Record producer Joe Boyd recorded his new album with a group of southern Albanian singers and musicians. It's a record of polyphonic Albanian music that reminds him of his rock 'n' roll youth.
Like the dot-com bust it presaged, the feeding frenzy that took place in the wake of Nirvana's success was an ill-advised search that led, in a way, to Hootie and The Blowfish. Is there a lesson here?