Points for effort?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Do artists deserve critical credit for trying ambitious stuff? Interesting debate on various tumblr blogs concerning indie dudes Of Montreal (beloved of byebyepride and piratemoggy, tho I don't think I've seen either pronounce on the new album) (pot80 luvs it tho) who have ISSUES with dismissive reviews of their latest waxing.

The original short interviews
Some back and forth about it.
My own response (well, currently it's at the top - catch it while you can!!)

I think this is an interesting little debate.

Comments

Re: Skeletal Lamping reviewed in full:

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

[not taking 'Ziltoid The Omniscient' to be a benchmark for 'extraordinary ambition,' above; I meant that it's one of those ones that's a little bit hard to write about without sounding completely bonkers:
"Well you see Devin Townsend's made an album of the usual waves-of-sound metal that sort of sounds like a children's audiobook and this is an awesome thing."
as opposed to:
"of Montreal are still doing that jangly indie almost-pop thing."]