Contributor Joe Goggins
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Mush - 3D Routine
As debuts go, this is an impressive mission statement.
February 13, 2020 7:56am
Features / Interviews
Finding Sanctuary: Gengahr
Gengahr’s Felix Bushe reflects on the rocky road towards their third record, ‘Sanctuary’, and how it’s been the best thing they’ve done yet.
January 30, 2020 6:05pm
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Nelson Can - So Long Desire
Nelson Can have demonstrated a hitherto unseen ambition with ‘So Long Desire’.
January 30, 2020 7:50am
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…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - X: The Godless Void And Other Stories
January 16, 2020 7:55am
Features
DIY’s Albums of the Year 2019
Team DIY pick out their favourite records from the year.
December 20, 2019 10:00am
Features / Interviews
Class of 2020: Walt Disco
Theatrical and aesthetically-minded, Walt Disco aren’t just thinking about making brilliantly weird pop music - they’re concentrating on the whole expressive package.
December 12, 2019 6:31pm
Features / Interviews
The Better and Better Land: Fontaines DC
Since the release of ‘Dogrel’, Fontaines DC have been on an unstoppable upwards trajectory. As they prepare to close out 2019 with a sold-out tour, we check in with the breakthrough band of the year.
November 20, 2019 4:26pm
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Drones Club - Big World
It is not punchy, inventive or original. Instead, it’s deeply anaemic.
November 7, 2019 7:50am
Features / Interviews
Positive Destruction: Pumarosa
Upon the release of their debut album, Pumarosa’s world was turned upside down and not in the way they expected. With follow-up ‘Devastation’, they’re taking that part of their history and owning it.
October 28, 2019 1:35pm
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Anna Meredith - FIBS
Joyous stuff.
October 24, 2019 7:58am
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Liz Lawrence - Pity Party
There’s promise on ‘Pity Party’, but Liz Lawrence remains a work in progress.
October 24, 2019 7:50am
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404 - Guild Two: Forever
Silvertongue is the beating heart of ‘Guild Two…’.
October 18, 2019 7:56am
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Tourist - Wild
The unabashed sound of William Philips throwing his latest batch of ideas at the proverbial wall and seeing what sticks.
October 17, 2019 7:56am
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DIIV - Deceiver
‘Deceiver’ is Cole’s first truly clear-eyed artistic statement - it’s also his most mature.
October 3, 2019 7:56am
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Halfnoise - Natural Disguise
A likeable diversion.
October 3, 2019 7:53am
News
Zuzu brings a sense of fun to her Jäger Curtain Call show at Liverpool’s Phase One
The signs are positive across the board ahead of a what’s looking like a breakthrough 2020.
September 23, 2019 7:30pm
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LIFE - A Picture Of Good Health
They’re hitting their stride just as the Brexit void looms. Accordingly, this record is indispensable.
September 20, 2019 8:00am
Reviews / Album
Vivian Girls - Memory
September 20, 2019 7:58am
Features / Interviews
“I write about what I feel” - Cassie Kinoshi talks SEED Ensemble’s debut ‘Driftglass’
Led by the prolific composer and alto-saxophonist, the collective’s debut saw them fuse together vibrant jazz and grooves with influences from across their own rich backgrounds.
September 18, 2019 11:00am
Features / Interviews
Health and Happiness: LIFE
For years, Hull’s LIFE have sat on the peripheries, but recently their socially-charged punk has started to resonate further out. We meet the band in their hometown in the year that it all went right.
September 16, 2019 12:24pm