The Student Playlist

Showcasing the Best New Music, Curating the Classics

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CLASSIC ’80s: The Smiths – ‘The Smiths’

One of the most significant building blocks in what we now know as ‘indie’, The Smiths’ 1984 debut album was the start of a short but dazzling career.

CULT ’70s: Television – ‘Marquee Moon’

Television’s 1977 debut ‘Marquee Moon’ helped change the course of guitar music’s evolution, with its jazzy, nocturnal feel and disregard for blues tunings.

CULT ’90s: Pavement – ‘Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain’

‘Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain’, the second of Pavement’s five albums, was arguably the high water mark for American indie in the 1990s.

CULT ’90s: Aphex Twin – ‘Selected Ambient Works 85-92’

25 years on, Richard D. James’ first album as Aphex Twin stands up as one of the key markers in the evolution of British electronica.

REVIEW: Elbow – ‘Little Fictions’ (Polydor)

Newly-married Guy Garvey sounds truly happy on ‘Little Fictions’, as bold and accomplished an album as Elbow have ever made.

PLAYLIST: January 2017

Twelve musical highlights from January 2017!

CULT ’00s: Klaxons – ‘Myths Of The Near Future’

A colourful adventure playground of album that boasted lethal pop hits, ‘Myths Of The Near Future’ rocketed Klaxons to national fame. But it was all over very quickly…

The Top 200 Tracks of the 2000s

The songs that helped change music and delight fans and connoisseurs alike during the noughties, here’s The Student Playlist’s countdown of the 200 greatest tracks of the 2000s.

CLASSIC ’90s: Daft Punk – ‘Homework’

Daft Punk’s 1997 debut album ‘Homework’ helped to change the direction of house music and broadened its appeal.