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Matt Mullen

“Those fridges are probably the fourth best musical group to come out of Sheffield”: Supermarket goes viral for the chilled ambient drones of its freezer section

Frozen.

The city of Sheffield has a rich musical history, having given the world the likes of The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire and Arctic Monkeys, but the latest musical sensation to come out of Britain's Steel City is an ambient drone phenomenon that listeners are describing as "angelic", "heavenly" and "fucking beautiful".

These particular ambient sounds haven't been carefully composed in Ableton Live by a chin-stroking Eno wanna-be, though – they've originated from a far less likely source: the freezer section in Sheffield's Ecclesall Road Co-op supermarket.

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