Released: 2020 The argument about what pop fundamentally is and isn't will rage on for as long as it exists. If you want to play it straight down the line then WAP is popular - currently around the 1.5 billion streams mark give or take, but if as a purist it's all about audience then quite clearly, it all depends on what you perceive pop's audience to be.

Released: 1992 About the time Rodney King was being dragged out of his car there wasn’t much peace, love or understanding on the West Coast, no pacifist Daisy Age or Native Tongues talking ab…

Before they set to work on their sixth album, Midlake as a collective had a band meeting. Amongst the topics for discussion it seemed were fundamental principles; singer Eric Pulido revealing afterwards "I wrote (the album’s first single) The Ghouls after a conversation within our camp about everyone’s respective goals." The desired approach to him anyway seemed to be clear, a job where "The temptation to demonize the realities or challenges that exist and yet to face them head on and create something extraordinary."

Released: 1979 Whilst you could spend hours debating what was punk and what was not, The Police were definitely not punk. Formed out of what could be classed as either hippie detritus and/or the mo…

Released: 2020 We're now officially in that era where pandemic records that definitely weren't pandemic records are now pandemic records, because our minds are mush and our sense of time has been completely eroded to point where jeez - anything could've been from anytime. Phoebe Bridgers second album Punisher wears those temporal associations, along specifically with Fiona Apple's Fetch The Bolt Cutters…

Everyday Life is, as Chris Martin has put it recently, an attempt to show that Coldplay don’t feel they’re different to any other citizen stuck on this rock; the title’s inference…