![]() With streaming, he says: “If I didn’t gel with an album or an artist’s work at first, I tended not to go back to it.” But he realised that a lot of his all-time favourite albums were ones that grew on him over time. A Bristol-based musician and audio engineer, Shakespeare recently deleted his streaming accounts and bought a used iPod on eBay for £40. “With streaming, things were starting to become quite throwaway and disposable,” says Finlay Shakespeare. ![]() So she cut off her Spotify service, and later, Apple Music too, to focus on making her listening more “home-based” and less of a background experience. ![]() “I decided that having music be this tool to an experience instead of an experience itself was not something I was into,” she reflects. It wasn’t just passive listening, but a utilitarian approach to music that felt like a creation of the streaming environment. ![]() “ Using music, rather than having it be its own experience … What kind of music am I going to use to set a mood for the day? What am I going to use to enjoy my walk? I started not really liking what that meant.” An uncomfortably familiar loop, it made her realise: she hated how music was being used in her life. She looked some more, through playlist after playlist. ![]() Tasked with choosing the day’s soundtrack, she opened Spotify, then flicked and flicked, endlessly searching for something to play. M eg Lethem was working at her bakery job one morning in Boston when she had an epiphany. ![]()
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