En passant i ett inlägg om kanadensiska bandet Apostle of Hustle gör Marcello Carlin - en av mina absoluta favoritskribenter - en insiktsfull distinktion mellan glädjelöst "experimentellt" noise-avantgarderi och fri improvisation:

Buried deep within the rather exhausting Morley piece on Arcade Fire in this month’s Observer Music Monthly is the subtly slighting reference to current Canadian music as “lightly experimental.” A quarter of a century later, those dreams of stadium entryism are evidently hard to still, as though any group who didn’t want to be as big as or bigger than U2 are yet somehow a failure. Or perhaps the remark can be read as meaning a supposedly feeble counterpart to “heavy experimentation,” i.e. the “real thing,” an unwavering high-fibre diet of Sunn O))), Wolf Eyes and Vibecathedral. That and nothing but that would form the foundations of a roughshod but joyless life (whereas even with the heaviest free jazz, the Brötzmanns and Benninks of this world, there is a skipping deftness even in the most intense of moments, a perception of light and shade as well as Dadaist slapstick and unstoppable rhythmic flow).