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  • 19 January 2010

September Favourites: The Five Albums That We've Had On Repeat This Month

By Holly Mosley in Music / Festivals on 30 September 2020

Idles Everything Everything The Doves Fleet Foxes Hurts

From Everything Everything to Idles, it's been a great month for music.

It's been a bit of a mix of dark truths and determined positivity when it comes to some of our favourite albums of September, but that's exactly the sort of thing we expect as we come up to the final quarter of 2020. Indie bands have been on top form though, and whether you want to upbeat tunes or melancholy ballads, these records have got you.

Everything Everything - Re-Animator

Everything Everything - Re-Animator
Best song: Violent Sun

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Theo Hutchcraft Gave Courteeners Song After Drunken Night

By Clive King in Music / Festivals on 03 May 2017

The Courteeners Hurts

Theo Hutchcraft gave 'Modern Love' to The Courteeners after Liam Fray serenaded him from a skip and no longer considers the song his own.

Theo Hutchcraft gave a song he wrote to The Courteeners after Liam Fray serenaded him from a skip.

The Hurts frontman co-wrote 'Modern Love' with his bandmate Adam Anderson but couldn't find the right way to record it themselves, but they played it to their friends, and the rockers quickly fell in love with the song.

After Liam belted out his own version on a drunken night out, Theo knew he should give the song away to them.

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Hurts - Brixton Academy, 13 February 2016 Live Review

By Harry Moore in Music Reviews on 15 February 2016

Has popular music ever been so unpopular? Walk through a London bar and you're more likely to hear someone discussing a new Berlin-based producer who creates music with shoelaces than you are a discussion about 'popular' music. Pop is dirty, pop is your friend Jack who still listens to Mumford & Sons, pop is a WKD on a table of IPAs.

The problem is, there's a lot of bad pop music. Pop music that is secondary to the artist's new fragrance, or to boost a TV career. Nobody takes pop seriously anymore...

...apart from Hurts.

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Hurts Announce Tracklisting For New Album 'Exile' Released On 11th March 2013

Posted on15 January 2013

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Hurts - Sunday 21st August 2011 at V Festival Chelmsford, England

Hurts - Theo Hutchcraft and Adam Anderson of Hurts London, England - Shockwaves NME Awards 2011 held at the O2 Academy Brixton - Arrivals Wednesday 23rd February 2011

Hurts - Better Than Love

May 24th 2010 will see the release of Better Than Love, the debut single from Manchester based duo Hurts.

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