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Glacis's avatar

I’ve started a campaign called Make Euan Great Again #MEGA…. But in all seriousness I think the art of the album is being lost and people consume music in a way that they just don’t care. I still care. Nothing is better than a perfectly crafted album. Jeff Tweedy covered Richard Dawson on his substack the other day. There’s two artists who produced perfect albums in YHF and Peasant. If I’m honest, I don’t think there are many albums that nail it from start to finish but at least there used to be time, thought and effort put into the construction of a records. Still matters to some of us. Anyway, rambling…

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I'm pretty sure that most people, especially the under thirties, don't care much about albums anymore too, and that it's probably familiarity and memory lane keeping them alive in the older generation. Although there are some wonderful albums, so many in my vinyl collection are/were (I sold a lot of them) let down by a few tracks, so I'm actually a digital/streaming fan.

I thought more about this overnight and I'd actually expect the album to be more of a priority for the less single based, more alternative music that I listen to, but even in this realm I'm struggling much more than I did 7 years ago to find great LPs. There's definitely something going on, perhaps a collective artistic ADD caused by the constant screen staring and information consumption?

I'm going to start interviewing a few artists, perhaps I'll throw the question out there and see if I can get some clues as to what's happening.

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