A superb article with some really 'on the nose' writing:
'Luckily the current UK music scene has just the thing. Someone has even compounded a helpful term to use when you call the record companies in a line-up emergency; this uninspiring, guitar-gelled Polyfilla – of which The Fratellis are a fine example – is now known by some as "landfill indie"...You know who they are, these smooth-chinned strummers, with their smart-arsed, self-admiring band names almost invariably prefaced by the definite article: The Kooks, The Courteeners, The Holloways, The Rascals, The View, The Wombats, The Automatic, The Pigeon Detectives, The Hoosiers. Their turgid, tuneless banalities use all the oxygen between ad breaks on XFM..."Scouting for Girls are like the sound of Satan's scrotum emptying. They're abysmal." '
I really couldn't have put it better myself. What they failed to mention though is that these twits are on Soccer AM every Saturday.
I'll second that. Though you forgot the anonymous cloth shoes.
This genre of music has become more and more dreadful in the last couple of years. Even pop music has more variety these days than the 'Indie' scene.