[EDITORIAL] The Album Experience: What It Was VS. What It Is

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Earlier this morning, I was listening to this video while cooking some breakfast. The author, Mic The Snare, purposefully went an entire month without using any music streaming services — no Spotify, no Tidal, you get the idea — and resorting to CDs instead. I won’t spoil the video to you if you wish to watch it, and, thankfully, the seed that germinated this idea I’m about to propose came very early on.

About fifty seconds into the video, Nick said something that got me thinking: “I figured that limiting myself to only physical media might force me to listen more consciously”. This fired my inner engines. As an…