There was a feeling of slow courtship with a song or album, compared to current days of a “swipe left, swipe right” music listening experience.

Keeping up with new music can be an expensive and exhausting process. I love going to shows and hearing about new bands but sometimes it feels like you go out of town for a week and Pitchfork is predicting the second coming. Conversations morph into a bizarre form of one-up-man-ship