Eno’s comment - awesome

I like Mr Eno's music and he's obviously a smart guy, but I'm not sure I agree with his comment about no-one getting beyond Roxy Music and Talking Heads (notably two bands that HE was associated with).

There is challenging and interesting music out there which take us further than Roxy and the Heads. SunO))) for example, or Susumu Yokota, Ben Frost, Murcof, all come from a Sound-Design/avant-garde place and none sound like Roxy/Heads.

Arcade Fire/ Arctic Monkeys / Death Cab /Etc do what they do and people love them for it. But even within the rock genre there is newness and experimentalism. Deerhoof, Field Music, Boredoms, Rangers, Animal Collective and many more all doing interesting things and sounding new. They are obscurist by definition, like Scott Walker.

All of thesehave elements of past bands, but so did Roxy Music (bits of Velvets/Iggy/Rock n roll) and Talking Heads (The Modern Lovers/Television). These bands were popular and sold lots of records, but if either of them had made a record like The Drift, it would stay on the shelves. People like a melody and a beat, and there aren't many of us with the patience or the stomach to take on Mr Walkers latest works.

I've been in the group for years and I know, he always listens.