Ian (F) MartinI suppose part of it is the way the article ties "the way most people listen to music" with "wide ranging influences", which I understand and appreciate as a mode of listening but wonder if it can foster a certain shallowness as an artist. The live environment here in Tokyo seems to produce the opposite extreme, with bands finding a sound or aesthetic and drilling deep down into that one thing. That might be why Japan has for so long had a reputation for extreme music of one sort or another.
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