esa ruoho wrote:
quoted 1 line > http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A3895806
this amused me:
*Jefferson Petrey* asks: Many listeners I have spoken to have been
divided about your most recent work. Half express profound inspiration
about their experiences with the recent albums, and the other half seem
to yearn for you to return to your earlier sound. Have you encountered
this and what do you have to say in response?
*
RB*: It's funny because it's one of the things we've often had levelled
at us since Incunabula, our first album on Warp. The first album was
more of a compilation of old material. So when we came out with Amber,
which was genuinely the first album we put out on Warp, everyone was
like, "Whoa you've gone all ambient, what's happened?" Then two albums
after that, when Chiastic Slide came out, they were like, "Oh this is
really cold and computery, not warm and lush like Amber." So basically
we get this domino flip every time we release something. We just have to
come to terms with it. People are polarised completely. Some people
won't accept the new album until they've come to like the last album,
and some people say, "Draft was horrible, it was really cold and edgy."
And then a year later when you put a new album out they say, "Oh I hope
it compares to Draft cos' Draft was brilliant." This time we've had a
lot of warm responses from critics and the media, or whoever gets in
first, I just think you can't help but divide people.
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