ARTS CRIES AND WHISPERS

4 POP MUSIC is always reinventing itself, and breaking down into new sub-divisions - jungle-techno, techno-grunge, jungle-grunge, grungle-junge, etc. Even so, I was surprised to discover, from the Letters page of the May issue of Mojo, a category called "Independent-on-Sunday- teenage-wet-dream-groups". The writer of the letter is Pippa Legg from Hampshire. The only example she gives is Portishead. My colleagues on the rock desk are doing their best to take it as a compliment. But we're not sure how closely Ms Legg has been reading the paper. Elsewhere in the letter she asserts that "one of the greatest secrets of last year was how gorgeous Boz Scaggs's Some Change was". Well, it's true that only one national newspaper championed the album, and bothered to interview its author. But it was this one. A clear case of no Legg to stand on.

Jack Hughes