“There's this whole cadre of bands over in the UK walking through the world at 45 degrees, rubbing sleep from their groggy eyes, and bagging birds at a staggering rate. They're plug-in comers to the Brit-Pop oracle, though they claim no allegiance to the genre, and have as much Blur in their britches as they do crusty Levellers. Operators like The Mountaineers, The Beta Band, we're talking about he”