i would love to hear your reasoning behind not wanting to make albums in more depth, but for me it feels like those pictures made from other pictures square by square, it doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, pieces don't need to feel empty at any time, but still, you can have n beautiful pictures and a bigger greater +1, as a bonus, with nothing to lose.
for me personally, the downside to an album is the icky feeling it gives me when listening to it, and the inevitable fruitless search for 'which of these songs i like', (which bizarely always seems to be almost none). And yet, contrarily, any one of those songs can readily become a full blown anthem of life, when found/presented in a more specialized context: such as in a motion picture, or other significant life event