How we consume music. Or is it just me?

his stringent belief in only using analoge hardware puts him up there with the greatest producers of all time.

No one captures a room and a band like him IMO.

I strongly disagree with your first statement. i don't see how his distrust of digital has anything to do with his greatness. it's a side note surely?

I tend to agree with your second. I mean he does. but there are others. i get ear fatigue listening to a lot of albini stuff too.

for the record, I used to be an analogue purist... and there's something to be said for that single minded approach but really, i think it's just become a "thing" with him. jack white too. he can shut up. i understand that thing of limiting your options to focus your creativity. I do it all the time but i can't help but roll my eyes when john frusciante says things like "i only play guitars made before 1962" or whatever.

i'm much happier with liam at toerag's approach which is a sort of cheerful eccentric purity. to me their attitude is less "digital is shit" and more "hey let's make a studio where we stick strictly to a certain historical aesthetic that precludes any solid state or digital technology...why? because i like that stuff. I like the way it looks, smells, feels and sounds. "

now that i can get on board with.