Celebrations for the site, which started as an email fanzine in 1998 and was relaunched by founder Sean Adams as Drowned In Sound in 2000, kick off on August 2 with a feature running over 10 weeks, in which 50 people, including DJs Steve Lamacq and Erol Alkan, music industry executives, artists and DIS journalists past and present write about their favourite album of the decade.

The intention, according to Adams, is to get away from the typical albums that ...