I think you've got the wrong idea. When they say imperfections I believe
they mean imperfections in sound that they generated themselves. Like
distortion or dissonance created to enhance other parts of the track. I
don't think you understood them.
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Rob Salit wrote:
quoted 24 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 we?ve 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.
>
> TekDz9er
>
>
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