In the run-up to the Ivor Novello awards, the BBC News website is profiling some major songwriters of recent years. Xenomania is one of the UK's leading pop production houses, put together by writer ...

Bringing together collaborators including Nick Heyward, Xenomania, Erol Alkan and the Chemical Brothers – who appear on the fizzing and life-affirming new single Glad – the album is a strictly ...

That album – International, out in September – sees the band collaborating with Nick Heyward, Xenomania, Erol Alkan and the Chemical Brothers across its 12 tracks – being an album of bangers after the ...

Following the more pop outings of 2012’s Xenomania-produced Words and Music and 2017’s Home Counties, the band has been exploring the more ambient and dub sounds of their early work for 2021’s I’ve ...

But the alt-pop veterans have lined up an impressive array of friends and supporters to contribute to the album – titled International, co-produced with Tim Powell (formerly of Xenomania) and released ...