A SHARP DOSE OF HUMAN NATURE
Though it’s virtually impossible to deduce when the first proper ‘album’ came out – historians get pretty subjective when it comes to the grinding minutia of timelines, classification and so forth – 1948 was a huge year for longform music releases, when Columbia Records debuted the iconic 33RPM 12-inch LP. Capable of holding a then-revolutionary 52 minutes of audio, the LP format quickly became the norm for burgeoning rock and pop acts.
Seven decades later, and – no shit – a great deal has changed in the music industry. We moved from vinyl to cassette, to CD, to MP3, somehow back to vinyl (thanks, hipsters) and finally to streaming as our favourite way to chew through
