Corvus Corax is my Sufjan
Simply having a catchy melody or good instrumentation seems not to be enough to establish one’s street cred in music culture anymore. As more and more people flock to Sufjan Stevens because he’s the cool thing now (or maybe sometimes even because they actually enjoy him), a lot of qualities are cited that make him great.
Maybe I’m not cool, but I don’t think Sufjan is that great (gasp). But that doesn’t mean I can’t hop on the esoteric musical bandwagon too! Let’s look at Sufjan’s commonly cited attributes, and see how Corvus Corax compares:
Talent: Check. Corvus Corax has not only collectively mastered almost every medieval instrument they can get their hands on, but they even build them themselves. Beat that.
Expert Songwriting: CC’s songs aren’t original (they’re medieval reprises), but the sheer amount of research they put into their music more than makes up for that.
Out of the Mainstream: I’d hardly call Sufjan “obscure” anymore, but I have yet to come across another person in the meatlife who’s heard of CC.
Not Heavy, i.e., not grinding in a hard-rock sort of way: Check. Nothing electronic at all, in fact.
The first step towards a wider genre of even more obscure music: Yup. Sufjan has his Spoon, Iron And Wine and The Decembrists, and CC has their Omnia, Tanzwut and In Extremo (for example).
Any attributes I’m missing?
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