Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.
Having a successful first album is one thing, but a successful third is another.
The second album is the hardest to write. It's nothing like the first album.
Apple, iTunes, and streaming services have made the single a more easy thing to access. What that's done has made the album as a collection of songs almost meaningless. But an album that has a concept or story or reason to be an album, if anything, has more meaning now than it ever has.
Good short-story collections, like good record albums, are almost always hit-and-miss affairs - successful if they include three or four great tracks, wildly successful if they have five. And that's as it should be.
I've probably written about three albums that no one will ever hear.
Albums are chapters. They're part of a story.
A band's first album's usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.
All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story.
A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.
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