Blog: The Daily Growl

Bloggers across the Atlantic are getting all in a tizzy about SXSW. Over here us British bloggers couldn't give a collective monkeys. We operate on a different scale. However, I'm aware that there's a lot of stuff happening with one million bands and even more record industry peeps crowding into ...

The title's a bit unfair. Jack's debut album contained a couple of killer pop songs. Shame the rest of it was bland filler. But now things have changed. Goodbye to the tunes that sat uncomfortably between big-hearted indie pop and sub-Libertines guff. Hello to shuffling breakbeats, pulsing bassline, simple chorus ...

• Jack Penate - Tonight's Today