“Britpop”, AG Cook | The duty

The British composer AG Cook announced last summer that the label that he founded, PC Music, would stop publishing new albums. The influence he has had on the trajectory of pop music over the past ten years has fortunately continued to be heard, even in this eloquently titled triple album Britpop. Let’s spend the first chapter revisiting the hyperpop sound of the origins of label to interest us in albums from the “present” and “future”. The present of Cook, collaborator of Charli Cook, the mad scientist of electronic pop, waters his seed as a songwriter; the result, melodious and melancholy, is rather successful. Finally, the musician’s future seems to lie in deconstructed club music, while he ends the album with parsimonious rhythms that clash with those, epileptic, of his beginnings.

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