Articles by Michael White

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  High Llamas

  Buzzle Bee

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2000

  Sean O'Hagan's ongoing debt to Brian Wilson has been greatly exaggerated. At most, the element of the wayward Beach Boy's music making stil...

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  The Weekend

  La Varieté

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2000

  The immediate aftermath of punk was a particular fertile era for British music. Believing that punk had exhausted rock of further possibili...

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  Goldfrapp

  Felt Mountain

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2000

  The rampant vogue for the glory years of orchestral film soundtracks seems only to be growing, producing an alternate pop universe in which...

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  Montgolfier Brothers

  Seventeen Stars

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2000

  Such is the exclusivity of British misery that it seemingly possesses its own sound - of eroding architecture, of ceaseless rain, of modest...

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  Pizzicato Five

  The Fifth Release From Matador

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2000

  Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields once quipped (for he does little else) that the best thing about Pizzicato Five might be their sleev...

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  Various

  Caroline Now!: The Songs of Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2000

  The near-unprecedented number of heated responses to Exclaim! Associate Editor Michael Barclay's recent published slight of Pet Sounds, the...

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  Broadcast

  The Noise Made By People

  PUBLISHED Aug 2, 2000

  The often-perceived mutual exclusivity of pop and the avant-garde is something of a lie. Pop has virtually always appropriated the componen...

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  Paul Weller

  Heliocentric

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2000

  Despite the predominating edict that his comparatively soft Style Council work and brilliant '91 solo debut were the results of a failure o...