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

Joey Bada$$ - B4.DA.$$
Make no mistake, Bada$$’s star is in the ascendancy.
January 17, 2015 3:00pm

The DIY List 2014: The War on Drugs’ staggering breakthrough year
Adam Granduciel’s always been surprised by success, none more so than in 2014.
December 19, 2014 12:44pm

The DIY List 2014: Darkside, never confronting the end
Dave Harrington looks back on the triumph of 2013’s ‘Psychic’ in conversation with David Zammitt.
December 17, 2014 11:10am

Beyond the stool: drummers in the spotlight
With Foo Fighters’ eighth album out this week, David Zammitt profiles the drummers who have come from behind the kit to take the limelight.
November 16, 2014 12:15pm

Philip Selway: “I still feel the need to prove stuff”
With a second solo album due this month, and his other band about to head back into the studio, Radiohead’s Philip Selway is as focused as ever.
October 5, 2014 10:00am
Darkside: ‘We Grew Up As Improvisors’
March 27, 2014 5:34pm
The War On Drugs: ‘People Loved The Last Album And I’m Not Sure Why’
March 20, 2014 2:34pm
Best Coast: ‘This Is My Life’
October 23, 2013 10:37am