music clip of the day

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Can I put on a song?

—my (20-year-old) son Luke

M83, “Midnight City” (2011)

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lagniappe

random thoughts

Having grown up with 45s and LPs, I sometimes feel a bit like folks whose first records were 78s must have felt when I was young. Listen, for instance, to Pitchfork‘s review of M83’s new album (Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming):

Well, throughout the past decade, the 30-year old Gonzalez has honored the tremendous impact of growing up during the golden age of CD buying by implicitly serving as a patron saint for those who treat the weekly trip to the record store as a pilgrimage and still covet the album as a physical proposition: His output always comes stylishly packaged, with cover art worth obsessing over and credits that need to be scoured in order to spot the guest appearances.

The “golden age of CD buying”?