Placebo
By user • Nov 1st, 2006 • Category: Band Bios
At its best moments, Placebo is a hauntingly theatrical act that remains one of the mid-’90s juggernauts from the last truly great era of Brit-pop. At its worst, it’s a hanger-on to that wave that has always sounded too dark, too elfish or just too English to find a consistent audience. Truth be told, the London-based trio is both — depending on which side of the Atlantic they’re on. Back home, Brian Molko’s waveringly androgynous vocals and raw guitar echoes headline open-air festivals. Here, he and his mates have plateaued at prestigious mid-level venues performing for crowds just old enough and just hip enough to remember how experimentally pop-savvy the genre used to be…recalling an era before Coldplay and Starsailor were considered Brit-pop. Yet a dozen years and five releases into a career really isn’t time to start giving a damn about perceptions
Chicago Innerview Magazine, November 2006
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