10 Massively Underrated Albums From The 2000s

Before the mid-00s indie rock revolution came the British wave of alt rock masterpieces, and Hundred Reasons’ Ideas Above Our Station is one of the very peaks. Channeling emo and post-hardcore music into life affirming alternative rock, Ideas Above Our Station is a British rock masterpiece and a largely left behind gem. It sounds like a product of its time without becoming dated, it’s the sort of music people don’t make anymore and are worse off for it.

Songs like I’ll Find You and Dissolve are massive singalong rock bangers while What Thought Did and Gone Too Far throw catchiness onto post-hardcore heaviness. The record is a perfect combination of big chorus and ballads, full of catchy instrumental lines and featuring the excellent vocals of singer Colin Doran. Hundred Reasons were one of the first bands to remotely break through from early 00s post-hardcore and paved the way for artists like Frank Turner with Million Dead to to the same.

The record is a genre classic and despite catapulting the band to a UK top 10 and onto stages with Sugababes and Sophie Ellis Bextor has remained largely a classic only inside of the genres fanbase. This record may have been missed by many, but Hundred Reasons were one of the most important bands of their scene and both emo and rock are forever better because of Ideas Above Our Station.