Technical, precise, educated, informed, but ultimately boring to anyone who doesn’t give a shit about how music works and just cares about how music sounds.
Lead singer of Long Fin Killie, violinist for Mogwai, Luke Sutherland is all about whispered, disturbed vocals and lush harmonies with pointilistic drums.
Carlos has the skill, but his jazz isn’t top notch. Santana fans want him to rock, jazz fans want him to swing, and Divine Light doesn’t really do either.
Japan is known for the most atrocious noise bands as well as some of the most saccharine pop. The Pixies were a buncha noise heads who wrote pop songs.