Title: if you're here, you should already know this.
Product review: it's funny that so many people feel the need to reassure themselves that what they like is indeed a "valid" and "respectable" form of music. do u.s. maple know what they're doing? of course they do! what they are doing is what you hear, and what you hear is what they planned on recording. whether or not you like it is a matter for you to decide. the idea that they are amateurs plucking away arbitrarily is ignorant, yet the idea that they are genious would be a little too much. what in fact they are doing, like pioneers of deconstructed time-signatures before them, is creating albums outside of any standards regarding "song" oriented structure. do they do it well? yes. maybe not as good as others, but... they are one of the few bands around now that are interesting enough to do it.
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