Here’s an update on marlbank’s 2026 performance to date, highlighting top reviews, playlists, and archival pieces. The site attracts an international audience, drawn primarily from the United Kingdom and United States, who value deep musicianship. Despite a slight decrease in views, the platform remains a dedicated space for music enthusiasts.
Engagement metrics indicate most visitors access the site through desktop or mobile browsers. Future plans include the re-introduction of live reviews, artist interviews, and a weekly podcast. The site continues to prioritise high-quality musical analysis and reporting as it navigates evolving digital trends and the impact of artificial intelligence.
Walking where the green grass grows
It may be only one man and an imaginary dog putting marlbank together. But no one’s gonna sell you a pup.
You are the close listeners, midnight gig-goers, music students, shufflers in the stifling heat of a secondhand record store on a Saturday afternoon diving for pearls, players who genuinely live for the music and aren’t doing it for a pose and simply the lolz. You want to be lit up inside not calcified by the blandness of a mass culture TV and social media diet that prioritises cheap thrills over deep musicianship and quality art. We all want to walk where the green grass grows.
The most popular review run on marlbank this year
How do you find us?
Mainly through Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo and after that Facebook.
Were do you live?
UK, top, by a long way, then US, Italy, Germany and Australia.
What’s the most clicked upon playlist run?
And the most clicked upon album embed?
What about the most popular archive piece from the vaults?
And the most popular YouTube embed?
Device, browser, views?
Nearly everyone who uses the site uses either their desktop computer or phone to access it. Tablet use is small. Most people use Chrome and iPhone is most popular operating system. We’re small but perfectly formed – it’s an intimate crowd. This year so far the site has had 46, 800 views, 4 per cent down on year to date last year. It is what it is. People just aren’t clicking so much on anything in the AI era. Why even write any more when AI can do it for you? Hmmm, that’s a hard pill to swallow. It’s a prompt, pun intended, to be even more human than we are already as a counterblast. Warts and all is surely better than robotic slop.
What’s to come?
- Live reviews return soon
- Key album reviews
- A few interviews
- A weekly podcast