On Pop

Is it the music that makes bands great — or the “situations”?

Every reference you pick up on opens a new horizon

What sounds like two guitars overlaid in the studio is all coming from him

Until now, she’s never been as much fun as she was in the noughties

A pop song can be transformed by use, or it can split the world open

Father John Misty has faked his way into a kind of blazing honesty

The only band I’ve seen and wish I’d been paying attention to

This is music for people who are tired of being careful

Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song

For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success