1 CAUSTIC LOVE PAOLO NUTINI – B+
2 EVERYDAY ROBOTS DAMON ALBARN – D+
3 TRIBAL IMELDA MAY – B
4 A PERFECT CONTRADICTION PALOMA FAITH – B
5 EMBRACE EMBRACE – B
6 INDIE CINDY PIXIES – D+
7 LOVE IN THE FUTURE JOHN LEGEND – D-
8 EDUCATION EDUCATION EDUCATION & WAR KAISER CHIEFS – C
9 MEET THE VAMPS VAMPS – C
10 THE TAKE OFF AND LANDING OF EVERYTHING ELBOW – A
Comment: Embrace, a post Britpop band in the 1990s, may be better than I think but the blurb calling em out as a latter day Oasis is very silly, now a latter day Travis maybe. And wait, quick head count, seven of these acts could be, nominally at least , be called rock and roll. Those English are crazy.