"Orion" - These New Puritans

[huinare]

This is really riveting and creepy.  Hard to categorize, although some of the background music is reminiscent of GoT music to me.
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[wheelrider.livejournal.com]

It's tough to pigeonhole modern bands into any one genre... But anyway, witch house is often described as creepy and minimalist -- or, possibly, dance music for brooding wizards!

[huinare.livejournal.com]

It's tough to pigeonhole modern bands into any one genre..

THIS. It's why I tend to appreciate modern (or, postmodern, or, fusion, or, whatever) music/lit/art/drama/etc. Convention is a tyrant and art should be liberated! *flail!*
Although it's a problem whenever people ask what "kind of" music I like.

...witch house is often described as creepy and minimalist -- or, possibly, dance music for brooding wizards!

Saruman: Dance...?
Gandalf: Don't tell me you've never danced.
Saruman: I don't want to talk about it.
Gandalf: Try dancing with hobbits!
Saruman: ... *puts in earbuds, presses a few buttons on MP3 player, and zones out enigmatically*

[wheelrider.livejournal.com]

It has also made it tough to describe my band to people. Very tough. Never figured out a decent "elevator pitch"...

Saruman, muttering to self: I have more dignity than to show skinny old-man legs while whirling about in some irksome jig.

[huinare.livejournal.com]

Elevator pitches are difficult when one's thing defies easy categorization, I'm sure (although, as a general rule, the more things defy categorization, the more awesome they are).


...skinny old-man legs while whirling about in some irksome jig.

HA! Indeed.