you can break it down all you want. but when it comes through the speakers, some of the music comes across very atonal. their form distorts its function.

yeah, p-funk could do similar things, but the bass and drums ALWAYS kept you rooted in that bop, the rhythm.

to me, having to do that much work as a listener, in a way distorts the intent of music. it turns it from a body experience into a cerebral one.

it becomes some of the most pretentious art for arts sake ala Joyce with Finnigan's Wake, Robert Morris' minimalist sculptures, of the film's of Malick

they have merit no doubt, but they also have huge pitfalls