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...look at some LP covers from the 70s and 80s, there is some gorgeous artwork,” he says, whereas an MP3 file “just floats” without a visual or physical anchor...
Album art and liner notes have evolved a lot. The CD booklet is really the shrunken offspring of the vinyl LP sleeve, which was big enough to be almost a poster included with your album. It didn’t lend itself as well to belabored liner note essays or tributes—sorry Moby—but it gave artists a sumptuous amount of space to flaunt their chosen image or visual artistic vision...
...band’s big break came when Sub Pop Records, former home to such ground breaking acts as Soundgarden and Nirvana, signed the quartet. The band’s releases on the label, the Knock Knock Knock EP and their second LP, Make Up the Breakdown, have firmly established their reign as kings of Canadian punk...
Barman’s lyrics are responsible for these opposing viewpoints. It doesn’t get much more cerebral than the shout-out in “Bleeding Brain Grow” on the recent album Paullelujah!, his first LP: “Eve, Mika, RZA, Evil JD, Nasir is Osiris, and J-live, AZ, Rakim, Cormega, Cage, Mr. OC: I’m anomie...
These are gloomy times for the recording industry. There hasn't been a new packaging technology since the introduction of the CD two decades ago, which killed the LP, which had killed the 78, which had killed the player piano. And for a music company, there is nothing sadder than not being able to sell its customers a brand-new library full of music they already...