“Vinyl records are beautiful and warm in a way no other format can compare.”
“The experience of bonding with an album on vinyl is infinitely more memorable than a digital introduction because of the record’s physicality and contextual weight. You get to sit down with a large piece of artwork, get lost in the text, smell the cardboard, and take in a thoughtfully curated set of songs from start to finish.
It’s more active and less passive. Unless you want to get up and move the needle, you’re most likely going to experience the album in its full sequence, and with an intentional presence that is lost in the age of streaming and clicking. That is what I love about the memories that emanate from my favorite vinyl records. They are memories that last.
I was around 17 when I first discovered my parents’ record collection. I was going through a break-up as well as a phase of general withdrawal and existential loneliness, and discovered Joni Mitchell’s Song to a Seagull right when I needed it most.
Through listening to her lyrics and crystal clear vocals, it felt so soothing to be universally connected and simultaneously alone in this place of musical discovery. “I Had A King,” “Cactus Tree,” and the title track “Song to a Seagull” were the quiet anthems of my teenage years.”
—Megan Keely
Megan Keely’s new full-length release, Bloom is in stores now—on vinyl.
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