Writing something of artistic relevance is not about technical riffs, or catchy hooks. It's about capturing the uncapturable; invoking the intangible and writing something thats value cannot be measured against a simple criteria of favoured musical elements.

Passion is crucial, but passion alone is not the deciding factor. Musical depth and originality is equally crucial, but does not provide the elusive key to the door, so sought after. Artistic relevance is more than the sum of its parts - this is merely the foundation. What we search for, endlessly and too often fruitlessly, is as intangible as a void.

Like the deficit of tangible matter in the universe relative to its gravitational pull, it is this creative "dark matter" that brings into existence the desired apex of musical expression.