Are my musical preferences schizophrenic, or is my schizophrenia because of my musical preferences? You decide.
Lately, I seem to be thriving on genres prefixed by Post.
I like all Gothenburg style Melodic Death and Thrash metal, all riff-intensive rock and industrial, and most progressive, ambient and post-rock music. I also like heavy music with slow, acoustic-electric refrains, experimental jazz and fusion, and trip-hop. I like that twangy guitar tone that so many Indie and Alternative artists seem to covet. I like walls of sound and distortion even if it sounds like noise. Energy, ambiance, atmosphere, weird time signatures, off-beat breakdowns, 4/4 breakdowns, legato Pentatonic phrases, staccato Phyrgian phrases, epic riffs and arpeggios wiggling into consciousness between catchy hooks and monster, shredding basslines, indecipherable complexity, melodies that sink in on listen #37, catchy hooks that are accessible on first exposure, overdrive, Wah, songs that haunt the shower-box and lyrics that I can quote four years from now. 4 Track production, Lacquer mastered analog production, sharp digital production and muddy amateur production. I want lines that I can put on my blog that people will plagiarize to sound cool and new music I predict shall be the seminal records that the next generation and the ones that follow will covet.
Give me atonal Holdsworth nonsense and unforgettable Shins pop normality. Give me Kings of Leon reverb and Meshuggah crunch. Carcass brutality and Bundy slap. Give me what you think music is. I'll take it all.