DRIFT Series 1 - New album, Nov 1, 2019

[purlieu]

I wasn't just referring to Riverrun, but interviews in, I think, 2008, where Karl was talking about how these days it was easy to just knock out tracks, release them online and maybe a 12", and move on, without having to tie them to an album. People were expecting it to be You Do Scribble and Bamboo and stuff. And then it just never happened, and two years later we got Barking instead.

I'm surprised it's taken this long for bands to be doing this kind of thing, though. Lots of groups, right back to the '00s, said things like "we're not doing albums anymore" and ended up... carrying on doing albums. There have been relatively few groups who've realised that, actually, the 10 track 40-60 minute album every three years isn't a restriction anymore. So yeah, we have this, and Autechre's last couple of releases, and FSOL just being baffling with all their difficult-to-classify self-released things, but most other established artists still seem to be sticking to the old-fashioned ways still.