Eh..it doesn't have to be conventional at all to come across as organic or coming from a genuine, truthful sensibility. I want to say effortless, but that doesn't work either. But it's more than just not feeling heavy-handed, at least on a technical level. There's something incredibly cacophonic about his music that almost defies the idea of organic, to me. What I meant by the last sentence is not that itching the same spot until it bleeds to be an honorable or pleasurable action, but just the kind of give an image to the sort of madman, almost absurd dedication that the music communicates.
Yeah, you caught that before the edit. I'm having trouble pinning it down too. I ended up landing on this:
To me, something feels inorganic if there's an air of it being just an ambitious perfectionist trying to come across a certain way and appear impressive to other people or meta-game the reaction, and something feels organic if it feels like they're only out to impress themselves and indulge in their interests naturally, regardless of whether or not they're being watched. To me, an unhinged psychotic madman (and really cacophony in general) would be more likely to fall under that category than not, because psychotic madmen tend to just do whatever they want without a care for perception.
It's rare (and seem bizarre) for me to think of total eccentrics who 100% march to the beat of their own drum (with music that feels that way) and who aren't easily swayed by others as inorganic. That's close to synonymous to the definition, to me.
In any case, that's what I mean when I defend the idea that "some artists can indeed feel like they're trying too hard."
Edit: I guess you're using it in more of a "this music sounds so intuitive and natural that it has a familiarity to it that seems like it should have always existed, and somebody was bound to make it eventually" kind of way. Like the way Ceremony sounds, for example.
