we should at least be reassured & grateful we perform in a genre
at least for the most part reviewed by relatively sober rational grown ups...

I think back to my days in adolescent indie new wave music back in the late 70's and 80's
and remember the sheer self indulgent self obsessed drug addled drivel
and uncontrolled humiliating hurtful snidery & spiteful provocativeness for its own sake
that passed for reviews
in the likes of the NME & Sounds and other influential teenage readership music mags and 'alterntive' fanzines..

.. and the even worse diabolically bad 'poetic' stream of conciousness shite 'reviews' in key University / Poly student ents photocopied throwaways..