I think British people like their pop to have a...

“I think British people like their pop to have a particular overt Britishness to it but their rock to have a very one dimensional American-ness to it, which I guess in their minds lends an aspect of the exotic to it. There’s nothing really that exotic about a band from Cardiff. If you think back to a lot of the big British bands, especially the pop bands - I’m particularly thinking of bands like Blur and Pulp here - they had an overt British-ness to them and really hammered that home as much as possible, almost as if that was part of their brand identity, through to The Libertines going on about notions such as Albion… it was difficult to escape the fact they’re British. Whereas our rock bands are judged almost to be in the second division, as though they’re pale imitations of American bands. I can say without fear of contradiction that I thought Jarcrew were a better live band than Les Savy Fav, not some third division pale imitation of them at all. I think that British rock music has an inferiority complex, maybe born of actual inferiority years ago as they were trying to catch up on particular trends…”

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Andy Falkous of Future Of The Left (via Drowned In Sound)

If Falko wasn’t in FoTL he could easily have a career as the only rock critic worth reading.

<3 Falco <3