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submitted by Nick Jul 30th 2018 08:00 pm (stereogum.com)
Here's a phrase that tends to bug me when it comes up in music criticism: "style over substance." It's usually thrown around when a writer wants to talk about how a band's flashy but doesn't have much to say, or how they've got some high concepts but no real complexity to them, or even just…
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