Noise Pop can be done very well, or it can descend into utter dreck with 'layered sound' covering up the artist's total lack of arrangement and/or compositional skill. Jack Pat's qualification of the music as repetitive strikes me as applicable to ALL genres when they're done badly (though I'm sure this isn't what they meant).
To me, the best noise pop will let me sing along and dance like an idiot the way the best pop does (ie; it should be FUN), without descending into cheap structures or cheap hooks (not all hooks are cheap, noise pop esp. should have something clever going on). Vivian Girls fufil this imo, Ravonettes fufil it I suppose, though I'm not a fan. Po-faced noise pop I don't have time for though, it's boring and at times wince-inducing, and uses 'noise' as an excuse for the pop, as if pop can't stand on it's own.
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