- Urban Hymns (Deluxe / Remastered 2016) · 1997
- Urban Hymns (Deluxe / Remastered 2016) · 1997
- A Storm In Heaven · 1993
- Urban Hymns (Deluxe / Remastered 2016) · 1997
- Urban Hymns (Deluxe / Remastered 2016) · 1997
- Urban Hymns (Deluxe / Remastered 2016) · 1997
- Urban Hymns (Deluxe / Remastered 2016) · 1997
- Forth · 2008
- Urban Hymns (Deluxe / Remastered 2016) · 1997
- Urban Hymns (Deluxe / Remastered 2016) · 1997
- Forth · 2008
- This Is Music: The Singles 92-98 · 1995
- Urban Hymns (Deluxe / Remastered 2016) · 1997
Essential Albums
- Made while Richard Ashcroft was processing the breakdown of a long-term relationship and the band were tumbling towards their first split, The Verve’s second album thrives on dark emotions. “This Is Music” charges its funk groove and inflamed guitars with defiance and rage, and acoustic ballad “On Your Own” is embittered by solitude and betrayal. The latter is a glimpse of the singer-songwriter classicism Ashcroft would eventually settle into, but “History” is the great leap forward here; its captivating sorrow driven by strings and a re-purposed William Blake poem.
Albums
Music Videos
Artist Playlists
- Take a psychedelic trip with the space rockers who became arena-filling heroes.
- These Brits' sumptuously hypnotic music spans rock history.
Singles & EPs
More To Hear
- Time heals all—including a decades-long legal battle.
About The Verve
The Verve was among the best of the Britpop bands of the ‘90s. The group proved this early on, building its swirling mix of psychedelia and shoegaze out of frontman Richard Ashcroft’s shamanic charisma and guitarist Nick McCabe’s cosmic six-string squall. The massive sound and success of 1997’s Urban Hymns and “Bitter Sweet Symphony” solidified it. Coming together in 1990, in Wigan, England, The Verve first dove into long jam sessions that alchemized into 1993’s spacey odyssey A Storm in Heaven. The band’s sweeping alt-rock, boosted by Ashcroft’s poignant songwriting, began to take shape on 1995’s A Northern Soul. After a brief breakup, The Verve returned with a vengeance on Urban Hymns, making its grand universal anthems a vital blueprint for the next wave of British rock—only to split again. A surprise reunion, which included 2008’s triumphant Forth, contained all of The Verve’s key ingredients: big guitars, bold statements, and a climactic ending.
- ORIGIN
- Wigan, Greater Manchester, England
- FORMED
- 1989
- GENRE
- Rock