Sound of 2010

The Naughties are almost over, caput, dead! Bring on the Teenies? Lets face it, the Naughties have brought disappointment, a bit like the 90's. The 20's and 30's had Jazz, a radical explosion of unstructured beats that were "so unsofisticated, Darling". The 40's and 50's gave us Rock&Roll, dancefloor filling basslines that influenced nearly every modern artist from then on. The 60's, we all know about the psychedelic hippy movements that inspired nearly every social movement in the western world. How about the 70's and 80's an emporium of tragic dress sense, "I don't care ideology" and more experimental alternative music, including the birth of indie. The 90's, Oasis, The Stone Roses and Coldplay were the biggest things to come out of Britain, that says it all. Pop music passed off as rock. So boring and uncreative. This decade has been a replica excpet that the bands have all gone down the revival route, influenced by Post-Punk and Electronic music.
3rd decade lucky, maybe? Here are a few things to look forward to.

Old Favourites

• Vampire Weekend have a new highly anticipated album "Contra".
•  The Foals are planning on taking the UK by storm again with their next installment, which is yet to be named but has been self-described as "an eagle soaring".
•  MGMT's new album "Celebration" is sure to be a big seller.
•  The Klaxons were meant to release a new album in 2009 but the label rejected it as being "too experimental"! How dare they, this is music, it couldve been what music needed? But The Klaxons are planning on releasing a more mainstream version later in 2010.

Newbies

• Ellie Goulding, an Indie-Cindy princess who sings merry songs that are perfect for most radio stations but its nothing new. Im sure it will be her looks and style that turn her into a sensation shes being bigged up to be. Dont believe the hype, its not all great, buts she is definatly worth a listen to.
• Everything Everything are a melodramatic, new age band. Again, there is nothing really are them that challenges the sound of the last 20 years.

• As recently reviewed, The Drums are an excitng new act of 2010 that are following the best parts of the Naughties and are sure to be a hit in many music festivals across the UK. Good luck to them. [See Recent Review]
•  Two Door Cinema Club are really exciting to hear, the pristine guitar chimes and Pheonix style pitch variation on the vocals give them a unique sound and yet are mainstream enough to actually make an impact in the alternative music world.

Ou Est Le Swimming Pool produce floor filling fantasms. Pop ridden and heavily synthesised music that featured for several weeks on NME TV's "Top 10 Tracks You Have To Listen To" make these lads one of the hottest acts to look forward to in the next few months.

I know, there are ridiculous amounts of artists I've missed out. Thats because speculation causes hype and hype ruins bands or creates unwarrented success. Lets not speculate anymore. Instead lets just pick up an instument and make some music that will move people like it has done in the 20th Century. Good luck Britain.