Person Dude said:
Is this even music? I don't mean that to be offensive, it's just so perplexing that I don't know what it is. It's like industrial metal only they took out the metal and put in ambiance.
You aren't being offensive at all. When I first started listening to bands like NWW and Coil, I couldn't really peg it as "music" either. But listening to it has really expanded my perception of what that word really means. It's audio. I can listen to it. I feel a contrived set of emotions and thoughts because of it. To me, that's music, albeit at its most basic form.
Now this song in particular is actually from a less mature album from this band, where people wrote it off as some stoners goofing off with tape editing, trying to make the most chaotic sound they could. There's actually later tracks that one could try to find meaning within, but its definitely not easy. This definitely isn't the most accessible music out there.
All I know for sure? First time I turned on "Homotopy to Marie" on youtube, I had shivers down my spine for the next few hour. No music has ever done that to me before. That's when I got hooked.