Everyone loves a good list, right? Well, Dear Reader, not compared to Dork’s Listmaster General Martyn Young you don’t. Each month, we’ll give him a new musical category to rank, then you can send in your rage-filled missives about just how wrong he is. It’s all good fun.

This month:

(i.e. a British band with a debut album released between 12th Feb 2011 and 12th Feb 2021) PLEASE NOTE: All opinions are those of Martyn Young and in no way represent Dork as a whole. We’re very sorry.

Try to imagine the last decade of music without The 1975. Pretty boring isn’t it? Less amazing songs, less ridiculous haircuts, less saxophone, less handsome bearded bassists, less weird electronic rave-ups, less guitarists with surprisingly beautiful hands, less bad fashion mistakes, less ill-advised hair dye jobs, less beautiful lyrics, less wildly ambitious and fantastical album release plans, less engaging activity to try and create a more positive and inclusive planet, less environmental awareness, less selling petrol, less nappies, less stupid insensitive statements on social media, less lyrics about Guy Debord (even he needed spectacles you see), less dancing and less nonsense. Yes, The 1975 have done it all over the past ten years, from the sleek and smooth pop of the debut to the neon explosion of ‘i like it when you sleep…’, the existential modern-day magnum opus of ‘A Brief Inquiry...’ and the scattergun brilliance of ‘Notes On A Conditional Form’. Matty, George, Ross and Adam have been right at the heart of everything amazing about British music with a beating ambitious heart that makes them a cut above the rest, taking their rightful place at the top of the list as the best band of the decade.