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I am also a strong advocate of the album as an art form and I tend to go out of my way to find artists who still respect it and try to work with it, which accounts for my taste in progressive rock and symphonic metal. A lot of the bands I listen to also tend to go for concept albums which, by definition, are best listening to in the context of an album as opposed to simply individual tracks in random order.
I think radio and music videos have done the album a great disservice, simply because neither of those methods for distributing music are conducive to allowing the entire record to be played in order, bu rather only taken in small increments. I was not a music listener in the era of the record, unfortunately, so I can't really speak to that.
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