Drowned in Sound is counting down our favourite albums of 2025. Every year is a great year to be a music obsessive. 2025 was a year that felt like music was both a catalyst for change and the much ...

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ECFOP feature the poetic skills of Compere, poet, MC, promoter, loud-mouth. Sometime Stylish Riot MC, Viz the Spoon, claim The Ramones and The Clash as inspirations and are described "as gutsy, angry, ...

If you really want to read this, try using The Internet Archive. So far Paul has released one album, 2006's "The Misdiagnosis of Paul Hawkins", on AFUK records and has also featured on compilations by ...

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As hardcore-fetishism and macho-posturing permeated the mainstream during the infant years of the 1990s, indie-rock loyalists shifted directions. Responding to the shrill noise of populist rock which ...

Lounge. Twee Pop. Tropicalia. Easy Listening. Jazz. Funk. Giallo. City Pop. Indie Pop. Baggy-Madchester. Ye-ye. 60’s Soul. Video Game Music. Downtempo. House. Nu ...

“It sounds a bit fanciful” explains the English folk singer Shirley Collins, sipping water from a glass goblet at her home in Lewes, “but it’s not, it’s actually what I feel and I just want to do the ...

A nation frozen, stuck in the bitter season of ice. Desolate, withered and toiling under a deceitful administration, which teeters precariously towards chaos. One that belittles the constitution, ...

“I’d lost sight of why we were still doing it.” The last time I spoke to Scott Hutchison, in the summer of 2014, was to talk about a low-key solo record he’d made under the name Owl John. By way of ...

Fat White Family emerged nearly three years ago from the South London squat scene, and over that time have developed into one of the most exciting live bands on the circuit today. Debut album ...