Dead Or Alive Electroclash Question Confuses UK Media

Mainstream British journalists continue to disagree dramatically over the future potential of electroclash with the Guardian's top music critics this week reaching diametrically opposing conclusions.

"Electroclash was a creative dead end because of its self-conscious blankness, which stripped snyth-pop of all its preposterous excess and, thus, most of its appeal," decided Dorian Lynskey (clearly deciding it's dead).

Former Mixmag man Alex Petridis, meanwhile, went the other way, in 3 page feature eulogising New York electroclash inventor Larry Tee and his gorgeous proteges WIT (Whatever It Takes) and Avenue D (writers of the brilliant 'Do I Look Like A Slut-').

"New York has moved back into the international spotlight, resuming its rightful position as the place where bands break new ground and genres are born that change the face of music forever," said Petridis.

Jockey Slut writer Steve Yates also outed himself as an electroclash hater in a curious piece suggesting dance culture's lack of personalities is its saving grace.

"Think of the alternative, the next time you bemoan dance music's lack of 'personality', the largely unknown JS star columnist suggested.

"You might get Fischerspooner."
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