PJ Harvey is the one that I like most in that list, but she seems to have attained some sort of god status amongst critics, and given I find her output patchy (oh but when she hits highs they *are* high) I think she merits overrated, but don't mistake that for bad. I took me a while to work out that Wavves is just boring, fuzz is there for emotional effect, not to mask the fact that you don't have a melody, admittedly he may have improved, I wouldn't know. dirty Projectors are another critics darling. I've tried to like them, I don't know if I'm missing something, but if I have to work that hard to simply squueze some actual enjoyment rather than some sort of admiration of someone's wanking ability I'd rather spend my time more fruitfully elsewhere. I do adore the national though. They've been at it for years and seem to be in danger of become darlings, though it's not really their fault in this case, they've not dramatically changed their approach in a decade. If we're going fo underrated though, Built to Spill leap to mind. Pavement stole the music press pages (and were perhaps overrated though I'm a massive fan, and Malkmus's subsequent solo/jicks stuff) and they were criminally ignored. Ooh, and I too quite like Laura, she's good at what she does, it's just i have several artists of a similar ilk in my collection who do it better. I guess she just did it when there was a lull in the music scene here, just as some other female artists were beginning to do their stuff too. Best of luck to her, good lass.