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?

Comments

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I don't have any thoughts about the increased critical coverage (er, because I hadn't noticed one), but as regards the music being made as a reaction to anything, I think it's important to point out that it never really went away - as other have said, Seth Lakeman, Decemberists, The Unthanks, the 'token folky Mercury nom': it's in, you know, a tradition.