Veterans, analysts, ‘futurists’: experts in the modern music business are queuing up to conclusively tell us why the album is dying. 

This is the quick and dirty generation, they reason, a hive-mind of frenetic consumption that has neither the time nor inclination to allow beauty the patience it requires to unfurl. Kids today! They’re too busy, too distracted, too demanding to appreciate nice things.

It’s straight-forward to point out such a problem; that’s why problem pointer-outers are ten a ...