People have been asking me: why didn't you release an Album? Why and What is an "EP"... I am not going to say, "Because Thom Yorke told me to," But, he does agree it is the future. Read Below:
Short-Player
The album is dying, dead, a skeleton, a ghost—you’ve read the trend pieces, and so have most musicians. The ones I know have been talking about what the new life might look like. (There is the enormous matter of what we will all get paid for the songs streaming over the Internet, but put that elephant in your pocket for a second.) What if artists just released EPs and singles every few months, instead of full albums every few years? Thom Yorke is thinking about it.
Will the R.I.A.A. and major labels see the money in the slices, or will they keep pining for cake? Are they hoping for another lottery ticket like the compact disk, which eventually enabled retailers to push the price point close to twenty dollars? The price point for most kids now is zero, so this decision will be made without the R.I.A.A.’s consent. For listeners, a future of short works is almost surely a positive thing. In this model, there’s no need to pad an eighty-minute
piece of plastic with filler, and frequent releases keep artists and fans more firmly connected. There’s also nothing about this model that would prevent anyone from releasing a full-length album should it be necessary. There is no reason the future should stop “Tusk” from happening again.
-Sasha Frere Jones, post from the New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sashafrerejones/2009/08/short-player.html
With Josh Wright, an ex-preacher who uses his sermon/lyrical skills for the good of mankind, I was able to tour the Southern California indie rock circuit. With his band ‘Eight Minutes to Twilight,’ I played keys and drums and met more authentic and talented musicians than I thought could exist in southern California. You can hear “Collision” by ‘Eight Minutes to Twilight’ here
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