"There is rhythm in everything"

"A constant theme of this column has been nostalgia, not so much for music itself, but for ways of listening to it: the besieged sense that there was once a proper way to approach music, and that this is vanishing, scorched by technological novelty. I’m not very sympathetic: I loved listening to music when I was 20, but I don’t remember feeling that the ecosystem of cassettes and record stores and newsprint music writing was a particular paradise. I think I just loved being 20."