A cynic might say that the trend
A cynic might say that the trend toward sweet, smooth, retro sounds was evidence of an art form losing its youth and freshness, becoming self conscious, but I don think that what happening here. Music doesn develop in a straight line. It moves in fits and starts, reactions and counterreactions, a pendulum swinging back and forth, with each generation correcting, and usually overcompensating for, the excesses of the previous one: the romantic torrents of Berlioz and Chopin replaced the cerebral, methodically structured classicism of Haydn and Clementi; punk rock sharpened its fangs to puncture the bloat of prog rock and scratch the glossy facade of disco. After the raid on Trondheim, he was assured that the carrier would stay and wait for them. When my grandfather returned to the carrier's position, he found it had beetled back to Scotland. Not having enough fuel to reach Scotland, he considered landing in Sweden, but remembered that the neutral Swedes had interned combatants in t