HAH!!!
So if you wrote that before my motherly scolding... how come you knew I had given you a motherly scolding? Ain't seein' no "last edited by..." on your post!
Nuff scolding now, anyway.
Aside from that, I think there is a time-warp in that he tries to compare STITI with a genre that is really much more recent (and, yeah, Villalobos is minimal in my book). It is a bit like comparing apples and oranges imo. STITI pushed the boundaries at the time, exploring different musical areas, not just "dance" or "prog" or "ambient" but, for example, with tracks like Juanita/Kiteless/TDOL, were developping a more whole, rounded piece that incorporated
all of those things in a single piece.
I am really not suprised that Juanita comes up as the fan's favourite in polls because it represents the essence of the whole UW sound. Something that is difficult to categorise.
As for Sherburne being a "bedroom listener" that would tend to indicate to me that he would listen to albums as a whole, wouldn't it?