Blog: Beats Per Minute

So I'm listening to DeepChord — old DeepChord , which does not sound terribly different from new DeepChord-and it's got me wondering at what point focusing on a certain aesthetic runs the risk of turning into relying on that aesthetic. Is it when that aesthetic's "cultural moment" has passed but an artist's vision has not? Is it during a lull in an artist's output, during which we might reexamine their earlier material and see that, hey, maybe there hasn't been much stylistic evolution happening here at all? And why do some artists (such as DeepChord) seem to "get away [...]