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I always count on the human ear to adjust to the sound- when that reveals a world of subtleties, I'm all for it. I've had that experience seeing acoustic music unamplified in a nice hall. At first, you think maybe it's a bit quiet, but that in itself makes you listen differently. Then, after a couple minutes, you can hear EVERYTHING.
Kind of like a nature scene- just like it really. The more you look, the more there is to see.
BUT- it's tough going from hypeland to something with subtlety and dimension. Like the listener is hearing the usual hyped stuff and then your effort at natural comes on. The thing that can make the transition successful, is a striking arrangement and the music itself. Things like for real deep unrolledoff bass and the shing of cymbals and chimes can help give the unhyped recording a expansive open sound that quickly tells the listener's brain that yeah this is worth a good listen here and that it's "more than" the usual hype candidate in some significant way.
It's that transition that's tough- for album listening, the ear quickly opens up and does it's miraculous work.
The difference can be the difference between a listener with all their senses peeled, leaning forward to take everything in, and a listener with their senses dulled and using their miraculous brain to turn it all down and filter out the very hype that's such a kick for about one hot minute.
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