[NewMusic] Perfume of a Critic's Burning Flesh

[weasel walter]

> Writing about music is a vain exercise
> in both senses of the word.  The "moronic
> clatter" in this instance belonged instead
> to the reviewer.  

my primary problem with the review is not that she didn't really like it,
but rather that it seems like the writer a person who specifically enjoys
"indie rock" and "electronica" (musics that predominately seem to depend
in linear narrative and steady isorhythms) and is reviewing an album of
improvised abstract music using innappropriate criteria and perspective. 

of all the reviewers at The Wire, why the hell did this particular person
get to review it? wouldn't it have been more interesting to have someone
who actually has a relation to improvised music give a
positive/neutral/negative criticism of what is essentially a totally
improvised offering by a rock band that is normally associated with
playing predetermined songs? i think i'd we'd all be more interested in
reading about that. 

instead i get a 19 year old ATP-worshipping "critic" telling me that my
drumming is "pointless" or whatever she said. you might as well hand a
xenakis record to a mushroom or a gorilla and see what it thinks about
it. 

now you know why i want to round them all up and shoot them. 

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