Dancehall - 100% Music

Rotterdam/Kent trio, DANCEHALL, has always existed in the margins: too spiky for pop, too self-aware for grunge. On ‘100% MUSIC’, their second album, singer/ bassist, Tim Smithen, guitarist, Craig Sharp, and drummer, Dave Keeler, sharpen their edges to deliver the band’s most dialed-in, deliberate work yet.

Written as singer/bassist, Tim Smithen, became a father and embraced sobriety, the record confronts his own childhood, addiction and neurodivergence.

‘100% MUSIC’, a joke-turned-album-title, became a manifestation with the band approaching each song as a single, standalone monument to their time together. They dedicated evenings and weekends to tracking and overdubbing, throwing everything they could at the recording process, resulting in an album that reflects the joy the self-declared ‘brothers’ find in DANCEHALL.

With 100% Music, Dancehall wanted to do more than just capture a moment but to make a record of themselves reacting to life with humour, urgency and zero pretension.