Blog: Dots & Dashes

When Zachary Cole Smith exchanged an 'e' for an 'I' and capitalised his spangly, newfangled moniker the internet imploded a little . It was a consummate exemplar of how the world (for anyone whose world revolves around this here thing known as independent music) had changed: long since deceased were the days of skiving off school to go snaffle an alt.pop hit or slink off to some instore or other. No, when Doused dropped we bathed at length in its urgency; its discombobulating, jittering immediacy; its unabashed majesty and did so exclusively online. We waxed lyrical like literate [...]