"Used To Be", by Beach House. A virtual seven-inch single appears as if from out of nowhere. It has a virtual "A" side, a virtual "B" side, and a virtual picture sleeve. (It cost actual money.)
I like that music no longer sees itself as limited, as was the case in the period between the demise of the vinyl single and the rise of the blog, to the dull and stifling cycle of the long-playing compact disc. Beach House have written a (in fact, yet another) fantastic song. Why should we, and for that matter they, have to wait for months to be able to hear and/or buy it?
Bonus: if you go here, you can watch them performing the very same song, live, surrounded by rocky Sydney coastline, using just voice, acoustic guitar, foot on bucket, and tambourine.
