
British rock music in this decade has been inexcusably bad. I honestly cannot think of a single rock band from Great Britain that I'm dying for an impending record from (Prinzhorn Dance School probably only need the one LP. Long Blondes, Electrelane, R.I.P. Scotland gets a perpetual exemption, a riddle MS anthropologists are hard at work unravelling). Their pop music scene has been been considerably brighter, especially if you don't attempt some fuzzy ethnicity accounting with M.I.A. That Sophie Ellis-Bextor > anything Libertines-related is a duh of the highest magnitude (Grand Royal Duh? Duh-glepexity?). So it comes as no [...]