Frank's 21 Favourite Albums from the 21st Century

Earlier this week I made a two-day stop in my hometown between the end of my holidays in Portugal and my return to London. One late night, drinking beer in the 33-degree heat with some of my oldest friends, we started talking music and how hard it was to find albums you enjoyed from beginning to end. We each threw some names around – some which we agreed on and some the rest had never heard of. And that was that. When I got back to London, I stumbled across this article from American GQ listing their 21 essential albums from the 21st century. I sent the link around to my friends and it seemed only natural to challenge each other to put together our own lists of favourites, which we did on Facebook. I then thought it would be a good idea to share them here with the hope that some of you will also share some of your favourites that I might have missed or to simply rejoice in our matches.
I was able to find most of them on iTunes apart from Zazie's 'Rodéo Tour', which you can listen to here, and Tom Odell's original EP, which isn't available anywhere anymore, so I shared his full album.

Burberry Brit Rhythm: 'White Lies' at Village Underground

Following the launch of Burberry Brit Rhythm, which I wrote about last month, the British power house presented the first of their 'Three Gigs, Three Cities, Three Nights' series celebrating the fragrance with three live gigs around the world.
The first took place on Wednesday at Village Underground in London, where White Lies performed a brilliant set of 9 songs in the coolest concert venue in Shoreditch. I had really been looking forward to it not only because I had heard great things of White Lies' live performances but because I very much needed a mid-week break.
Amongst the very cool-yet-chilled crowd mostly outfitted in black leather as if we all had got a memo were George Barnett, who as face of the fragrance was wearing a Burberry biker jacket (the one from my dreams!) and Suki Waterhouse, also featured in the campaign. Models, musicians, editors and socialites all mingled and enjoyed the great performance – backed up by an awesome lighting design and followed by an incredible DJ set by Gary Powell, who had us shaking it for way past our bedtime on a school night.
The gig culminated with a Brit Rhythm-shaped confetti rain, which turned the crowd into excited kids and spread the new scent (I was wearing it anyway) across the room.
A big thank you to Burberry for letting me be a part of such a fun and unique experience! Click here to see more of my videos from the night on the Fashion, Frankly Vimeo page.

Fashion, Frankly & Courtesy of Burberry