NME Awards Tour | Pop review

Academy, NewcastleAlong with the BBC's Sound of the Year poll, the annual NME awards tour is a useful barometer of where pop is headed. Last year's bash gave White Lies and Friendly Fires a springboard while Florence and the Machine ­predicted the dominance of female ­electro-pop. But 2010 marks a stern, post-­recessionary return to white-boy indie guitar bands, as if insisting we've had enough musical haute cuisine now, and must again be force fed gruel.The Drums offer an arch take on...

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