wankery

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So much about Coheed and Cambria's work cries out for ridicule: the '70s-art-rock-derived instrumental wankery, the skyscraping, get-your-Geddy-on vocals ...

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  • Between Lieberman and Broder, today's WaPo op-ed section has almost reached cosmological levels of wankery. —  Matthew Yglesias
  • But there was a lot of self-indulgent wankery (is there any other kind?), so I was happy for the ongoing discussion on —  Hidden City
  • The group are either absolutely beloved (lauded for being musical innovators and noted for their intricate arrangements) or absolutely hated (ripped into for their penchant for sentence-long song titles and accused of instrumental wankery), with very little lukewarm criticism in between. —  CHARTattack:News Feed
  • Parthenon: Parthenon, that passage is some serious wankery. —  Oliver Willis
  • Zeitgeist, letting up briefly for one extended period of instrumental wankery-¨United States, ¨ a song that ends up functioning as a transition into the second half of the album. —  Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
 

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