Salingers v challengers

More likely to be caught in bed with a Goethe than a groupie, today's bands are bigger bookworms than at any time since Cabaret Voltaire and Killing An Arab. "Boy meets girl" just doesn't cut the mustard and the album charts resemble the first-year reading list for a cultural studies BA at a progressive former polytechnic. So whether it's Vampire Weekend and their wry campus vignettes, nu-hippy voyagers mainlining Huxley and Crowley or public school folkies with a taste for poesy, literary inspi...

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