Musicwrite thought for the day

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Is the current folk revival thing we've got going on (Laura Marling and Mumford and Sons being the touchstones I'm thinking of here) a reaction to the Auto-tuned artificalness of late noughties music in the same way that the seeing out of authenticity from souls in the late eighties was a reaction to the artificiality of the early eighties?

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[petronia.livejournal.com]

Those bands grew out of the post-Strokes/Libertines indie scene - some of the kids picked up guitars and went folk instead of turning into the Arctic Monkeys. As for why they're popular... .