A Year In Pop: 23

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

A deluge of new entries this week, some of which should spark a bit of conversation. So I'll let you get on with it!

[Poll #1001778]

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Bob Sinclair: good continuation of theme but could do with more oomph. Borderline tick.

Unklejam: I don't like this and I'm not sure why yet. Possibly because popjustice have told me it's amazing and I can see no evidence of amazingness, and am thusly disappointed. No tick.

Kelly & Eve: great voices, reasonable beats. Borderline tick.

Qotsa: boring boring boring. Dudes, you used to be so GOOD! Where are your riffs? Where is the lonely desert drunkenness I used to love? No tick.

Chemical Bros: heard this for the first time last night. Pleasant electro noises a year too late, and never really gets going into the meaty waves they used to do so well. I can see it growing on me though - tick.

Klaxons: I am weeping for the memory of 1993. No tick.

Cornell/LME: They have taken a great Ibiza handbag tune and sucked out all the good bits! If you are going to bosh something up then get rid of the rub bits and bosh up the good bits, surely? No tick.

Not heard: White Stripes, Holloways, Fray, Ghosts.