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Philip Sherburne
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Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:33:27 -0800
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Re: [idm] BOC Extreme Contradiction
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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