shades of elliot smith and gang gang dance

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with certain bands, and whats interesting to me with music, is the musicians obsession with the medium itself. In elliot Smith we are offered crisp recordings of beautiful guitar ballads, 'high resolution' recordings in acoustic which the minute details are obvious. we canhear elliots hand bracing the guitar neck, or hear a slight buzz of a string, all these are intended-we are supposed to hear little imperfections and static, these are the recording itself and, its one-offness is captured and catalogued indefinitely. this is just like gang gang dance with their tricky distortions, mandatory dance beat, their signature antithetical openings and closings. with glass candy it is anologue synths. What we are hearing is a certain fetish for the mechanism, it is like a director who identifies with the eye of the camera, a writer with his typewriter. music is unique though, in that we hear his/her obsession directly without having to interpret these qualities (but i suppose it is necessary for them to'register' unless it is completely unnoticed ). music is less symbolic and more ...... well the symbolism is contextual.

or what is interesting music