Listening More Slowly

Why I've been returning to physical records and tapes

I’ve been enjoying an anachronistic activity lately: Listening to music at home, I’ve been playing CDs and tapes by default.

Look, I’m not a disgruntled Gen X’er stubbornly clinging to analog formats. I was an early adopter of digital music and even worked as a playlist curator for the world’s biggest audio streaming service.

In fact, I used to think of …