Please take some time today to read through this interview with musical innovator / pioneer / rule maker Brian Eno. He's kind of like the antithesis of Steve Albini in that he typically has something positive to say. His insight on why albums are still a viable packaging of music is put perfectly, as is his take on the differences in musical mediums to intake your music. I particularly enjoyed this bit:

I think we're sort of deep in the grid period of making music-- well, we're probably emerging from it a little bit now, I would say. You know how eras always have a sound to them and you don't realize it until the era has gone? I remember when in the early days of rock'n'roll, when everything sounded totally different, all amazing and blah blah blah blah blah. Now you can play me one second of any record from that time, and I'll say "1959" or "1961." I can hear precisely. It's like it has a huge date stamp on it. And I think we're all capable of doing that. You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I think one of the things that's going to be nauseatingly characteristic about so much music of now is its glossy production values and its griddedness, the tightness of the way everything is locked together.