The Great Escape review – raunchy rap, cracking synthpop and rock'n'roll fireworks

Various venues, Brighton
A handful of standout acts were exhilarating but this celebration of new music highlighted a drift towards sameness and whimsyIf Brighton’s three-day festival of new music is any guide, and it’s usually a good one, the talent pool feeding into pop is currently on the tepid side. The sense in previous years that you could dive in at random and pluck out pearls is missing. The drift is towards homogeneity and uninspired solipsism. So many indistinguishable drea