Soooo much music that made our hearts go BOOM! Here our the best 75 songs of 2023...
MUSIC FOCUS: The best releases of 2023.ACTIVITY FOCUS: Come up with you... Read More...
Our top ten songs about rain are all GORGEOUS. But what do they mean? What does the rain symbolise?
MUSIC FOCUS: Taylor Swift, Pale Waves, Paramore, Tove Lo... Read More...
Read Sound of Pen's essay about Maggie Lindemann's 'SUCKERPUNCH' and fuel your own investigations into the literature of love.
MUSIC FOCUS: Maggie Lindemann.ACTIVITY FOCUS: Read our essay. The ideas about Maggie Lindemann's music are so relevant ... Read More...
Lots of our texts examine the importance of self-belief. Let's listen to the music of Bush and work out what we'd say if asked to explore that very theme.
M... Read More...
Bright Star is locked in her manager’s office, Cynthia is locked in a friend’s basement and Ayley is locked in her bedroom. Sound of Pen's 'fTrE' novel explore... Read More...
In most stories, there's a letter being posted... or a phone ringing... or an email being sent. Characters are communicating and - whatever the era - they're using the latest technology to facilitate that interaction. Not that it's only novelists an... Read More...
Taylor Swift’s 2020 albums – ‘folklore’ and ‘evermore’ – are like water. In the surface of them, we see ourselves, as vague and actual as we really are. Undern... Read More...
From number 50 to number 1, here are the songs we loved most this year.
50. While She Sleeps, Nervous
49. Doll Skin, Control Freak
48. Creeper, Midnig... Read More...
We've heard so much amaaaaazing music in 2021 already! Here are the songs we've enjoyed most. Each mini-review includes a word that you can try to use in your own analytical writing!
Okay, let's run through our top 50 songs of 2021 so far! You ca... Read More...