The CD is dead, long live the CD

It was Monday night. The tea was brewed and the day’s labours duly expended. Hašek’s ‘The Good Soldier Švejk’ awaited my attention. Ildjarn-Nidhogg’s ‘Norse’ and ‘Svartfråd’ EPs were queued up for the playing on God’s own format, the humble CD. But I’d barely reclined into a chair when disaster struck. The music incongruously cut out. I instinctively reach for my phone to check the issue. After briefly chastising myself for this toxic reflex, I walked across the room, in the physical realm, to scrutinise a physical problem I am ill equipped to deal with, a fault with a real, tangible piece of hardware. In this case my Technics sound system. I scrutinised the tuner display, it stared balefully back at me. Apparently the input had switched to cassette mode of its own accord. I promptly switch it back to CD. Nothing happened. I try again. Nothing. More button pushing. More nothing. My commands unobeyed, the few levers I have to pull on exhausted, I reach for the power. The classic on-off…

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