Out With the New, In With the Old

What's behind the retro-tech renaissance?

- By Hayley Peppin

There's so much noise in the world right now, it's hard to hear what fulfills us.

Millions of songs are just a tap away on music streamers, rendering each new tune as (ahem) forgettable as the next, while TikTok is influencing the charts with viral hits that come and go as quickly as micro fashion trends. And we're losing our ability to connect over our favourite artists while being, well, disconnected (in the online sense, that is). Everything's digital, everything's accessible, and we've got nothing to physically show for our preferences or identity. Is it any surprise we're breaking up with our phones—or at least taking a break from them—and getting back to analogue basics?