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Bjork has this kind of abstraction and formalism that you associate with art music or avant-garde music.

I don't think my music's as traditional as people make it out.

We made music that wouldn't be in synch.

I love truly forward-thinking music, and I'm not even sure I'd describe my work as that, even.

It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me.

One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed.

To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.

The melodies I come up with, they're not normal.

Ironically, my tastes aren't that experimental, and I wouldn't describe my music on the surface as being overtly experimental, either.

I know it sounds weird, but the kind of music I write isn't the kind of music that I listen to, which is quite underground, left-of-centre stuff like PJ Harvey and Tom Waits.

I spent my whole musical career trying to be different and make songs that people think shouldn't go together... go together.

We love the idea of putting out music in a non-conventional way.

Making 13-minute tracks is pretty alternative, I think!

With 'Boxer,' we made the kind of music we wanted to make and didn't really worry about what the expectation was.

The majority of the people think that noise is not music. I want to accept noise and even errors and glitches. I enjoy them.

We used to have endless discussions with journalists about that: 'Why are you calling it noise? It's not noise, it's music,' and make references to everybody from John Cage to whoever.

I'm not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.

I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.

If music was made by some kind of critical theorist, it would sound like my music.

My more risky or avant garde music is not that well known to a wider audience, but I wish it was.

I think that Zappa intentionally made his music weird, but did it with intelligence.

The first artist that did it for me with just production was James Blake... I was just blown away... I feel like James Blake kind of was the one that introduced me into that world.

When I'm making my own record, it's real work for me.

We're thrilled to play an offbeat place. Our music fits with it. I love playing unusual venues.

Being associated with songs that push boundaries is amazing. If the rest of my career consists of a majority of songs that are experimental, I'll be a happy man.