The reissue racket: how many more ‘classic’ albums will be repackaged?

Mediocre records such as Interpol’s Our Love to Admire used to be forgotten. So, what’s with all the commemorative box sets? Related: CD: Interpol, Our Love to Admire There has been a lot of talk in recent years about whether musical progress is still possible in a world where the past is always there, available. Have we come to some cul-de-sac of history, where genres and albums blend into a big George’s Marvellous Medicine of brown, gloopy nothingness? Continue reading...