From Sean Cooper Sent Tue, May 11th 1999, 22:12
From Sean Cooper Sent Tue, May 11th 1999, 22:12
>Skam can do no wrong at the moment but you only have to look at the growing disatisfaction with >some of the latest Rephlex releases to see that the tide can turn. in the interest of a certain parity of opinion (given all of the skam-stroking going on lately), skam have to my tastes done almost nothing but wrong for the past 18 months. except for the bola LP, which i legitimately enjoy, everything else they've released has struck me as tedious and musically regressive. it wouldn't bother me -- there's nothing particularly new in a flood of mediocre music being released; that, after all, is the status quo -- except that their releases are discussed so frequently and in such glowing terms that i wonder if its just a kind of laziness. people go and see, for example, the latest tom cruise film because tom cruise is in it -- that's their guarantee of something vaguely amounting to "quality" in their minds. does skam carry similar cachet? i realize there's no accounting for taste and that what's "good" amounts to nothing more (or less) than what can be argued as such. but it makes me wonder whether people actually listen to these records, or just collect them. or is that the point...? mystified, sc onnow: chokebore : a taste for bitters (amphetamine-reptile)