Eric's Metamorphosis

It’s funny because it’s true. I’m not posting this with the same level of disdain hipsters would have for me because of my non-indie-ness, but partly because I’ve seen Art Historians do the same thing with crappy art: “They don’t get it because they aren’t deep enough” or whatever. The truth is that most of these bands I hear suck. Artistry is gone and tinny, tone deaf voices are in. There are some exceptions to these groups as I have big respect for Blind Pilot, Yo La Tengo, The National, Beirut, Antony & the Johnsons, along with Sigur Rós, but only because I enjoy their music and they’re actually talented, not because I enjoy engaging in some obscurantist pissing contest with my peers, throwing out band names that could only be thought up by anal-retentive half-wits attempting to look homeless while maintaining a college-level vocab.