The Lathums' chart-topping debut album is the latest success that is seeing 2021 on course to be the best year for new British groups in well over a decade.
The Wigan indie band land straight in at the top of this week's Official Albums Chart with their first full-length collection How Beautiful Life Can Be, topping off a successful year for the quartet.
They are the latest in a new wave of guitar bands drawn from all over the UK breaking though and enjoying a high arguably not seen since the rise of the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs and Keane, among others, in the mid-2000s.
Analysis by the UK record labels association the BPI shows that 11 of the first 39 weeks of 2021 - well over a quarter of the total (28%) - have seen a
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