s #IndependentMusicMonday

Every Monday the editor of Drowned in Sound compiles a playlist celebrating the best new releases from Independent labels. The concept is a little like those New Music Friday playlists that you might be aware of, but on a Monday, and with no major labels.

Each week, we compile 15-30 new releases from independent labels and independent artists. Some tracks arrived online in the past few days, whilst others are cuts from albums that were released on Friday.

Track of the Week

‘Give Me Your Gun’ by Marissa Nadler

Marissa Nadler has always had a way of haunting everything she touches. Her voice is rich with its own ghostly wisp whilst her melodies swirl and swirl until time stands still like a frozen waterfall. She’s one of the most consistently brilliant musicians in the world and we’re lucky to have her. Those of a fragile disposition should investigate her new EP of home-recordings Bury Your Name (out now on Bella Union) and her entire back catalogue at your peril, as it’s quite likely you’ll get utterly obsessed and begin to forget that other music exists.

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This Week’s New Additions

Marissa Nadler - Give Me Your Gun
Petrels - Terra Nullius
Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam - A 1000 Times
Temples - Certainty
Honeyblood - Sea Hearts
Merchandise - Lonesome Sound
Beach Slang - Spin the Dial
NxWorries - Lyk Dis
Warpaint - Heads Up
MADEIRA - Come on Thru
Flock of Dimes - Everything Is Happening Today
Negative Gemini - Real Virtual Unison (Fake Edit)
Róisín Murphy - Whatever
Lucius - Pulling Teeth
Archive - Driving In Nails - Guy Andrews Remix
Kamera - Ventoux - Throwing Snow Remix
Junk Son - Picture - Ghost Culture remix
Tender - Violence
Alice Jemima - Dodged a Bullet - Bodhi Remix
JONES - Indulge - HONNE Remix
How To Dress Well - What’s Up
Archy Marshall - Swell
Meadowlark - Headlights
Happyness - Friend of the Revolution
Terry - 8 Girls
LVL UP - She Sustains Us
Skinny Girl Diet - Lazy Eye
Scarlet Rascal - Strange
Every Time I Die - C++ (Love Will Get You Killed)
Boxed In - Shadowboxing
True Widow - Theurgist
Stick To Your Guns - Universal Language
God Damn - Again Again
Flyying Colours - Long Holiday
Pixelord - Operator
Michael Nau - Maralou
Holy Sons - Robbed and Gifted
Ilya Beshevli - Tears of a Tiger - Taken From Night Forest
Tad - Stumblin’ Man - Remastered
Attila - Ignite

ICYMI - Listen to: 50 Finest Tracks of the First Half of 2016

Miss something? Browse the archive playlist on Spotify.

Posted by Sean Adams (@seaninsound).

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#9: From ANOHNI to Bat for Lashes - Best of Q2 2016

April, May and June 2016’s finest album releases are considered and evaluated by Drowned in Sound founder Sean Adams and Absolute Radio’s Danielle Perry. The show kicks off with Amber Arcades and ends with Fiona Brice, and there’s plenty more including Minor Victories, Ala.ni. ANOHNI, Bat for Lashes, Fiona Brice, Black Honey, Minor Victories, Marissa Nadler and we chat about more stuff too.

Please note: this show was recorded the day after Brexit. Sorry for the delay on this podcast going live, we had issues with our Spotify uploader but it’s now up there as a playlist with full tracks too, and on all the podcatcher websites with audio clips amongst the chatter.

Tracks played on this episode

‘Fading Lines’ by Amber Arcades
‘All My Pride’ by Black Honey
'4 Degrees’ by ANOHNI
'Cherry Blossom’ by ALA.NI
'Give It Your Worst’ by False Advertising
'A Hundred Ropes’ by Minor Victories
'Janie in Love’ by Marissa Nadler
'In God’s House’ by Bat for Lashes
'Echo of Creation’ by JAMBINAI
'Berlin’ by Fiona Brice

PODCAST

The podcast version only includes clips of the tracks but is available to download for free. You can browse our previous podcasts here. You can also get this podcast via RSS, Stitcher and most likely via your 'podcatcher’ of choice.

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Furnaces by Ed Harcourt (Dir. Matt Mahurin)

Ed Harcourt says: “Meet Furnaceman and his claw of despair. He loves Trump, oil & money. Probably adores guns and hates your God too. Whattaguy.”

Furnaces is the new single taken from his brand new album Furnaces out Aug 19th through Polydor. The record was produced by Flood and Ralph Steadman has done the cover art.

Pre-order the album at edharcourt.com. Follow: @edharcourtuk

independentmusicmonday:

Minor Victories, FEMME, Cate Le Bon, and lots more on this week’s Independent Music Monday

Every Monday the editor of Drowned in Sound compiles a playlist celebrating the best new releases from Independent labels. The concept is a little like those New Music Friday playlists that you might be aware of, but on a Monday, and with no major labels.

Track of the Week

Few things are quite as ferociously pink as South London’s finest DIY-popstar FEMME. In fact, her record cover’s backdrop is so luminous that you feel as if you’ve just glanced at the sun. It’s this sense of dazzling you that she also does with her hooks, and there are none finer, shinier and more unforgottable than the chorus of ‘Fever Boy’, which is a certified BANGER. The track became an instant-sensation when it hit the web a few summers ago, generating several million streams across the globe and setting her on a path which has led to her eh-O! & wuh-oh! filled debut album, Debutante, which is out now.

New Tracks from Forthcoming Albums

This week, super-group of sorts Minor Victories, featuring members of Mogwai, Slowdive and Editors, have revealed a new slice of symphonic-rock (y'know, big sky-scratching riffs and everything about the track cranked somewhere between tease and epic!). The past seven days also saw a new track from Baby Strange who NME named their new band of the week, with the Glasgweigan-trio releasing a riff-riddled single from their debut album which is coming on September 9th. There was also the return this week of The Invisible, another taste of the forthcoming Fear of Men album and an indie-pop dittie from Oscar.

New Album Releases

Friday April 15th was the eve of Record Store Day, which was perhaps a quiter Friday than normal for album releases, but you can sample tracks from new releases on this week’s playlist.

Recommended Album of the Week: FEMME Debutante (Tape Music)

Suuns Hold/Still (Secretly Canadian)
John Carpenter Lost Themes ii (Sacred Bones)
Cate Le Bon Crab Day (Turnstile)

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independentmusicmonday:

It’s your weekly dose of the best new independent music, curated by Drowned in Sound’s editor Sean Adams. Today is a bank holiday in the UK so a full post and updated playlists on all services are coming tomorrow but for now here’s the updated Spotify playlist with 19 new tracks.

independentmusicmonday:

Eagulls, Primal Scream, Lucy Claire, Emmy The Great and lots more on this week’s Independent Music Monday

Every Monday the editor of Drowned in Sound compiles a playlist celebrating the best new releases from Independent labels. The concept is a little like those New Music Friday playlists you might be aware of, but on a Monday, and with no major labels.

Track of the Week

This week’s track pick comes from a new EP of collaborations by the neo-classical leaning Lucy Claire, which is available from her bandcamp. It’s a remix by those ghost-soundtracking, Adam Curtis favourites, worriedaboutsatan. The duo have created a pulsing and pulsating rework that will soothe even the calmest of minds.

New Tracks from Forthcoming Albums

Following the immense comeback track featuring Sky Ferriera, Primal Scream continue to tease their forthcoming Chaosmosis, which is released on Friday through the Ignition label. The new Primals tune ‘I Can Change’ sounds dreamy, as if they’ve slithered out of a museum of psychedlia and into a screening of Life On Mars, then turned on the recording equipment.

This week, Eagulls also revealed a new slab of throbbing guitars in the form of ‘Skipping’ from their forthcoming album Ullages, which is out on Partisan in May.

Also on this week’s playlist there are tastes of upcoming albums from emo-electronicists Into It. Over It (fans of Death Cab/Postal Service, you’ll be wanting to check their new record on Brace Yourself out!) and a new tune from new band from former Wu Lyfe-r LUH (Mute) who featured on the playlist a few weeks ago and has a debut album on the way. There’s also a track from Dee Dee from the Dum Dum Girls’ new solo project Kristin Kontrol (Sub Pop) plus Mt Si (Cascine), Lonely The Brave (Hassle), Roman Flugel’s remix of Shit Robot’s (DFA) new track featuring yer man from Hot Chip plus a song from the debut EP by indie-popsters Dream Wife, who look set to have a cracking debut album in them, in due course.

New Album Releases

Friday March 11th saw the release of the following notable new albums, which you can sample a track from on this week’s playlist:

Emmy The Great Second Love (Bella Union)
Lucius Good Grief (Play It Again Sam)
The KVB Of Desire (Invada)
Blancmange Commuter 23 (Blanc Check)

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The Kills, M83, Yeasayer, Ry X, Fear of Men, and lots more on this week’s Independent Music Monday

Are you new to our playlist? Welcome along if so.

What we do is make a playlist every Monday of the best new releases on Independent labels. It’s a bit like those New Music Friday playlists, but on a Monday, and with no major labels (except a few fall in the grey area of being distributed in some countries by major labels, but it all gets a bit complicated….).

The playlist consists of 50 songs hand-picked by the editor of Drowned in Sound, about 20 or so new additions each week. These are both tracks/singles added to streaming services in the past week or from albums which were just released. Expect everything from melacholic pianos to Scandi-pop bangers via gritty hip-hop and deathly metal riffs.

New Tracks from Forthcoming Albums

The Kills don’t appear to have lost that vampiric bite since they went away. ‘Doing It To Death’ slipped online last week alongside confirmation of the duo’s new album Ash & Ice (pictured above) on June 3rd through Domino Records. Watch the video and pre-order your copy here.

This week, Fear of Men’s haunting ‘Island’ arrived from Jessica Weiss’s forthcoming album Fall Forever. Apt for this playlist, she described the track as an “anthem to independence”. The new album is out on the 3rd June, through the Kanine label. and you can order a special limited edition golden vinyl edition from her website.

Also this week we had the slighty bonkers first taste of the new album from M83, another teaser from the forthcoming Yeasayer album plus tracks from Joey Bada$$, El Perro Del Mar, Innerspace Orchestra, RY X, Explosions in the Sky, Hammock, Haelos, YILA, The Dandy Warhols, The Boxer Rebellion, Guy Andrews, Cate Le Bon, Aurora, Lonely The Brave, Junk Son, and Bodhi plus a Disclosure remix of Flume’s 'Never Be Like You’.

New Album Releases

Friday March 4th saw the release of the following notable new albums, which you can sample a track from on this week’s playlist:

Wussy Forever Sounds (Damnably)
Anna Meredith Varmints (Moshi Moshi)
Låpsley Long Way Home (XL)
M. Ward More Rain (Bella Union)
Polica United Crushers (Memphis Industries/Mom+Pop)
Yndi Halda Under Summer (Burnt Toast/Big Scary Monsters)
Fatima Al Qadiri Brute (Hyperdub)
Wintersleep The Great Detachment (Dine Alone)
Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm Trance Frends (Erased Tapes)
The Coral Distance Inbetween (Ignition)

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P.S. A massive thank you to @TwitterMusicUK for their support of our initiative this week.

This week’s selection.

“We were talking about things in terms of collage, and Dadaism and Cubism and brushstrokes and colours”, Animal Collective’s Brian Weitz explains. “We noticed the theme. We knew the word ‘paint’ was something which was going to be very central to the record”

They’ve often had quite visual inspiration for their records. Back when they were making Strawberry Jam, Lennox was inspired to make a record which sounded like the texture of those hyper-processed sachets of jam you get on flights. I point out this parallel of visual inspiration, but Lennox and Weitz insist that it’s not too literal.

“It’s not so much like ‘let’s take this piece of visual art, and try to make a representation of it’”, Weitz explains. “With the Cubism influence, it’s like the idea of having a skewed perspective on a traditional form. Even though these songs aren’t the craziest things you’ve ever heard – a lot of the music is pop music – but we like to skew it”

“Something like Dadaism or collage maybe is a little more literal because we’ve always had field recordings and found sounds in our music”, Weitz continues. “But with this one it’s been literally like taking scissors and sticking something in there, like gene splicing”.

Noah Lennox is quick to warn me that these influences don’t always leave marks on the finished products. “On Merriweather, we talked about ballet a lot at the beginning, and you can’t hear that so much on the other end”, he admits. Quite so.

Read the full interview with Animal Collective about their new album Painting With, here.

seaninsound:

This video by The Anchoress (who managed by me via CCCLX Artist Management) is currently in the top 20 of the AppleMusic chart, above the likes of Bieber and Coldplay. Her debut album is getting rave reviews and is coming out on Jan 15th 2016. Learn more about her here.

seaninsound:

‘Popular’ by The Anchoress.

Alongside running Drowned in Sound, three years ago I started an artist management company. Having run the Drowned in Sound label (born out of desire to turn my enthusiasm into more than pixels), and dabbling in helping out acts in the past, it seemed like the next logical step. In the past few years, I’ve learnt a lot more about the machinations of the music industry than probably at any other time I’ve been involved in The Biz.

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It’s called Sex Panther by Odeon. It’s illegal in nine countries… Yep, it’s made with bits of real panther, so you know it’s good.

A photo posted by Ed Harcourt (@edharcourt) on Oct 9, 2015 at 1:31pm PDT

Ed Harcourt

I’ve been working with songwriter of (ill) repute, Mr Ed Harcourt. I set-up CCCLX to manage him and release the recorded-in-an-evening-at-Abbey-Road album Back Into The Woods (Listen: Spotify, Apple Music), which did rather well. So well in fact that Burberry invited him to perform at their fashion week shows in London and Shanghai, then comissioned him to write a song especially for their festival campaign.

Ed has nearly finished his 7th album with the Flood (who’s an absolute genius, and has produced most of my favourite albums, including records by NiN, PJ Harvey, Depeche Mode and more!) and he’s just signed to Polydor - currently home to some of the biggest and best acts in the world, including Lana Del Rey, Kendrick Lamar, James Blake, Years & Years, Carly Rae Jepsen, The 1975 and lots more. The album is nearly done and will be out sometime in 2016. Ed is currently writing and producing Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s new album, playing piano for Marianne Faithfull across Europe, has recently joined The Libertines for their Glastonbury & Reading headline performances, and is co-curating a special Lee Hazlewood evening at the Barbican in London on Oct 25th (details).

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The Anchoress

I recently took on my second management client: The Anchoress. NPR’s Ann Powers described her as “Wales’s (much more explicitly feminist) answer to Lana Del Rey.” The Guardian recently spoke to her about being a polymath as she’s got a PhD, a book about epic poetry out on Bloomsbury, performs with Simple Minds and lots more.

The Anchoress just signed to Kscope, and her debut album Confessions Of A Romance Novelist will be released on Jan 8th 2016. A first taste of the album hit the web a few days ago, and it has already been covered by The Quietus, TheLineofBestFit, GodIsInTheTV, LouderThanWar, and lots more. In fact, ‘Popular’ is so - errrr - popular that it’s currently in the top 5 of the Hype Machine. If you like the idea of a modern twist on Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk, then you’ll love it. We’ll soon be announcing the first single from the album.

Follow her adventures on Twitter @The_Anchoress, facebook.com/theanchoress, Instagram, and Tumblr.

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Episode 3

15 Years of Music Blogging with Rockfeedback’s Toby L

To celebrate 15 years of Drowned in Sound and 15 years of Rockfeedback, Toby L who founded the music website, concert promoter and TV show Rockfeedback, chats to our hosts Absolute radio’s Danielle Perry and Drowned in Sound founder Sean Adams (@seaninsound).

The conversation covers a range of topics from the struggles of turning a hobby into a job, promoting gigs, and running labels as Toby also founded the Transgressive label, which is home to releases by Foals, The Antlers, Regina Spektor, Alvvays, Songhoy Blues and many more.

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DiS Podcast Returns: Hear Our Pilot Show feat. Metric →

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After a break of almost 7 years, the DiS podcast is back.

I roped in some old friends (Metric were signed to the DiS label for a brief period of time) to join me as special guests for this pilot show. We chat about their new album Pagans in Vegas and its follow-up which they’ve been recording on the road, plus Danielle Perry from Absolute Radio, and DiS’ Marc Burrows help me to predict who might win at tomorrow night’s AIM Independent Music awards… And we chatted a bit about how bonkers it is that Bowie is doing the score for the Spongebob musical.

Feedback is welcomed: Is this the worst podcast you’ve ever heard?