claim: ‘Getting hung up on the exact nature of the records is interesting, and there’s lots of technical work that can be done there, but the main take-home response there is that the trends we’ve been seeing since the 1970s are continuing and have not paused in any way,’ he said.”
evidence: Reflecting on developments in rock music at the start of the 1970s, Robert Christgau later wrote in Christgau's Record Guide : Rock Albums of the Seventies ( 1981 ) : The decade is, of course, an arbitrary schema itself—time doesn't just execute a neat turn toward the future every ten years.