As always, there’s been a huge amount of music released this year, and we’ve scoured through it all to pick out the top 30 best albums of 2025.
Tag: Sam Fender
For our second lot of 2025’s awards, we skew a lot more positively and take a look at the best, most interesting and most standout music of the year.
We sung; we danced; we people-watched; and we definitely felt the rain on our skin—BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend arrives in Liverpool for 2025, packed to the gills with A-list talent and unforgettable moments.
On a full album that brings out the efforts previously only afforded to his smash singles, Sam Fender makes his most expansive, contemplative but deeply rewarding album yet.
Our coverage of Leeds Festival 2023 continues as Foals and Sam Fender top the bill, joined by Wet Leg, You Me At Six, Knocked Loose, Frank Turner, The Last Dinner Party and more.
Reading & Leeds is back once again with another huge lineup of indie, pop, rock, hip-hop and dance to round out festival season, and we’ve got your extensive guide of everything you can expect to see.
Take a look at what we’ve been listening to throughout March in The Soundboard Stereo, ft. Miley Cyrus, Funeral For A Friend, Troye Sivan, Skunk Anansie, Sam Fender and Volbeat.
In this Review Round-Up, big albums from Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Sam Fender and a great solo debut from Ian Miles stand against new releases from We Are Scientists, Twelve Foot Ninja, Defences, Bound In Fear and Sleep Outside.
Originally, it felt as though Sam Fender’s existence within the crop of emerging UK singer-songwriters…