[kid cue]

anyway, i think his view is definitely colored by his own fixation on minimal, and that genre's concepts of 'balance' and 'restraint', esp. given how he compares his favorite tracks on AHDO to Villalobos and Luciano.

(does Villalobos count as minimal?)

it's also ironic that he doesn't think to read any of UW's albums as albums, since he's (said that he's) a bedroom listener at heart. i do kind of agree with him on STITI, though--it always felt a bit too big, like every track was trying to reach a bit too far. and the drum & bass track (i forget the title) always felt a little too timely & obvious. i think i never thought of STITI in these terms because the uniform production (smooth, hazy, like in 'soft-focus') made me want the whole thing to make sense.

but better that than (as dubman says) AHDO-esque complacency..

ps. i wrote this before reading Beautiful Burnout's motherly scolding