Celebrated for its frank and evocative lyricism, The Streets’ sophomore album, ‘A Grand Don’t Come For Free’, captured a British life of misadventure and mundanity. On its 20th anniversary, we asked 9 artists, creatives and collaborators to reflect on the record’s impact and why it still resonates today.
The late musician and audio engineer was synonymous with pummelling noise, metallic screeches and guttural roars. But in his quieter, often overlooked musical output, he applied the same dynamics to record tender moments of stillness, embracing grace and restraint with equal potency as he did noise and fury.
Intentionally or not, Bar Italia have cultivated an air of inscrutability with their approach to being a rock band that, depending on your POV, is standoffish, wry or just the right side of pretentious. As they bid the underground goodbye, the time is apt to find out who they really are