The Temper Trap: The Temper Trap – review

The Temper Trap weigh in on the London riots via the kind of windy cliches that would make Coldplay winceDuring last summer's riots, voices were heard suggesting the ongoing events might perversely be good for music. Violence, disenfranchisement, nihilism and generational disconnection: here were topics rock and pop has proved adept at exploring – even illuminating – in the past, the very conditions that gave us protest rock, punk and Public Enemy. Commentators openly dared to propose that ...

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