The year 2000 may have marked a new millennium, but the decade that followed featured a Thai pop scene full of the same melodic sparkle and eclecticism as the nation’s ’90s output. Thai-Belgian singer Palmy’s dreamy love songs mixed giant choruses, crunchy guitars and DJ scratches to critical and commercial acclaim, while Bodyslam’s poignant, heartbroken rock entranced fans of US emo. Bangkok punks Big Ass brought similar chuggy, palm-muted guitar thrills to the charts, while Groove Riders kept things interesting for funk fanatics, with gloriously smooth slices of sunshine.