Ok yeah no wonder this is polarizing: it's 110 minutes of avant-garde minimalist noisy modern classical. Sounds like a fucking bop, innit? Subtitled Goodbye 20th Century, it's basically Sonic Youth playing works by avant-garde composers such as Reich, Cage, or Wolff. So. It's difficult. Like, hella difficult. Better be prepared for avant-garde stuff before jumping into this. It's the kind of record that ends up midway between annoying ("Piano Piece") and fascinating ("Having Never Written?"). Good thing is, it's so weird it never bores. Although it's kinda grating sometimes, I wasn't bored or disgusted. More importantly, this is the kind of work that absolutely needs to be done to push further away the limits of accessible music. The more people who like "Teenage Riot" ending up listening to this, the better.
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