>S W A N S was a bad goth joke when I was a kid and then Gira fucking totally sold out. I mean the cover of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" is spectacularly awful but it got the name around to labels and he took the deal. I'm not going to speak to his past or upbringing but as a musician he was part of the same "no wave" brat pack as Sonic Youth, taking themselves very seriously as rebellious artists, ART ART ART ART WE REALLY MEAN IT WE PUT WORDS LIKE SLAVE AND RAPE ON OUR RECORDS. Just humorless, self-serious arrogance, all around.>But now I guess Gira is a grizzled Neil Young narrative so we have to hear all these breathless oral histories and inventions of a past that absolutely did not exist. They made some good records in the 1990s but the early stuff is just putrid art-school bullshit. They were atrocious live. I guess he's turning off the air conditioning at shows now. I N T E N S E.
>>128263611I lost a bit of respect for him when he said Boards of Canada were overrated and Autechre is better.
Reminder that Gira was raped in an Israeli jail.
>>128263640That’s one of his more reasonable takes though
>>128263640That’s absolutely true though
>>128263681>>128263687They make different styles of IDM, not even comparable.
>>128263655FLEX THOSE ASS MUSCLES
>>128263640chris ott is full of shit and secretly likes all these bands he trashes, he's just saying provocative things to trigger you
