Dead Kennedys guitarist goes after the modern music industry 10 years ago
And way, WAY more music sucks even worse now than at any other time in history.
If you don't know where to look (or maybe more importanly how to look for it), then confronting the horrors of the default mainstream pop nightmare set before us, and being unable locate something that suits your tastes can feel truly hopeless, and leave one completely bereft of satisfaction.
I don't think that's a contraversial statement.
The shining examples really do get buried in an avalanche of gruel.
Meanwhile, experiments like Black MIDI are tangentially interesting, but not actually useful.