Oh, Manchester, So Much To Answer For

Placebo's new single, "The Bitter End," is just as rockin' than much of their previous material, and just as ace (think "Every You Every Me," with a slightly more delectably sinister edge). Lead singer Brian Molko's voice is one of the most distinctive in music these days, and it's criminal that he's so unknown in the U.S. Their cover of T.Rex's "20th Century Boy" from the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack is gorgeous. Molko's vox takes me away to somewhere rainy and works me over relentlessly for an entire Sunday.