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| Drownedinsound |
 For a music hack, few years are as important as 1997. Not because of the quality of music that it gave birth to: outside of street level club heaters like ‘The Distance’ and ‘Semi Charmed Life’, it was a pretty dismal 12 months. No, 1997 is important here because that was the year that Britpop finally ground to a halt, and that kinda shit never fails to entertain.Of course, the foundations had begun to crumble the previous year (insert your own John Harris 101 New Labour / Spice Girls / Gareth Southgate half-assed theorising as to why here), but it was in 1997 that a whole heap of new bands, of various quality, stepped up to the plate and let Northern Uproar know that they were coming for that number one spot....full text |
| Allmusic |
| Every now and then the title of an album is a perfect embodiment of the music found within. Los Campesinos! are dead right calling their album Hold on Now, Youngster..., because from the first track on, the album is a thrilling madcap whirlwind of sound, words, and voices that by the end leaves you feeling like you've been engulfed in an indie pop-driven hurricane. The members of the Welsh seven-piece are hyper-literate, hilarious, and know their way around a hook as they pile through the 11 songs on the album like they are on a breakaway heading for the goal....full text |
| Pitchforkmedia |
| Every musician is also an audience, and if the ever-growing pile of new music my exhausted mailman brings me every day is any indication, more and more audience members are becoming musicians, too. Since long before "indie" was a buzzword, the loosely defined scene has celebrated participatory self-expression-- whether in the first independently released punk records ("It was easy, it was cheap, go and do it," sang the Desperate Bicycles in 1977, on one of the first ever), the hand-assembled 7" singles of 1980s indie pop, the four-track cassettes of 1990s lo-fi, or even the revival-meeting catharsis of the Arcade Fire and "Form a Band" exhortations of Art Brut. Nobody writes them like they used to, so it may as well be you....full text |
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