"The future is electro, female and DIY"

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/dec/17/electro-pop-female-artists

AKA the Guardian has another pop at predicting the pop revival.

That said I like all the acts mentioned who I've actually heard. Perhaps this is the Real Thing!!!

Comments

[koganbot]

Yes, listening to Ladyhawke's "My Delirium" it's definitely got a rock guitar and rock drums; the instrumentation is very '80s DOR (for you young'uns, this means "dance-oriented rock"), the mixture of rock and pop and synth. I really don't get why Ladyhawke is considered part of this trend, other than that she uses synth riffs. I mean, I don't see how this is different in kind from Kim Carnes' 1981 version of "Bette Davis Eyes" except that "My Delirium" is more gothily draggy (in a way that works because the tune flowers from within the dragginess and makes it something other than draggy).

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

there's always been a dance element to our music ;)