I do a lot of "reviewing" new music via the radio station, in the sense of "quickly checking out" not "writing an article." Finding good stuff is like finding needles in a haystack, but it's a biiiig haystack!
There's just a lot more records these days, period. I'm sure 99% of them are junk from any particular person's standpoint, but was it every anyone's goal to hear EVERY album released in a year?
Maybe a few thousand albums a year coming out in the 1960's, I'm sure today the number is well over a million a year (maybe several million if you include all the "bedroom artists" who self-release.)
But if 1% of a million records are good, that's 10,000 good albums in a year! More than the sum total of all albums good & bad released per year in decades past.
I can definitely believe that the 2010's decade may turn out to be one of the best . . . if you filter out all the "teenage ringtone crap."
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