Amid all of the awful news that 2024 has already brought in terms of music media - the corporate disembowelling of Pitchfork and the horribly premature death of Neil Kulkarni - there is a flicker of hope in the form of the "slow return" (in founder Sean Adams' words) of Drowned In Sound.
The plan is for the newsletter, podcast and online forum to continue, and also the resurrected record label, but also for new essays to be commissioned weekly and ultimately for a print magazine to be produced.
Ambitious? In the current climate, probably yes. But in desperate times like these we need people like Sean - people with both vision and an unwavering belief in the value of independent music journalism - and we need multi-headed operations like Drowned In Sound.
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