Compared to the drum-machine euphoria of dance music in 1989, Soul II Soul stood apart. Britain was getting sweaty in make-shift raves, with Euro producers snagging Disco samples to voice their four-to-the-floor 120 BPM party-starters. Meanwhile a loose collective of London-based DJs, dancers, singers and the occasional musician slowed it […]
The 2010s was a weird decade for music. Any artist that has come up in the last ten years has done so in a fragmented social media dominated world. But this has fostered a generation of British acts unafraid to be pop in the broadest sense, but also intensely awkward […]
The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/trashtheory03211 Portishead did not want to be pop stars, they didn’t do interviews, rarely wanted to play live, they didn’t play the game. Yet their debut album, Dummy, quickly became one of the […]
Björk never wanted the spotlight. Fame was never the goal, she just wanted to be able to defy the boundaries of pop on her own terms. Debut was where she would burst her way onto MTV and Radio, but with her 1995 album Post she became the innovative and unflinchingly […]
