It’s official. I no longer buy albums. It’s over man. Now I buy tracks off albums and if I am wowed enough will gadate to a full length album. And why should I? Though there might be exceptions -I am sure I will be buying the new Vampire Weekend album, I pick and choose.
I bought three Rated R tracks, streamed it, and passed on the rest. Streamed Glee and passed. Streamed the new Chris Brown and passed. The reason Pitchfork can’t get out of their indie mindset -I mean besides it being their niche, is because they are essentially an lbum idiom. The album review is the currency.
Here at Rock NYC it is less true. Faves like Love Grenades and Shinobi Ninja haven’t even released an LP yet (I wrote EP iinitially: thanks Michael Shane at Gorgeous PR for catching my error), Love Via Dance Machine don’t even have a physical EP available. If all of Animal Collective’s album was as good as “What Do I Want? Sky” I’d happily join the rah-rahing crowd and as good as Dirty Projector’s album was (and it was brilliant) Solange Knowles cover of “Stillness Is The Move” was better.
Dance works as EPs. It functions best on stuff like the Tiesto remix, his album was kinda lame, but released yesterday the remixed “Escape Me” is the real deal.
This means popular music albums can’t get away with the killer plus filler tricks of youre. I can’t quite how rap albums were ruined by “”skits” in the 90s. It was endemic. The hip hop artists would have been better off releasing 30 minute CDs… The new Eminem is filled with skits and guess what? I aint buying it and I love Eminem.
Motown was a singles medium, the Brit Invasion of the sixties was a singles medium, punk was a singles medium. Posting a blog (where you are trying to get on google as often as possible) is a blurb writing form. It took me months to figure out that less is more.
So now I am going to do what all us bloggers should: cut it short….