![]() ![]() Such healthy cynicism may not curry any favor with fervent popists, but it’s hard to imagine Nielson giving a shit. I just don’t like the sound of digital technology.” ![]() Even Animal Collective sounds a little bit crass to me. I feel like it’s OK to just pretend that dubstep doesn’t exist. I don’t really care about nowness and newness, so I’m not that proud of being alive in 2012. In a recent interview, he lamented the idea of following where the future is music is supposed to go: “The world doesn’t need more music. But those exceptions do exist - what’s The Village Green Preservation Society, if not a profound expression of nostalgia and warmth toward the personal and ephemeral.Īt 32 years old, Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s Ruban Nielson is still a young man, but he’s put a healthy distance between himself and most modern music. This doesn’t always make for interesting art - once something is old, it’s not easy to make it new again. And yet, for as prevalent as the “out with the old, in with the new” mentality can be, just as frequently there’s a feeling of skepticism toward the ideas of younger iconoclasts and of reverence to the tried and true. Pop music is decades-rich in generation gap precedent, from The Who’s youth anthems like “The Kids Are Alright” and “My Generation” in the 1960s, on up to present-day artists like Elite Gymnastics, who value the limitless ideal of laptop production to dusty old ideas about analog studio sound. ![]()
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