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Depends what kind of music it is, and whether or not I have the right frame of reference to either do accurate justice to its majesty or to intelligently criticize what I find to be objectionable about it. I have no idea what makes a "good" zydeco album, for instance, because zydeco is one type of music that I truly cannot stand (rare is it that a genre of music is so objectionable to me; I have not heard a single note of zydeco I could stand) and therefore I am simply not the right person to write about it. It would be like me writing about modern dance. I know whether or not I liked a performance, but I lack the vocabulary to critique it in any way that the true devotee would find helpful or insightful.
However, in the areas of psych/experimental/folk/rock and such, I have more fun dishing out praise for stuff I like than wasting the same amount of energy giving negative attention to something I don't like, at least in terms of actual "review writing." Of course on messageboards and the like, I enjoy a good slam as much as anyone.
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