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Originally Posted by joy_circumcision
This silly nostalgia trend that's been going on in underground music since the mid-2000s is insipid at best. Even in the eighties there wasn't such an active regression in music. When the "mainstream" is doing a better job of pushing forward three-chord musicality (via exploration of new technologies, instrumentation styles, syntheses with dub music and moving beyond dubstep even, creating new trends even if they're short lived as long as they are vaguely original, etc.) there is a major problem. Tame Impala continue this weird rockist bent where underground rock "strips down" and goes back to archaic forms for a certain aesthetic. The aesthetic is insufferable in its lack of real ideals beyond venerating "masters" (read: bands that give boomers hard-ons quicker than six viagra and welfare cuts) and continuing this dumb feedback loop rock music has found itself in. It would be one thing if bands like this were rejected, but the supposed bastions of cutting-edge new music are treating these people as visionaries when they're just sycophants. It's not cute, it's not interesting, it's all been done before, and I'd like the 21st Century to start now, please. Hip hop, for all the co-opting and diffusion of its politics that's occurred in the last few years, at least continues to try to grow and expand. Obviously, this isn't to say all rock music is bad "these days" or that there aren't serious concerns to be had with other spheres of music, but enough is enough; let's get some meaningful, contemporary rock music.
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What you're essentially saying is that if a new piece of music isn't novel in some way, it isn't worth anything. That's a pretty horse**** thing to say in my opinion. Yes, novelty should be considered when evaluating music, but is it the end-all-be-all? Can there be nothing else without novelty? Of course not, the very idea seems laughable, not least because it immediately discredits 99.9% of music in existence.
Tame Impala is derivative throwback 60's psych nostalgia wankery. Sure. It's basically just Paul McCartney + synths. But I can put that aside and enjoy the music on its own merits anyway.
And to be honest, I find it very difficult to take someone seriously who rates a "noisecore" album, comprised of eighty micro-tracks, 8/10 stars (which means you think it's better than 88.81% of albums you've rated). Because when you get to that stage of your music appreciation career, it just looks like you're trying too hard.
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