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 ...

We chat to Justin Lockey and Hazel Wilde about the musical project that's been 10 years in the making ...

Sifting through the embers of a year, extinguished across all but a few scattered patches of colour of warmth, we find ourselves longing for either the fire or the ash. To remember the vibrancy of our ...

Editors release their sixth album Violence a week on Friday (9 March). Recorded over the course of a year and produced by Leo Abrahams in collaboration with Blanck Mass, it represents one of their ...

The album is a great summary of where Palace are as a band. It's a culmination of very early songs and new ones. The album takes you on a journey through different emotions and ups and downs. It's ...

“I’d lost sight of why we were still doing it.” The last time I spoke to Scott Hutchison, in the summer of 2014, was to talk about a low-key solo record he’d made under the name Owl John. By way of ...

“The record came from a place of insecurity and confusion. I mean, if I can’t produce a record for the band I was in for seventeen years, who am I? What do I do?” Shortly after work began on Death Cab ...

Between 1979 and 1981, The Specials were arguably the biggest band in the land. Dominating both the singles and albums charts along with countless sold out shows and television appearances, their name ...

Tangier Sessions tells the oft-told tale: while traveling abroad, nobleman meets guitar. Guitar is too expensive for nobleman and, outraged, he departs. Nobleman quietly returns several days later for ...

“She is very neurotic. She is very concerned about what everyone else is doing.” Kele Okereke looks fairly concerned himself right now, as if he's quietly divulging a secret that has left him tortured ...

The Neptune is back! 12 Great British Albums! New Judges! Streams! And more! The Neptune album prize started as a reaction but has become an annual 'thing'. At first it was a response to the annual ...