
My guesses about the future are almost always wrong, and here's one of them: I always thought that digital music would lead to big changes in how albums were constructed. I figured that bands that stuck to a pop or rock sound would go mostly with singles and more frequent, smaller releases, and that full albums would be longer, would be either more conceptual or spottier (the 'great singles with filler' albums) and be a wide variation of musical styles. But 2011 has produced a bunch of fantastic albums that are none of those things. They stick to [...]