An old fuddy duddy rants about modern music

 I put on some music while working the other day. First I put on an album by State Azure called Mirror Infinite, which was very ambient and pretty and made me feel depressed. Then I listened to a recent album by Goldmund, which was also very ambient and pretty and made me feel depressed. Finally I put on some music by Manuel Gottsching and kept that on for the rest of the afternoon.

To find anything worth listening to, you have to jump back in time 40 or 50 years. At the risk of sounding like an old fart, modern music is vapid and repetitive and more concerned with atmosphere than substance. State Azure is the closest thing to what I like coming out of current musical platforms (Bandcamp, Soundcloud), yet his best stuff is his cover versions of older artists like Tangerine Dream and Jan Hammer.

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