To all PRs, Labels, Bands, etc... who POST us CDs and things...

In case you did not get this email and still have incorrect information for us!



URGENT: Please remove "1 Junction Mews" and "1 Chilworth Mews" from your database.


Hello

Apologies for the mass email and that this is fifth time I've contacted some of you but I really-really need you to update your contact database for DrownedinSound, theQuietus, theLipster and Thrash Hits and remove the (above) address you're currently using.

About 7months ago we moved out of our office and have been unable to set-up mail forwarding. Our former landlord is threatening legal action as the attached full sack of post is how much I'm receiving and throwing away every fortnight - most of which is either irrelevant to what we cover or we're getting via other means.

Many of you are still sending mail to theLipster which closed earlier this year. Some of you are sending packages 5+ times to members of DrownedinSound staff who were made redundant a year+ ago. All of this is a huge waste of your funds and terrible for the enviroment (personally I prefer to receive ALL MUSIC DIGITALLY).

If you wish to send promo material to ThrashHits.com contact raz AT thrashhits.com, if you wish to send things to TheQuietus.com contact luke AT thequietus.com

If you wish to send ALBUMS for review on DrownedinSound.com please contact our part-time albums editor andrzej AT drownedinsound.com

If you wish to send SINGLES for DrownedinSound.com's weekly singles column, please contact music AT wendyroby.com (she prefers mp3s)

In your database is antiquated, please ensure all of the following names of former DiS members of full-time staff are removed from your database:

Drowned in Sound
- Mike Diver
- Colin Roberts
- Alex Denney
- Gareth Dobson
- Kev Kharas
- Sam Strang
- Jude Rogers
- Rebecca Nicholson

Many thanks

Sean AT drownedinsound.com
http://twitter.com/seaninsound

...of the decade #1 - The Shins 'Phantom Limb'

Part one of my shuffled series of my favourite things of the Noughties.

Nominee for Best Lyrics

Foals in winter coats
White girls of the north
File past one five and one
They are the fabled lambs of Sunday ham
The EHS norm

And they could float above the grass
In circles if they tried
A latent power I know they hide
To keep some hope alive
That a girl like I could ever try
Could ever try

So we just skirt the hallway sides
A phantom and a fly
Follow the lines and wonder why
There's no connection

A week of rolling eyes
And cheap shots from the trite
And we're off to Nemarca's porch again
Another afternoon of the goat-head tunes
And pilfered booze

We wander through her mama's house
The milk from a window lights
Family portrait circa '95
This is that foreign land with the sprayed-on tans
And it all feels fine
Be it silk or slime

So when they tap our Monday heads
To zombie-walk in our stead
This town seems hardly worth the time
And we'll no longer memorize or rhyme
Too far along in our climb
Stepping over what now towers to the sky
With no connection

So when they tap our Sunday heads
To zombie-walk in our stead
This town seems hardly worth our time
And we'll no longer memorize or rhyme
Too far along in our crime
Stepping over what now towers to the sky
With no connection