If there was an envelope I wanted most to push, it was envelope of "accessible and fun" as it edged up against "complex and challenging".
On the problem of avant-gardism having no criterion for failure.
All art is experimental. Let's not shy away from that.
The key word there isn't 'balance', but 'your'. (Well, 'thine'.)
One of free music's cornerstones, an album of heedless challenges and curious pleasures.
Is my love of a particular kind of (non-gimmicky) storytelling better than someone else's love of a particular kind of (gimmicky) storytelling?