Well, it figures. XLR8R's a crap magazine. I'd lie to them too. ;)
quoted 16 lines These guys completely contradicted themselves in the two interviews that
>These guys completely contradicted themselves in the two interviews that
>were recently talked about.
>
>In the XLR8R interview, Mike says about the forthcoming album, "We want to
>do this one at our own pace and only deliver it when we think we1ve got
>something that is absolutely perfect, with no flaws."
>
>Then in the NME interview he says, "It's okay to be imperfect - in
>fact the imperfections are where the magic is. To us, perfect music sounds
>sterile and dead. The tunes we write are imperfect, the sounds are
>imperfect, even the artwork. I can't listen to perfect music, it bores me.
>We actually put a lot of effort into making things rough and difficult and
>noisy, even more so on this than on the last album."
>
>When I read things like this it makes me think that their philosophies have
>no credibility. I wish I hadn't read that.
philip sherburne
staff hack, xlr8r
www.xlr8r.com
contributing editor, neumu
https://www.neumu.net/needledrops