[atlantaprog] Re: From the London Times

the Mystery Jets, Mew

Anybody heard either of these acts?

I hadn't heard of either of these before, I don't think, and that's what's so funny. We talk about, say, Spock's Beard, which the London *Times* would never think to cover, and they talk about the Mystery Jets, who are off our radar screens completely. Something tells me these bands actually sound a lot more "alternative" than they're letting on; it's just that this is the music of indie-rockers who actually *like* Yes (and of course Bowie, as the article relates, but then it's *always* been safe to like Bowie).

(NOTE:  Salem Hill's *Be* was apparently named Rock Album of the *Year* by...

*National Review*. :-/ I notice that publications with a relatively (but not rabidly) conservative bent (like the London *Times*) seem more likely to be open to newer classic-style prog or neo-prog. (OTOH, the *Independent* and the *Guardian*, also in the U.K., have been more open to progressive-rock recently, too--a real turn-about in the case of the *Guardian* (sometimes known as "the Grauniad" in the U.K. for its apparent abundance of typos).

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