The essay I opened this post with last year was about how streaming services make it feel like you’re never going to keep up with the endless stream of new music, that because we’re aware of every new album drop — thanks to the “What’s New” tab on our streaming service of choice — it feels like there’s always something you’re missing out on, and that it feels hard to know exactly what is the best or what you might have missed. I didn’t realize how much I would feel that until this year, when…
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