Just for a laugh …
So many odd assertions, I don’t know where to start.
lols. jfc. talk about filler. they dragged someone off the shit posting desk to write that. also, seems like it’s 20 years too late to even make a joke.
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Fucking guardian.
Trying to be cool, but it reads like a cross between chat GPT and my mum has written it.
Dreadful.
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c*nts 
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Must be a quiet news day where the reporter needs to make an article to earn a salary
I did seem a few decades late.
Lol, you guys are harsh
Didn’t read that bad to me, someone on the outside peering in.
Hope you guys don’t judge other peoples music the same way 
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Standard Guardian bollocks.
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Of course we do. Its called discernment. Having highly tuned discernment faculty is what makes a good artist good. They can tell shite from brilliance.
That guardian article is fine for your sunday morning cafe middle class lets go out for brunch comfortablely well off never quite made it to hipster bastards.
Total bollocks for us lot. But we’re smug cunts living in our own tiny fucking bubble thinking we’re all clever.
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It’s about what I would expect from a journalist with little background assigned to cover Machina Bristonica. Maybe a bit better than average (it would be worse in North America). I look at the Guardian daily, but I am aware of its weaknesses. As such, it is not terrible, just kind of meh, and it will probably serve regular readers who are looking for slight diversions over their breakfast.
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The music I make is derivative and uninspiring … and when I listen to others it’s largely judged within the same viewpoint.
I don’t post it anywhere as it’s just adding to the deluge of trash that is filing up Spotify … why add to it
As mentioned … it’s fine for people who aren’t interested in synth stuff. The guardian is going downhill in general quality .
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I hate journalists
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I mean, modular synths are extremely weird to the vast majority of people, and it’s healthy to look at it with a bit of bemused detachment once in a while. Electronic music instruments are definitely not on the radar of most news readers, so this seems like a good angle for a British paper to cover a rapidly growing event in the British music industry. At this point, I think all coverage is good coverage, especially for indie makers.
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When electronic music goes into mainstream media… I always remember that cringe from 2010’s “journalists suspected that Burial was project of either Richard D. James or Norman Cook”… That level of understanding the subject
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I had the same exact reaction. Even for a Sunday puff piece, this is far below the Guardian’s writing standards.
I don’t even mean informationally. It’s also a jumbled mess on a basic compositional level. No structure. Baffling flow from one paragraph to the next. Nonexistent style.
Blech.
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This should be OT MKIII’s tagline
A good time to reference the Gell-Mann amnesia effect
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Lol, I expected a horrible article but it’s not that bad. The headline is horrible but that’s to be expected as most headlines are sensationalist and been like that for a while.
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The whole premise of the article is false though, just because hardware is more popular now doesn’t mean it was ever maligned
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What a time to be alive.
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