Contributor David Zammitt

I will survive: Mount Kimbie

Piecing together a third album from opposite sides of the Atlantic and re-connecting with King Krule and James Blake, Mount Kimbie are at the top of their game.

September 6, 2017 3:12pm

Flipping Real Estate

Taking their band back to the bare bones, and rebuilding with brand new members, Martin Courtney talks fifth record ‘In Mind’.

March 16, 2017 3:00pm

Nao - For All We Know

Impossibly coherent; the product of earned wisdom welded to raw talent.

July 26, 2016 1:12pm

DJ Shadow - The Mountain Will Fall

Josh Davis aka DJ Shadow delivers one incendiary cracker - a great collaboration with Run the Jewels - in a sea of beige.

June 24, 2016 7:21am

Ty Segall - Emotional Mugger

An album bursting with ideas, it too often disappears up its own - let’s say - ego.

January 22, 2016 10:00am

New Order - Music Complete

Clumsy, throwaway and out of touch. ‘Music Complete’ serves to dilute New Order’s output.

September 25, 2015 10:00am

Braids: “We didn’t see anybody else, or interact much with our normal lives”

Post-‘Deep in the Iris” release, David Zammitt finds a band in song, realising their potential and discovering their voice. Here they explain how isolation played a part.

June 1, 2015 4:44pm

Twin Shadow, on overcoming depression and why he left 4AD to embrace his pop side

George Lewis Jr.’s major label move hasn’t been short of difficulties - he speaks to David Zammitt about why he “really, really wanted to switch” homes.

May 1, 2015 2:59pm

Passion Pit - Kindred

This is out-and-out pop music – there are no ‘indie’ qualifiers here - and it’s all the more joyous for its lack of shame.

April 18, 2015 2:00pm

of Montreal - Aureate Gloom

It’s thirteenth time lucky with this Technicolor epic.

February 27, 2015 10:00am

Of Montreal: “I was living in this bubble”

“Reckless” excess and a torrid, lengthy break up defined Kevin Barnes’ last couple of years, but he’s emerged with of Montreal’s best record in years.

February 24, 2015 2:42pm

Gaz Coombes: “I feel like I’m flying by the seat of my pants”

A long way on from Supergrass, Gaz Coombes is racing ahead with his own work thanks to ‘Matador’. David Zammitt finds a man in the heat of a bullfight.

February 1, 2015 2:23pm