What tune are you listening to at the minute

Love this song 

I don't listen to anything made after the mid-00s generally but don't all bands sound exactly like Ed Sheeran now?

You know, with the endless caterwauling and cloying sentimentality - think the song in the FBD Insurance ad.

When I was doing the LC and going into college, there were bands like Snow Patrol, The Killers, The Strokes and The Libertines that were popular. And say what you want about them, particularly Snow Patrol, but they all sound like different bands with individual influences and styles of singing.

Everything now sounds like it comes off a conveyor belt; blatant Ed Sheeran ripoffs that sound like they were produced to be in VHI and Dairygold ads.

Snow Patrol, Keane, Coldplay, Athlete, Elbow, Embrace, Starsailor all sound the same. All that post-Britpop stuff was bland nonsense. The Strokes are one of the few bands whose music has survived and aged in anyway. That wasn't a great decade for music at all. I went through an NME list of the fifty based indie bands of the noughties (their word, not mine) and most of it has aged terribly! I used to love a few of these bands too, but it nearly ended guitar pop!

Themselves and The Cribs were always the two most interesting of the 'landfill indie' scene, for want of a better time. Musically and lyrically they offered a lot more than any of their peers and this album, like The Cribs last effort, feels like that but grown up. Maybe I was just at the right age then and now!