I've always wanted to release an album of music I wrote but whenever I write a half decent song I just really feel the need to release it and put it right out there for immediate gratification. I'm wondering your thoughts on whether albums are actually antiquated and what I do now, which is basically the same as what you do now, might be a better strategy.
i think albums are antiquated, and i think if you want content of that length there is no need to restrict yourself to a series of songs. tell the story. use music, pictures, scenes, everything combined. tell a story, even a musical story. but if it's really all just songs then just let the songs be songs. and if they really are that combined then let them combine more into a stew in which case it would not be an album it would be a musical story. an album (a list of songs) seems like an unhappy middle ground between songs and a movie/story/musical . but i think many many people may disagree with me, and many people still think about albums. i'm probably not a valid opinion here because i have never listened to music that way, and to my surprise i've never found an album that even feels like the songs are in the right order. i think the 'right' order of songs probably changes from day to day. ALSO, another thing i just thought of, if a song is really really good, then i think the 'right' order for that song would be just that song many times in a row