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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rock musicians talk about second albums being like painful births, but rarely is it said of album number six. If you’ve survived that long, you’ve hit your stride: you know precisely how many slices ...

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 ...

Last month, Drowned In Sound were invited to the premiere of 'Beautiful Noise', the first ever documentary to tell the story of the musical phenomenon that came to be known as shoegaze. Lasting ninety ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There was a moment, somewhere in the region of early to mid 2004, when Damien Rice was, for me at least, Ireland’s most exciting musician. This might seem a bold claim, one to be derided, scoffed at, ...

Britpop has been a dirty word since the turn of the century and rightly so. After all, for every Pulp or Blur came a Cast or Heavy Stereo and a generation of lumpen lad rock was born. However, not ...

Here’s some fun facts you may or may not know about Dan Wilson. As frontman of Semisonic, he wrote their biggest hit, the instantly recognisable 'Secret Smile'. He collaborated Adele on three of her ...