regarding this floating points disc, i just want to double down on the analysis. it's enjoyable, but it's just not that creative. iirc, the first record pulled heavily from chick corea. on this one, you can tell when he wants to sound like rdj, or autechre, or key/goettel/(western), or radiohead or debussy or whatever else - and if you don't know, you don't know, but if you do know, it pulls the sound into the realm of something that already exists.

but, i mean, i've been saying for around ten years now that this genre is pretty much closed. a lot of people are just tuning in; i get it. but, pretty much anything you can imagine doing in techno has already been done, so, like rock music, what's left to do is just novelty acts.

and, i think that's the broader point that a lot of people are missing - it's not just rock that's over, it's the collection of genres that developed alongside rock that are over, too.

this guy is still pretty young. he could still find himself.

but, as it is, you have to interpret this as what it is, which is derivative pop music rather than forward-thinking experimental music.

so, i'll give him a B for the enjoyment level. but, we both know he deserves an F for plagiarism.

https://floatingpoints.bandcamp.com/album/crush