VMP Magazine

Now more than ever, vinyl is making a comeback. It hadn’t ever really left, with collectors around the globe keeping the wax alive between plastic sleeves, delicately rotating records across setups curated just as carefully as the vinyl itself. Still, the music format had never quite experienced the kind of explosion it’s experiencing now. While it remained the governing form of music for nearly a century, cassettes and CDs overcame vinyl in sales as we entered the late 1980s. For a while, it seemed as though vinyl was simply at its end – one of the few physical reminders that music wasn’t just an auditory experience, but a tactile one, too.