It's hard to pinpoint elkkle's intentions in "Diderot."
The latest from the Australian performer, whose music seems to share the same smoke and mirror routine he has as an artist, feels confusing and erratic, but still oddly the work of genius. It's dysfunctional structure goes against the majority of rules in theory and still maintains the semblance of a beat or steady through line.
Largely experimental, similar to artists like Kanye who continue to push boundaries and subvert expectations of what music is, can, and should be, elkkle's work spits in the face of music bloggers like myself. Is there a purpose to this experimentation other than the impulse to reach out beyond the barriers of song structure? Does this make it intrinsically strong based on the principle of purposefully going against the grain? Or does it reach too high?
"Diderot" is a song that will divide a lot of people. I'm not even sure how I feel about it. It's a difficult departure that's confoundingly magnetic.
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