Stereo Skyline featured on AltPress.com

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Noticed your iPod feeling a little lighter than usual lately? That's probably because so many of the albums you've been loading onto it have fewer songs than what we’ve traditionally come to expect from full-length releases. A wide range of artists including NEVER SHOUT NEVER, HEY MONDAY, FOREVER THE SICKEST KIDS, STEREO SKYLINE, SEMI PRECIOUS WEAPONS, NEON TREES and even LADY GAGA have all put out recent albums with less than the industry standard of 12 or 13 songs--many barely cracking eight tracks. So what's going on here? Have bands run out of ideas or are they accounting for the world’s diminishing attention span?
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So what does this mean for the album? Is it an endangered species in favor of a singles-only scene? STEREO SKYLINE frontman KEVIN BARD says many bands already write their albums that way, even if it’s unintentional. “Some bands don't write albums. Some write a bunch of songs that are thrown on an album,” he says. “I think some bands are 'singles' bands, which isn't bad, and some are 'album' bands.” He thinks that shorter albums will help let those "singles" bands focus more on quality than quantity. “[Shorter albums]give them a chance to spend time on all their songs.”
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