Compiling and releasing music in the long play album format is supposedly dead, according to a prominent producer struggling to finish his own album.
24-year-old producer Adam Blake who records under the name Anubis has made the claim that the album format is no longer relevant and that people are more interested in listening to singles or “streaming their own playlists”.
“Who wants to spend 40 minutes sitting down enjoying a well thought out and curated piece of music. No one, saps in the 70s wearing big headphones and flared jeans are the only people to listen to albums,” claimed Adam. “Maybe if the album somehow had a multimedia tie in and was designed so you could do something else while listening to it, then it’d work.”
“This isn’t even about my album,” he explained. “I could totally finish the album if I wanted, the issue isn’t that I’ve run out of ideas and might have to release two EPs, it’s just that I genuinely think the album is dead. And not my creativity.”
Pointing to albums which have received praise in the last few months like Slam’s Reverse Proceed Adam described that way of listening to music as an anomoly.
“How people listen to music is constantly changing, no longer do people listen to music without having a laptop in front of them to divert 70% of their attention,” he offered. “These days if you were to give an album 100% of your attention you’d probably get knocked off your fixie or screw up your workout.”
“So that’s why I’m not bothering making an involved listening experience that commands people’s full attention,” insisted Adam. “There’s no point in trying to write an album cause people won’t listen to it, even though I totally have a full album and not three quarters of unfinished tracks.”
“If I had a double album’s worth of material I’d probably release it sure, but I don’t. And the album is dead anyway,” he added.
According to experts, this is the fifty millionth time in the history of recorded music that the album has been declared dead by someone.
“Normally it’s broadsheet journalists who do actually love albums but are trying to create a false dichotomy with the classic format and a burgeoning listening tool like Spotify or Youtube playlists for the purposes of selling newspapers,” explained an industry expert. “Which, for the record, are also dead. Nobody reads newspapers anymore.”
