Originally posted by Mr_Trek:I think critics get extremely happy when they get to listen to some good rock these days.
Depends on the critic. If it's NME, then indie rock will get favoured to death. They gave the new Vaccines album 8/10. It's shit! They are a bad that are degrading massively and had a fluky first album. NME hate U2 and bash proper rock.
On the other hand, Q and Rolling Stone usually give rock good reviews - albeit a tad biased with it comes to their lists.

There are some fantastic ones like: 


