DIM

Okay, here's the deal - lad rock is terrible, NME is poisonous, 'modern pop' is disappointing, music fans and musos alike are repulsive and 'Reading Festival 09' was, on the whole, A Nail in a proverbial Coffin which contains the Soul Of Music (Radiohead were stunning, though). Also, I might do a whole post on how bad the Black Lips are BUT WAIT COME BACK there is Hope ;

Like, if you haven't heard of the xx then maybe you've 'been on holiday' or something but seriously, listen to their debut album which was the best thing of August. 'Crystallised' is unequivocally their best song, all Joy Division ominous opening notes and breathy vocals. They bang on about being 'r 'n' b' a lot but seriously the girl sounds like Mirah and the dude sounds like a sedated Patrick Wolf so this is basically a Quirky Facade. Also 'live' they are completely motionless and awkward. Brilliant.

Okay also there is this amazing band called Everything Everything who are vaguely 'Math Rock' but really they are crazy good at writing hilariously complex, harmonic pop songs about hilariously complex 'Situations' like 'MY KZ, UR BF' which is about a confession of adultery during an air-raid. "I wanna know what happened to your boyfriend, 'cause he was looking at me like 'woah', right before the kitchen was a dustbowl." Um. Or 'Suffragette Suffragette' which is a wailing elegy for a 'lost love' or something. Seriously, they are incredible. Just look.

'Amazing.' New LOVVERS album out, like, 'before'. Also new HEALTH album soon. Also new Vivian Girls album sooner. Also Robbie Williams is BACK (!!!). Also DIM Zine out soonest. So, Hope.