music is developed through what one hears.
I LOVE bands that remind me of sonic youth, that take off from where sonic youth left ofrf (unwound, polvo, Parts & Labor even archers of loaf in their skronk) and that is what I look for in new acts. I WANT to hear some sort of good influence. There is nooone out there whose influcences cannot be dicscerned, and I woud much rather prefer to have them explore the groundwork laid by sonic youth and branca and chatham and such than to have them mine the extremely well-trod sound world of the R&B world, or the blues world, etc.
I think that is a beautiful thing.
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