London's perfect Grammar | Music | The Observer: The big music story of 2013 hasn't been the emergence of a bright new artist or genre. When people look back on this year they'll think of Robin Thicke's creepy uncle routine, Miley Cyrus giving oral pleasure to builders' hardware or Kanye West's Nietzschean rants about his fiancée's bottom. This was the year when the clear blue water between music and celebrity culture evaporated and the music industry was overrun with twerking maniacs. But among that bedlam, there has been one traditional, homegrown success story – a debut album by a young British band that has, in the UK at least, outsold Kanye's Yeezus, Miley's Bangerz and Robin Thicke'sBlurred Lines. London Grammar are three friends from uni in their early 20s. Their debut record, If You Wait, says more about what it's like to be a young person today than any of those released by big US stars. Their self-effacing attitude and insecurity about the future has touched a nerve with a generation in a permanent state of uncertainty....
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