Drowned in Sound is counting down our favourite albums of 2025. Every year is a great year to be a music obsessive. 2025 was a year that felt like music was both a catalyst for change and the much ...

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To express a dislike of U2 seems to have become almost as regular a pastime as shopping for groceries or queuing at the bus stop.» ...

jack penate is starting clean with his appropriately titled sophomore effort, 'everything is new'. after a successful debut, this followup takes the music in a different direction. 'everything is new' ...

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 varied – some kept tongues in cheek, some were flippant, ...

closehaving made their mark with mercury nominated debut 'voices of animals and men' and follow up 'superabundance', young knives were already in possession of critical and commercial success and a ...

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 ...

to celebrate the 21st anniversary of their debut release, blur's fourth album 'the great escape' has now been remastered from the original tapes by frank arkwright (the smiths, arcade fire, new order, ...

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 ...

Crafting 13 (named, simply, after the studio Blur recorded in) was a challenge made even harder by the now-tempestuous relations within the group. At this point, it was becoming obvious that Blur’s ...