When a writer begins with the line “much has been made of the recent death of guitar music and how this year should see its glorious return“, is there really any point reading any further?
I may be missing out on some really wonderful music, but I get the feeling I probably won’t. I get the impression that any writer who uses such dreadful tired clichés as the one above thinks “three-chord indie-pop” and “guitar music” are synonyms, and genres like blues, metal or punk which centre around the sounds made by electric guitars either don’t exist or aren’t relevant. I can also safely assume the band he’s writing about are most likely to be some form of dull landfill indie and will not be worth three minutes of my time.
He probably thinks Ry Cooder’s “Dark Was the Night” just sounds like three minutes of someone almost dropping his guitar.
“I fell downstairs with my guitar and accidentally wrote a Pete Doherty song”.