

So is randomly buying LPs hoping that at least one of them will become your new favorite album, only to be functionally broke throughout the entire duration of your 20’s. A quick aside, I don’t harbor the same animosities about the word ‘algorithm’ like other people seem to. Like many people in the streaming era, I found one of their songs from some sort of algorithm. I’m certain it was simply in the immediate background of all the other “post rock” “content” I was listening to at the time of its release, in 2005. American Analog Set wasn’t on my listening radar, but the band itself was. I discovered the album 12 years after its release. So then I was going to wait until the 20th anniversary, but then I got impatient. I was going to wait until the 15th anniversary of American Analog Set’s final album, “Set Free”, to write this essay.
