Every decade has a defining genre of music that, one day, will make people look back and think “wow that was rubbish”.
In the nineties, it was bouncy rave, until Britpop took over and made everyone supposedly cool. For the unfunnily-named noughties era, it’s fair to say that nothing new emerged and survived. Soppy indie was everywhere and weak commercial drum and bass also came back from the ashes.
However, it wasn’t all bad. Towards the end of the decade, the underground sound of dubstep started to creep out of London and into the commercial world. Burial even got a Mercury prize nod, but shunned it in favour of staying anonymous. Whilst we can’t predict what will get you grooving down the local singles club night during this new decade, we can take a recap over some of our favourite artists who we mentioned in 2009…
Pop is a handy word, as it can be used to make other ones up!
