padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
good letter. nice to see someone challenging the nuum rather than just accept it as conventional (tyrannical?) wisdom.
Oh come one. Who just accepts the nuum as "tyrannical" wisdom these days? If anything I see people (by which I mean journos and music nerds on the internet e.g. dissensus e.g. the only people who give a shit about things like the "nuum" anyway) griping about it constantly. I understand Muggs writing about a specific review of specific album but in a more general sense perhaps if you don't like the theory you should just ignore it. it's not as if Reynolds is some kind of éminence grise who's secretly directing everyone to write off all UK bass music that doesn't fit into one nuum permutation.