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Originally Posted by Savage Clone
"Eclectic" is a cop-out buzzword for people who can't be bothered to write or read in-depth about a release encompassing a variety of stylistic influences. It bugs me too.
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ZING! It's problematic for me because you don't ever get eclectic - for me, putting together a series of influences, largely sourced in American pop and folk, isn't really that eclectic; when things are genuinely eclectic, it become incredibly boring. What is interesting to me is the successful deployment of disparate elements in one sound: NNCK, for instance, take a couple of fairly disparate elements and merge them in one sound - it's not 'eclectic', but it is 'innovative', and rarely is anything 'original'.