We've been taking an in depth look at the album all week on Hypebot and our readers have shared some very informed opinions. Here is a small sample"
"…the
album became the major format not because the labels were greedy, but
because that was what the people wanted…People voted with their cash…It need not stay that way, but that doesn't make the artistic reasons for releasing an album any less valid." – Krzysztof Wiszniewski
"The worst
thing in the world would be for labels and artists to buy into the
doomsday prophecies of sideline commentators; the tail wagging the dog." – T.D.
"some works need to presented within these boundaries…(i.e. Dark Side of the Moon). But we are
no longer constrained to the storage space of discs…we shouldn't talk about the 'album' as if the medium was what
we cared about.- Andrew of Artists House Music
"Vinyl is the ONLY meaningful vessel remaining for album length "statements" – Stephen
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