This is a crucial time in the history of recorded music. This is a crucial time for the rock album as a concept, as a collection of ideas, of songs, as a cohesive whole. that is a statement of intent, capturing a moment, capturing a point in time, something that can be held in your hand, turned around and studied while you are listening, a vinyl cover, a CD cover, even the book seems threatened at the moment.

There seems to be four types of album: albums which are bad, albums which are ok, albums which are good... continue reading