listened to aspects of physics, one of those amorphous acoustic-electronic bedroom style projects that everyone who 'has a friend who's really great/creative/into his computer' will be forced to like at some point in their lives. it's like mice parade sans the late '90s chic or badly drawn boy merciless pop sentiments. these albums are always prompting the question ' why do we need so much music' and why isn't this person just taking the time to actually do something real with the project instead of sending the dat off to be mastered and never thinking of it again? wouldn't the indie world be much better if people consolidated their efforts, pulled their bedrooms together and put out only the best? or is this one of those mountain goats scenerios, where documentation is synonymous with creation. does he even remember all of the songs he's written?
i'm playing devil's advocate in a way because i am all about documentation and believe in the semi-inspired whirlwind of lo-fi or singular, uncritically or commerically motivated music making. but is it meant for a general, disinterested or uninitiated audience? isn't the beauty of proliferation that individual scenes can have actual, solidified objects associated with it, a sound coming from a group, a locale, a membership...or has computerland destroyed that physicality entirely, or does that even matter? viritual communities, labels as communities (warp, aethestics, young god, mego)...
can publications have communities? the wire may, internationally...there seem to be for things like mc sweeneys or basement life (he he), even sound collector even if its more social then philosophical. hmm. it's hard to imagine publications like tiger's eye, creem, early nme - things people HAD to read to stay in touch with their communities. then again, at the nation everyone EVERYONE read certain pubs and you could jump into the next level of any author's argument virtually w/o having to reference the pub (the new yorker, nytimes, the guardian, salon, slate, the post, in these times, etc).