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 ...

Drowned in Sound's 21 Favourite Albums of the Year: 2020 The records that were stuck on repeat on our ghost-ship. » news ...

Further Reading: Bedhead – Transaction de Novo When people call slowcore sleepy or boring, they are referring to the aptly named Bedhead, a band who sound like they just woke up and can’t be bothered ...

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 ...

Today’s the day that Scotland decides whether to become an independent country or stay part of the UK. It’s been a momentous campaign that’s seen impassioned arguments from both the Yes and No ...

Home counties based quintet Chapterhouse were one of the leading lights of the first wave of shoegaze. Initially formed in Reading back in 1987, they went on to release a clutch of critically ...

Gotye talks us through some of the equipment and instruments he used to record the album Making Mirrors.... "I used to love the exhaustive gear lists that artists like Tomita and Vangelis would put on ...

Over the last fifteen years, the relationship between artist and audience has changed immeasurably. Direct engagement with fans, particularly for artists without major label backing, can help forge a ...

A year into the return of winter in America, the words of Scott-Heron have proven to be hauntingly relevant ...

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 ...

The Teenagers are getting away with it. Teenagers all over the developed world are getting away with it, running around with their disposable incomes and their stupid oversized shoes and their even ...

The first thing that struck me when I moved to Brooklyn in 2002 was how many anglophiles there were everywhere. I’d been to New York a few times prior to actually making the city my home, and on those ...