Re: (idm) Re: Flanger

From eric hill
Sent Wed, Jul 7th 1999, 00:55

>There is subtlety coming out of this album's Digipak ass hole. The
>problem is that there is nothing else. Subtlety without some sort of big
>mess on top to differentiate it is nothing to me. Essentially, what I'm
>trying to say is that subtle factors are relative, not intrinsic to the
>sounds or styles themselves, and Atom Heart seems to have forgotten this
>a while back. He bares the intellectually-challenging tidbits to the
>sunlight for blatant perusal by every listener.

since you can't have subtlety without something relative to bounce it off
of, this album doesn't qualify as subtle. without subtlety, it has to be
obvious. obviously what, i don't know yet. 

eric

p.s. thanks to ninjeff!