b'FEATUREALBUM APPRECIATIONLewis Capaldi:Unreal to have finally released my debut album this year & find out that not everyone hates it! On the whole Im very proud of it, althoughTop 10 best-selling I wont lie theres probably a fewalbums of all timestinkers on there, but Im only human. Hope you dont hate it but if you do dont worry, its only mySource: Wikipedialifes work.UK album 300X30: My Life As A Playlist, released on 22 March 2019.Albums remain popular in the UK. In 2018, 143m albums were either streamed, purchased or downloaded, representing a 6 percent rise on the year before.To prove the point, the UKs second National Album Day will be honoured with events and activities on Saturday 12 October 2019 to celebrate the UKs love for the album and the craft that goes into making this culturally significant body of Technology changed the ingrained musicwork.culture of listening to an album in its entirety and our attention spans got shorter. The theme, Dont Skip, follows the notion that to truly discover the joy of an album -MahaliaAccording to Apple Music, the criteria for theboth new and classic - you need to listenIve been an album girl ever since I was body of work to be considered an album, isto an album, as a complete body of work.a kid. Ive always been more interested in a seven or more tracks OR one to six tracksIn the old days of album creation, track40 minute listen over a 4 minute one. I thinkMark Ronsonwith a running time in excess of 30 minutes. sequencing was a serious matter, taking theit came from the way my parents used toThe other day I was feeling down, wandering through Compare Kanye Wests Ye album with sevenlistener on an aural journey. If it wasnt theplay music around the house and put onBrooklyn with no direction home, and I happened across tracks, 23m 41s in length versus Drakesartist as part of their own artistic storytellingdifferent albums at dinner, when I really gotthe WFMU record fair. I spent A LOT of my 20s in record into listening to full projects whilst eatingfairs, but hadnt been to one in a while. Instantly the lengthy 89m 73s double album, Scorpion,(or contract), it would be the record exectogether and talking about our days. I foundsight of all the records, mostly in bins, some tacked onto with 25 tracks. Both albums sold well onwho would decide the order of the songs. it comforting then and I still do now.make-shift cardboard dividers, lifted my entire mood. The both sides of the Atlantic. I see myself as an album artist, which ininfinite possibility of stumbling across some random 60s Whether youre a cherry-picker or a fullmy world means timeless music that youpsych record or a rare soul record I had never heard of There could be a case for saying that less islength long-player listener, one elementdont skip past. I want to make whole piecesfelt so invigorating. All the dealers with their crazy, wildly of work that other little girls like me findnerdy knowledge. This community of people who existed more. The Guinness World Records websiteholds true. Each track has involved,comfort in listening to; a 40 to 60 minutearound this one thingthe album. I was so happy to be reports that the digital album with the mostcreativity, skill, technique and a thoughtdreamland where they can be away from thea part of that. The album has brought me pure joy since songs is a bloated 298 tracks, and wasprocess; it deserves the chance to be heard,world. Streaming has changed everything. II was old enough to remember. I dont think it will ever achieved by The Pocket Gods with their again and again. Dont skip it. want the kids younger than me to feel aboutstop doing that.albums how I did.28 SEPTEMBER 2019 HEYMUSIC.COM 29'